November 2024 Timesheets, Planner, Financial Manager Release Notes

Sync aggregated worklogs on Internal Issues to Jira

In preparation for the upcoming Atlassian worklog limit per Jira issue, we’re providing a method to reduce the number of worklogs that are added to Internal issues when syncing with Jira. By default, when you create a Tempo worklog, a corresponding Jira worklog is also created. You can now choose to create an aggregated Jira worklog for Tempo worklogs created for an Internal issue per day.

Tempo Global Permissions - Granular Financial Manager Permissions

You can now provide more granular access control for Financial Manager. The permissions have been separated into the following:
- Tempo Project Administrator - create, view, manage, delete all projects and modify global project settings.
- Tempo Project Manager (previously Financial Manager Access) - view, create, delete, and manage projects they own and approve project time. They can edit projects other team members own when granted the Editor role in the project.
- Tempo Project Viewer - view projects that they’ve been granted access to and approve time in those projects.
If you already have Financial Manager installed, you may want to review the global permissions granted to your users, due to the privilege and enrolment changes in the permissions.
- Existing users with app access are granted the Tempo Project Manager permission by default.
- Jira administrators are granted the Tempo Project Administrator and Tempo Project Manager permissions by default.
- Tempo Administrators require the Tempo Project Administrator permission to access Settings > Tempo Projects.
- Tempo Project Managers can no longer edit global project settings.
For more information about Financial Manager permissions, view the documentation.

Validate account when moving worklogs between issues

A new option has been added to the Logging Time settings screen: Users can move worklogs when accounts are not linked to the destination project.
This is enabled by default, allowing users to move worklogs from one issue to another, even if the new issue is in a project not linked to the current account.
Administrators can disable this feature to require users to select a new account if they try to move a worklog (or multiple worklogs) to a project not linked to the current account.

Centralized view for team- and project-level approvals

Both timesheet and project approvals are now available in My Work under the Approvals tab. This centralizes project and team-level approvals, enabling Project and Team Leads to efficiently approve hours for multiple users across various teams and projects in a single location. Project approvals are only available when Financial Manager is installed with Project Time Approval enabled.
When you view the periods, you can view both your timesheet and any project time logged for the period.
The Approval Log also shows both timesheets and project time.
If there are project approvals associated to a timesheet, Team Leads can get an overview by clicking on View project approvals.
You can still approve project time from the Project Approvals tab.

New Rejected status

Rejected timesheets are now indicated by a Rejected status in these parts of the UI:
- the new Approvals view
- the Team Approvals view
- the Approval Log
- the timesheet submission form
Please note that the Rejected status is only available in the UI; exports and APIs will continue to return the old values for rejected timesheets (either Open or Ready to Submit).

Backup approvers for project time

You can add backup approvers for projects in your project's configuration. The default approver is notified when project time needs to be approved, but any approver can approve or reject project time from the Approvals tab in either their project or in My Work. Approvers must have the Viewer role in the project.

Updated Labor Cost CSV

Other improvements

Fixed: The action button loaded indefinitely when viewing a rejected timesheet through Team Approvals.

Fixed: In rare instances, Tempo synchronized the same worklog twice with Jira, resulting in two Jira worklogs for the same Tempo worklog.
Fixed: Can’t resubmit your own timesheet if the status is Rejected.