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Timesheet approval "auto-approve" script on Data Center

Users' timesheets can be approved only manually in Tempo Timesheets, but the process can be automated. Some customers write their own script to look for an approval event when a user has submitted their timesheets, and then “auto-approve” their timesheets with the Data Center REST API .

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  1. The timesheet approval event casts an object with the following parameters:

{
  id=108, 
  userKey=beverly, 
  actorKey=john, 
  reviewerKey=john, 
  status=approved, 
  period=0121, 
  dateFrom=2021-01-01, 
  dateTo=2021-01-31, 
  periodType=BILLING, 
  periodView=PERIOD, 
  reason=Great job!, 
  workedTime=0, 
  submittedTime=0, 
  requiredTime=576000, 
  action=approve
}


2. With the Data Center REST API, you can run this POST http://localhost:8080/rest/tempo-timesheets/4/timesheet-approval

{
  "action": {
    "comment": "This is my comment.",
    "name": "approve",
    "reviewer": {
      "key": "jeanDoe"
    }
  },
  "period": {
    "dateFrom": "yyyy-MM-dd"
  },
  "user": {
    "key": "johnDoe"
  }
}


Customers also use ScriptRunner to achieve this without writing their own script - refer to our KB’s on Event listeners .