Tempo Ideas

Currently, when a period is locked or closed in Tempo (via Period Management, Scheduler, or after submission), the restriction only applies to worklog-related actions such as creating, editing, or deleting worklogs.

However, users and reviewers are still able to:

• Submit timesheets

• Approve timesheets

• Reject timesheets

• Re-open timesheets

even after the period has been marked as locked/closed.

For organizations using locked periods as part of financial controls, compliance, payroll validation, and reporting governance, this creates confusion because a “locked” period is generally expected to prevent any further workflow actions or state changes.

Requested Enhancement:
Provide an option/configuration in Tempo to fully freeze timesheet workflow actions once a period is locked or closed.

Expected Behaviour:
Once a period is locked/closed:

• No further submissions should be allowed

• No approvals/rejections should be allowed

• Timesheets should not be re-openable

• Workflow states should remain immutable unless the period is explicitly unlocked by an administrator

Suggested Improvement:
Introduce an admin-level configuration, such as:
“Restrict all timesheet workflow actions after period lock”

This would help organizations maintain stronger audit control, reporting consistency, and financial governance.