Manage hour types
Hour types are labels you use to define your hour entries. You can associate hour types with your hour entries.
There are two categories of hour types:
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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 note 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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| Adobe Workfront plan | Any |
| Adobe Workfront license* |
New: Standard Or Current: Plan |
| Access level | System 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 hour types for your organization at the system- and project-level.
After you define hour types at the system-level, users can define which hour types are available for specific projects or for specific users.
For more information, see the Define hour types and availability
To create hour types:
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Click the Main Menu icon
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In the left panel, click Timesheet & Hours, then click Hour Types.
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In the Hour Types section, click New Hour Type.
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In the New Hour Types dialog box, specify the following information:
table 0-row-2 1-row-2 2-row-2 3-row-2 layout-auto html-authored no-header Name Enter an hour type name that is easily recognizable in the system. Description Add 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.
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Click Create Hour Type.
The hour type is added to your Workfront system and it is activated by default.
Deactivate hour types
You can deactivate hour types if you no longer want users to associate their hours with them. Deactivating hour types hides them from anywhere in Workfront where hour types are visible.
- Built-in hour types cannot be deactivated.
- When you deactivate a project-specific Hour Type, all the time logged for that type automatically defaults to a built-in project-specific hour type. For example, time logged for a project defaults to the Project Time hour type; time logged for a task defaults to the Task Time hour type.
To deactivate an hour type:
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Click the Main Menu icon
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In the left panel, click Timesheet & Hours, then click Hour Types.
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Select the hour type you want to deactivate.
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Click More, then Deactivate.
The hour type is deactivated and users can no longer find it when logging hours.
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(Optional) To reactivate an hour type, select it in the Hour Types list, then click More > Activate.