Submitting entries for approval

Once you've stopped a timer, the next step is to send it to a manager for sign-off. Until you submit, an entry sits in stopped status and isn't visible to approvers. Submitting flips it to submitted and removes the Submit and Delete actions from the row.

You can submit one entry at a time, or tick a batch and send them all at once.

Submit a single entry

Open the Time entries page from the top nav.
Find the row you want to submit. It must be in stopped status, running, submitted, approved, and locked rows don't get the Submit action.
Click the ⋯ overflow menu on the right of the row.
Pick Submit for approval.

The row's status pill changes from stopped to submitted immediately. There's no confirmation modal, one click and it's gone from your "to do" pile.

If you spot a typo after submitting, you can't edit it directly. Ask your manager to reject the entry; the rejection sends it back to stopped with the reason attached, and you can fix and resubmit.

Submit several entries at once

This is the usual flow at the end of the day or week.

On Time entries, tick the checkbox at the left of each stopped row you want to submit. Running, submitted, approved, and locked rows don't have a checkbox.
As soon as one stopped row is selected, a Submit N for approval button appears in the toolbar (the count updates as you tick more).
Click the button. There's no confirmation modal, the request goes through immediately.

A success banner shows how many entries were submitted ("Submitted 5 entries for approval."). The list refreshes; the submitted rows now show the submitted pill instead of stopped.

The "select all" checkbox in the table header selects every stopped row currently on screen.

What you can't submit

The bulk-submit endpoint silently ignores anything that isn't yours and in stopped status, running entries, already-submitted entries, approved or locked entries. The success banner tells you how many actually flipped, so if you selected 10 rows but the banner says "Submitted 7", three were already past stopped.

The single-entry submit on the row's ⋯ menu only appears on stopped rows in the first place.

A note on long-running entries

Entries that ran past your firm's threshold carry a LONG tag (8 hours by default). They're not blocked from submission, TAB doesn't refuse the request. They're worth a second look before sending, though: an 11-hour entry without context is the most common reason a manager will reject and ask for an edit.

After you submit

Every submitted entry lands on the Approvals page that managers and admins see, ordered by submission time (oldest first). If your manager rejects an entry, it returns to stopped status with their reason attached, and it shows up under Needs attention on your dashboard with the rejected by manager, resubmit label.