---
key: open-a-timesheet
title: Read a timesheet
audience: staff
section: projects-tasks
routes: ["/work/time-sheets/:sheetUid/:tab?"]
permissions: ["work.timesheets.read"]
features: ["work.time-sheets"]
since: 0.0.1
updated: 0.0.1
status: published
summary: What a timesheet's page shows, where its totals and approval history are, and how to get from it to the time entries behind it.
keywords: [timesheet page, hours this week, pay period, overtime, payroll hours, time card]
related: [submit-and-approve-a-timesheet, submit-and-approve-time-entries, log-time, find-your-way-around-a-record]
---

In the sidebar, open **Projects & Tasks**, then **Time & Mileage**, then **Timesheets**, and select a row. The page address is `/work/time-sheets/` followed by the timesheet and the tab you are on. It is laid out like every record page (see [[find-your-way-around-a-record]]), with two tabs.

A timesheet adds up one person's time entries for one pay period. To change hours, change the time entries; the timesheet follows.

## What you see

- The summary strip: the **Team Member**, the **Period**, the **Total Time** (with overtime beside it) and the number of **Entries**.
- The details panel on the left:
  - **Timesheet details**: **Team member**, **Period**, **Status**, **Timezone**, **Created** and **Updated**.
  - **Totals**: **Rounded minutes**, **Regular minutes**, **Overtime minutes** and **Billable minutes**.
  - **Approval trail**: when it was **Submitted**, **Approved**, **Rejected** and **Locked**, the **Rejection reason**, and the entry count.

## The tabs

- **Overview**:
  - **Submission readiness** lists anything stopping a submit, such as a timer still running.
  - **Workflow actions** holds the buttons for the current status: **Submit** (or **Resubmit**), **Approve**, **Reject**, **Lock** and **Reopen** ([[submit-and-approve-a-timesheet]]).
  - **Entry preview** shows the first few entries.
- **Entries**: every time entry with its **Started**, **Ended**, **Duration** and **Status**. **Open entry** opens the time entry itself.

## The Actions menu

- **Open time entries** opens the Time Entries page filtered to this timesheet, where you fix or add entries ([[log-time]]).
- **Back to timesheets** returns to the list.

## If something looks different

- **This timesheet does not currently contain any time entries.**: nothing has been logged for this person in the period yet.
- **Approvals are disabled for this timesheet policy.**: your organization approves entries one at a time instead ([[submit-and-approve-time-entries]]).
- **Invalid timesheet link.** or **Timesheet doesn't exist.**: the link is broken or the timesheet is gone. Open it again from the list.