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title: "Time approvals for Managers"
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> Macro (aura-html)

Managers and Global Approval Managers can approve team members' time in the first phase of time approvals in 7pace Timetracker for Jira. Benefits for this feature include:

- Streamlined approval process - Managers can quickly review, approve, or reject team members’ timesheets directly within Jira, reducing administrative overhead and keeping projects on track.
- Improved accuracy and accountability - By verifying worklogs before they are finalized, managers ensure time entries are accurate, leading to more reliable reporting and billing.
- Centralized team oversight - Managers gain a consolidated view of their team’s timesheets, including status indicators and filtering by person, making it easier to monitor workloads and spot issues early.
- Customizable approval periods - Organizations can define approval schedules that fit their reporting cycles, helping align timesheet reviews with payroll, invoicing, or project milestone needs.

## Verify and approve time

![Approval Periods function opened in 7pace.](media://75afeba6-ec7c-4dbf-b02d-698ab1651d7b)

After team members create worklogs in 7pace Timetracker for Jira, managers can:

- View time for team members
- Approve or reject time
- Check each team member’s timesheet status
- Check the user’s capacity from BigPicture (if the BigPicture integration is turned on) displayed next to a user’s name, along with a warning icon when capacity is too low or too high, and color-coded cells:
  - yellow - below or above capacity (even if capacity was 0)
  - green - the capacity is OK
  - gray - capacity is 0.
    The capacity can be changed only in BigPicture - not in 7pace.
- Lock/Unlock period
- Select the Options icon in a period’s header to:
  - Open the period in Times Explorer
  - Export period - after selecting this option, you can download an XLSX file with the period data.

Managers use the following steps to review and verify time:

1. In the left-hand panel of any view, expand **Apps** and click **7pace Timetracker**.
  Or
2. Within any Space, if you have added the **7pace Timetracker** tab, click the tab to open the 7pace app.
3. Click **Approval Periods**.
4. Expand the Approval period you want to manage. Here, Managers see a summary of the number of timesheets that require approval. Capacity
5. You can open a a sheet with preview of logged time by clicking the icon next to a specific person’s line:
6. To view the timesheet for a user in the Times Explorer, click **Open in Times Explorer**.
7. To approve or reject time, click the thumbs-up or thumbs-down button on the right-hand side.

> 📝 Note that managers can use the **Filter**, which includes the **Search person** function to view timesheets for specific team members.