Job Sheets overview

Job Sheet panel

The Job Sheets section in TimeCache is the long-term storage area for your time and expense data. This is where the data resides after you have posted it from the Daily Log.

There is one Job Sheet for each project/matter you track (but you can only view one at a time). The Job Sheet shows the client and project name at the top of the screen. If you need more space for client names, you can move the project label and text by moving a drag handle that appears just to the left of the label when you move your mouse between the window's title bar and its list.

The main part of the Job Sheet panel is a list of all your entries for the time you log. The list includes columns for the date, category, note, hours and charges. Below these are totals for hours and charges.

Active Daily Log entries
When you have an entry on the Daily Log for the project whose Job Sheet you're viewing, you'll see those entries at the bottom of the Job Sheet list. These active Daily Log entries are updated on the Job Sheet as they change, and they are included in Job Sheet totals, so that you have an ongoing picture of the current state of a project even as you work on it. Because these entries have not been posted to the Daily Log, they appear in grey, italic type. These entries cannot be edited or deleted as regular Job Sheet entries can be.

Alerts
If you have TimeCache Preferences set to track estimate amounts for projects, and you have set an estimate amount for a project that you are nearing, TimeCache shows a red exclamation point (!) to the right of the total charges amount to alert you that you're reaching (or have exceeded) your estimate threshold. The alert also shows if you are tracking a retainer for a project and you are over the threshold level.

Extras
On the right end of the data list is a column which indicates entries that have tax, markup rates or write-offs applied. When any of these have been applied, a "+" appears in the far-right column for that entry. Otherwise the entry's line displays a "-".

Marking entries
There is a column on the far left of the data entry list where you can mark individual entries.

Resizing columns
Job Sheet list columns can be resized by moving the mouse over the list header area until a pair of double-sided arrows appears, and then clicking and dragging. The furthest left and furthest right columns cannot be resized.

You can reset column widths to default setting by Option-double clicking the list header.