Manage hour types

Last update: May 6, 2025

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Hour types are labels you use to define your hour entries. You can associate hour types with your hour entries.

There are two sets of hour types:

  • Project Specific Hour Types: This is time logged on projects, tasks, and issues. Project-specific hour types can be associated with hour entries anywhere in Adobe Workfront where you can log time for projects, tasks, and issues.

    When logging time in Workfront, the project-specific hour types that are available depend on configuration options set at the system, project, and user levels.

    The following default project-specific hour types are always available:

    • Project Time
    • Task Time
    • Issue Time

    The Workfront administrator determines which project-specific hour types are made available, as described in Define hour types and availability.

    NOTE
    If you enable any project-specific hour types in your Workfront system, at least one project-specific hour type must be enabled on each project in your system. You cannot enable a project-specific hour type at the system level and have no project-specific hour types available at the project level.

  • General Hour Types: General hours cannot be associated with a project, task, or issue, and are logged directly into a timesheet.

For information about logging hours and associating them with hour types, see Log time.

Access requirements

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You must have the following access to perform the steps in this article:

Adobe Workfront planAny
Adobe Workfront license

New: Standard

Or

Current: Plan

Access level configurationsSystem Administrator

For more detail about the information in this table, see Access requirements in Workfront documentation.

Built-in hour types

Workfront comes with a set of built-in hour types. These hour types can’t be edited or hidden.

The hour types that come with Workfront are:

  • Sick Time: A general hour type that can’t be associated with hour entries on a project, task, or issue. Sick Time hours can’t be counted as revenue.
  • Vacation Time: A general hour type that can’t be associated with hour entries on a project, task, or issue. Vacation Time can’t be counted as revenue.
  • General Overhead: A general hour type that can’t be associated with hour entries on a project, task, or issue. It can count as revenue in your project planning process.
  • Project Time: A general hour type that can only be associated with hour entries on a project.
  • Task Time: A general hour type that can only be associated with hour entries on a task.
  • Issue Time: A general hour type that can only be associated with hour entries on an issue.

Create hour types

As a Workfront administrator, you can create new hour types for your organization on both system and project levels. Afterward, users can define which hour types are available for specific projects and users. For more information, see the Define hour types and availability

To create new hour types:

  1. Click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-right corner of Adobe Workfront, or (if available), click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-left corner, then click Setup Setup icon .

  2. In the left panel, click Timesheet & Hours, then click Hour Types.

  3. In the Hour Types section, click + New Hour Type.

  4. In the New Hour Types dialog box, specify the following information:

    NameEnter an hour type name that is easily recognizable in the system.
    DescriptionAdd a description for your hour type.
    Scope

    Select whether the hour type is a general or project-specific hour type in the Scope drop-down menu.

    General hour types are visible only in timesheets and can't be associated with projects, tasks, or issues.

    IMPORTANT: If you have a custom Hour Type that is Project Specific and you change it to General, all the existing Task, Issues and Project hours are set to their system default types.

    Count As Revenue

    Select this option if you want the hour entry associated with this hour type to affect your revenue calculations.

    Sick Time and Vacation Time can't be counted as revenue.

    NOTE

    When general hour types are counted as revenue, the Cost rate associated with the profile of the user logging the time is associated with the hour cost.

  5. Click Create Hour Type.