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Tempo Team Permissions

You need to have Tempo Team Administrator or Manage Team permissions (see below) to grant Tempo Team permissions and create permission roles. By default, team leads have the Manage Team permission for their own team.

Tempo Team permissions are used to define how teams view and work with time records, timesheets, and plans. These permissions are applied to Permissions Roles within each team, available on each team's Permissions page. The Team Lead and Member permission roles are created for each team by default. 

You can create permission roles for whatever purpose you need, such as giving other managers or administrators the ability to approve timesheets or plans, or giving a senior team member the same permissions as the team lead to have a backup. It's also easy to add people to - or remove people from - an existing permission role.

If you need permissions for all or multiple teams in your organization, use the Full-access or multi-team permission roles.

Watch this video to see how to set up team permissions:

To grant Team permissions:

  1. Make sure you have Tempo Team Administrator permissions, or have Manage Team permissions for the respective team (Team Leads have this permission by default for their own team).

  2. Select Teams in the Tempo sidebar.

  3. From the Teams view, select the team for which you want to grant permissions.

  4. The team's Overview is displayed: click Permissions in the upper-right. If you don't see this option, click More.

  5. For existing permission roles (such as Member), select the permissions you want to grant to the users in this role, and click Save. You can also add users to, or remove users from, this permission role.

  6. To create a permission role, click +Add permission role, select the permissions for the role, and add the desired users to it - see Creating Team Permission Roles for information.

Team Permission

Description

Who should have this permission?

Notes

Tempo Team Administrator

  • Permission to create, configure, and delete teams, manage team permissions, and browse teams.

  • Permission to create, configure, and delete programs (groups of teams) and iterations for programs and to plan time for teams and team members.

Managers, administrators, HR

This is a Tempo Global permission.

Team Lead role

  • Browse Team permission (see below) for the team that you lead.

  • Approve Timesheet permission (see below) for the team that you lead.

  • Plan Time permission (see below) for the team that you lead.

  • Permission to configure your team.

  • Assign a role to team members.

Department or team managers, project team leads

Tempo Team administrators can assign a Team Lead when they create a team, or edit the Team Lead role later on.

The Team Lead role is not sufficient for moving employees between workload or holiday schemes or for changing the Team Lead.

View Worklogs

Permission to view all worklogs for the team members of the respective teams.

This will give you access to the Timesheet in My Work for the respective team members. 

Team leads, managers, administrators, HR

This permission is available only when Tempo Timesheets is installed.

You can see the worklogs of Jira users, regardless of their status: active, inactive, or deleted.

Manage Worklogs

Permission to create, edit, and delete worklogs for the members of the respective teams and/or users. 

Team leads, managers, administrators, HR

This permission is available only when Tempo Timesheets is installed.

Users with this permission cannot make changes to worklogs in user timesheets after the Scheduler has closed the period. They must grant a grace period to that team member so that they can make the changes themselves.

Approve Timesheets

Permission to:

  • Review and approve or reject timesheets for the members of the respective team.

  • Grant grace periods to team members to complete their timesheets after the Scheduler has closed a period.

  • View the team timesheet and reports.

  • View Tempo team and account gadgets

Team leads, managers, administrators, HR

  • This permission is available only when Tempo Timesheets is installed.

  • Users with this permission cannot approve their own timesheets, even if they are members on their own team. If there are no Reviewers available for you, a Tempo Team admin will need to add you to a team with an approver, or add an approver to your team by granting them the Approve Timesheets permission, such as with a specific permission role for your team.

  • When you select this permission, the View Worklogs permission is automatically selected so you can view the timesheets that you're approving!

  • Users with this permission cannot make changes to worklogs in user timesheets after the Scheduler has closed the period. They must grant a grace period to that team member so that they can make the changes themselves.

  • If you're not using the Scheduler, and the timesheet period is Open for approvers, users with this permission can still make changes to their team members' timesheets or approve them.

View Plans

Permission to view all plans for all team members of the respective team.

  • Tempo Planner users, such as other team members

  • Team leads, managers, administrators, HR

This permission is available only when Tempo Planner is installed, which helps optimize individual and team capacity and project planning

Manage Plans

Permission to create, edit, and delete team plans and plans for members of the respective team.

Team leads, resource or department managers

This permission is available only when Tempo Planner is installed.

Approve Plans

Permission to review and approve or reject plans for the members of the respective team.

Team leads, resource or department managers

  • This permission is available only when Tempo Planner is installed.

  • If Enable Plan Approval is off in Tempo Settings, the Approve Plans permission is not available.

  • When you select the Approve Plans permission, the View Plans permission is also automatically selected so you can view the plans you're approving!

Manage Team

Permission to add members to the respective team, delete the team, edit all team settings, grant team permissions, and create, edit, and delete permission roles for the respective team.  

Team leads, team administrators, HR

View Team

Permission to view a team and its members, but not their worklogs or plans.

All Tempo users who have access to this team

This permission is always granted to all permission roles for the respective team.

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