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Reading a project's hours

Every project page opens with a bar chart of hours, then tables of tasks and people. All of it is now readable rather than merely decorative, and every number on it can be opened.

The hours chart

An hours axis. The chart has a scale, so a bar's height tells you how many hours it is. Before, a bar only told you how it compared to the busiest one.

Dated bars. Each bar says which period it covers. A week that crosses a month boundary names both months, so "Aug 31" is not silently a week that is mostly September.

Weekly or monthly. Switch with the Weekly / Monthly buttons above the chart. Projects with a monthly budget open on Monthly, because that is the period their budget is set in; everything else opens on Weekly.

The current period is marked as still running, so a part-finished week or month is not read as a drop in activity.

A budget line. Projects whose budget resets each month get a dashed threshold across the monthly view labeled Monthly budget, and any month over it is drawn in red. Hovering a bar shows hours spent and hours remaining against that month's allowance.

The month you are looking at is outlined, so you can tell which bar the tables underneath are describing. The chart still shows every month — comparing one month to the others is most of the point.

Click a bar to show that week or month in the figures and tables below. The range control switches to those dates; pick All time to go back.

Moving between months

Projects with a monthly budget open on the current month, with Previous month and Next month either side and Return to this month once you have left it. You cannot walk into the future.

Projects on a fixed budget open on all time, because defaulting them to one month would hide most of their history behind an arrow.

Clicking a figure

Anything with a dotted underline opens what it is made of. On this page that is every figure:

FigureOpens
Total hoursThe detailed time report for the project and the range on screen
Billable / Non-billableThe same report, narrowed to that half
Budget remainingThe entries counted against the budget — the month, for a budget that resets monthly
Internal costs → TimeThe detailed time report
Internal costs → ExpensesThe expense report, narrowed to this project
InvoicedThe Invoices tab on this page
Uninvoiced, New invoiceInvoices → Uninvoiced
A task's or person's hours, and each table's TotalThe detailed time report for exactly those entries

Clicking a figure while viewing August opens August. Clicking one under All time opens all of it — the link carries the whole range rather than leaving the report on its default month.

Opening a row

A task or a person with an arrow beside the name opens in place: click the name (or the arrow) to see who logged a task, or which tasks a person's hours went to. Each of those lines has its own hours figure, which opens that person's entries on that task. Managers also get a profile link beside each person on the Team tab.

"No task" works too. It has no id and is often the largest row on the page, so a filter that could not name it would have dropped you on an unfiltered report at exactly the moment you asked about it.

The report says what it has been narrowed to and offers Show every task to widen it again, so a drill-down is a starting point rather than a dead end. From there you can take a client report.

What the figures include

The report behind these links shows all hours in the range — open, submitted, approved and rejected alike. Approved entries are marked as such on the row. The only thing excluded is deleted entries.

If you are sending a report to a client, that is worth knowing: hours nobody has approved yet will be in it.

Who sees what

Nothing about permissions changed here. The detailed report already scoped members to their own entries and still does — a link naming somebody else is narrowed by the server regardless of what it asks for. Cost and revenue stay managers-only.

Updated 2026-10-01. Still stuck? Contact support or return to the Help Center.