The Advanced Time Reporting report helps you understand where your team's tracked effort is being spent.

For Professional Services leaders, Project Managers, and operations teams, it helps answer a practical question:

Where is our time going, and what work is consuming that effort?

Use the report to analyze total tracked time, compare billable and non-billable effort, understand who is logging time, identify the projects or tasks receiving the most effort, and investigate individual time entries.

Use Advanced Time Reporting to understand:

The report is especially useful when you need more detail than a single project or task total can provide.

Advanced Time Reporting includes the standard GUIDEreports filters, plus two additional filters designed specifically for time-entry analysis.

You can filter by:

These extra filters are especially important because the date associated with the work itself may be more useful for time analysis than the dates associated with the project or task.

For example, you could filter to:

Now the report helps answer:

How much time did this person record for this customer's work this month?

For complete shared filter behavior, see Use GUIDEreports: Filters, drilldowns, sorting, and navigation.

One of the most important distinctions in Advanced Time Reporting is the Entry Level.

Time can be recorded at different levels:

Some widgets analyze both types of time together, while others intentionally focus on one entry level.

That means two time widgets can show different totals even when they appear to describe similar work.

Always check whether the widget uses:

before comparing numbers.

Start with the high-level metrics to understand how much effort has been recorded.

Question it answers: How much tracked effort exists in the current reporting scope?

Use this as the broadest measure of tracked time.

Then use the more specific widgets to understand what contributes to that total.

Total Billable Hours and Total Non-Billable Hours separate tracked effort based on the billable value recorded on the time entry.

Use these together when you need to understand the makeup of reported effort.

A high number of non-billable hours is not automatically good or bad.

Interpret the result based on how your organization uses billable classifications.

Question it answers: How much time is recorded in the average time entry?

This metric averages recorded time across time entries.

It describes entry size rather than overall workload.

For example, two teams could record the same total hours while using very different time-entry patterns.

Time trends help answer not only how much effort exists but when it was recorded.

Time trends are based on Date Worked.

That means the report is analyzing when the work occurred, rather than simply when you happen to be viewing the report.

Use the Date Worked filter when you need a specific reporting period.

For example:

Project-based time widgets help identify where tracked effort is concentrated.

These widgets sound similar but can answer different questions.

Total Hours Worked By Project uses the broader tracked-time model.

Hours Worked by Project focuses on time logged directly at the project level.

Use the distinction when investigating whether effort is being recorded:

Task-focused widgets help identify which pieces of work consume the most tracked effort.

Use these widgets when your question is:

Which specific work is consuming the most time?

For example, a Professional Services leader might identify a task that repeatedly requires much more effort than expected and decide to investigate its process, instructions, dependencies, or scope.

The time report identifies the effort pattern. It does not establish why the work took that amount of time.

Person-based time widgets help you understand how tracked effort is distributed across the team.

Use the Time Entry Member filter when you want to focus the entire report on one person.

Time totals describe recorded effort.

They should not be treated as a standalone measure of productivity or performance.

Different team members may:

Use time reporting to understand workload and effort before drawing conclusions about performance.

Time-entry categories can help explain what kind of work is consuming effort.

This view gives more context than a simple category total.

It can include:

That makes it useful when two categories have similar time totals but very different patterns.

For example, one category might represent:

while another represents:

Those patterns may deserve different investigation.

Advanced Time Reporting uses a specialized time-entry drilldown.

The drilldown can include:

Every drilldown column header can be sorted A → Z or Z → A.

For complete field definitions, see the GUIDEreports drilldown field reference.

A summary widget tells you:

How much time?

A chart can tell you:

Where or with whom?

The drilldown tells you:

Which time entries?

For example, if one project has unusually high tracked time, you can use the drilldown to review:

This turns an aggregate number into something you can investigate.

The following is an illustrative Professional Services scenario.

A Professional Services leader is preparing for a monthly operations review.

The question is:

Where did our delivery effort go this month?

They filter:

Date Worked → This Month

This keeps the analysis focused on work that occurred during the period being reviewed.

They start with:

Now they understand the broad tracked-time picture.

They review:

One project stands out with significantly more tracked effort than the others.

They use the person-focused views and Time Entry Member filter to understand how effort was distributed across the team.

They inspect:

They discover that a particular implementation contained several task-level entries associated with the same type of work.

The report does not tell them why those tasks required more effort.

It tells them exactly where to investigate next.

These are suggested reporting practices rather than product requirements.

When you're analyzing effort for a specific reporting period, use Date Worked so the report reflects when the work occurred.

Similar-sounding time widgets can use different entry levels.

Check whether the widget represents project-level, task-level, or broader tracked time before comparing values.

A total tells you how much effort was recorded.

Use project, task, person, or category views to understand what contributed to it.

If your organization uses time-entry categories consistently, they can provide useful context for why effort is being recorded.

More logged time does not automatically mean more productivity, and fewer hours do not automatically mean less work.

Interpret time alongside:

Before comparing two projects, people, or periods, consider whether they represent similar kinds of work.

Use filters when necessary to create a more meaningful comparison.

When a time total stands out, inspect the underlying entries before changing staffing, process, or expectations.

Advanced Time Reporting includes all standard GUIDEreports filters plus:

These additional filters let you narrow the report based specifically on time-entry activity.

Date Worked is the date associated with when the reported work occurred.

Use it when analyzing time during a particular reporting period.

It narrows the report to time entries associated with a particular team member.

Project time is logged directly to a project.

Task time is logged against an individual task.

The Entry Level field in the drilldown helps distinguish them.

A time entry logged directly to a project may not be associated with an individual task.

In that case, the task-specific field does not apply.

Total Hours Worked represents broader tracked time.

Project Hours Logged specifically represents time entered directly against projects.

The widget shows task-level time whose Date Worked falls during the current week.

Yes.

Use the Time Entry Member filter to focus the report on that person's associated time entries.

Yes.

Use Total Billable Hours and Total Non-Billable Hours, and review the Billable field in the drilldown for individual entries.

Yes.

Use task-focused widgets such as Task Hours by Task or Hours Worked by Task, then investigate the relevant time entries.

Yes.

Category widgets let you compare tracked effort across available time-entry categories.

Not necessarily.

Time reporting shows recorded effort. It does not account on its own for project complexity, role differences, scope, or delivery outcome.

Use it as operational context rather than a standalone productivity measure.

Yes.

Every drilldown column header can be sorted A → Z or Z → A.

See the GUIDEreports drilldown field reference.

Review the available time widgets in the GUIDEreports widget library.

If you need a different combination of those widgets, you can build a custom GUIDEreport.