Timesheet Management LITE is a free Jira app for logging and reviewing your time - no approval workflow, but a more advanced Calendar and Timesheet view built on Jira’s own native worklogs.

Open Apps → Timesheet Management LITE from the Jira navigation. The first time you open it you may see the standard Atlassian consent screen - every user grants it once, because the app acts as you when it reads and writes your worklogs.

To use the app’s time logging into Jira work items, a Jira admin sets Timesheet Management LITE as the site’s active Time Tracking Provider (Jira Settings → Work Items → Time tracking). Only one provider can be active at a time.

Until that’s done, the Calendar and Timesheet tabs still work - it’s the work item Log work action and Work log tab that don’t appear on work items yet.

• Date and time default to the current date and the closest local hour.

• If the work item you’re logging against has a time estimate, the worklog form shows a progress bar.

• Worklogs can repeat - every day, weekdays only, or a custom schedule - and a repeat can later be changed for one occurrence, this and future occurrences, or all of them.

The worklog form opens from the Log work action in the overflow menu (the three dots at the top right of a work item) or from the Work log tab.

• Log work opens the form, similar to Jira’s native Time Tracker modal, including the live time-remaining bar when the work item has an estimate.

• The work item’s Work log tab lists every worklog on it, with add / edit / delete based on your Jira permissions.

The Calendar shows your own worklogs for one week at a time, laid out on a day-by-day timeline. Each entry shows its work item and, if you added one, its description.

• Log time: click anywhere on an empty part of the calendar. The time defaults to wherever you clicked - drag up or down first if you want to set a specific duration.

• Edit an entry: click directly on an existing worklog block to change its work item, date, time, duration, or description.

• Open a work item: click its key inside a calendar entry to open it directly in Jira, in a new tab.

• Move an entry: drag an existing worklog block to a different time or day.

• Resize an entry: drag the top or bottom edge of a block to change its start time or duration.

• Delete an entry: open it (click on it) and use the Delete button.

• Weekdays / Full week: the view defaults to weekdays only, and switches to the full week automatically if you have any Saturday/Sunday entries. You can also switch manually - your choice sticks for that week only.

• Use the Week of date picker or the ‹ › arrows to navigate between weeks.

• The Recent Work Items panel lists work items you’ve recently logged time against. Drag one onto the calendar to log time at that spot - or click the × in the panel’s header to hide it and give the calendar more room; a "Show Recent Work Items" button in the toolbar brings it back.

The Timesheet tab shows the same week as a grid, grouped by person and space (project) - one row per person + space combination, with a running total. Click a row to expand it into a day-by-day breakdown for that space’s work items.

• Within an expanded row, click any day cell to see or edit the worklogs behind it.

• Click a work item’s key to open it directly in Jira.

• Filters: Space and User. The tab opens showing just your own time. Change the filters, then press Search to run them. A small dot on the Search button means you have changed a filter that hasn’t been applied yet. Pressing Search with nothing changed re-runs the week, which is how you pick up time a colleague logged since the grid was drawn. Clear filters puts them back (Space empty, User back to you).

• Export: the Export menu above the table downloads the current report as CSV or Excel.

• Same Weekdays / Full week toggle as the Calendar tab.

• Load more: if there’s more than one page of results, a Load more button appears below the table.

• Saved Views: save your current Space/User combination with a name and an optional description (up to 10 per person). From the Saved Views menu above the table you can reapply a view, overwrite it with the current filters, or delete it (you’re asked to confirm first). You can also share a view: a shared view gets a Copy link action, and anyone on the site with the link can open it.

If you logged time against a work item before it was resolved, and it gets resolved afterward, that entry becomes a violation after the fact - the resolution-date block only checks at the moment you log time, so it can’t catch this case. Whenever you have entries like this, a Corrections tab appears (only when there’s something to fix), showing each one with the work item, the time logged, and when it was resolved. For each entry, use Replace Worklog to add a corrected entry with the right date, then confirm deleting the original - or just delete it outright.

The worklog form also warns you up front if you’re about to log time against a work item that’s already resolved, so most cases are caught before they happen.

Jira admins and Timesheet Management admins configure LITE from the app’s own Settings tab (shown only to those users). The old Jira Settings → Apps → Timesheet Management LITE Settings page now just points there.

• Resolution date enforcement - Prevent logging work after a work item’s resolution date blocks any worklog from being logged on a work item after it’s resolved. It can’t catch every case: time logged while the item is still open, then resolved afterward, becomes a violation after the fact (the Corrections tab catches those). Don’t flag worklogs before a date lets you ignore backlog from before you turned enforcement on, so the Corrections tab isn’t flooded with old history.

• Week boundaries - which day the week starts on, used across the Calendar and Timesheet tabs.

• Weekends - which days count as your weekend. How many you can pick follows Jira’s own working week. Used by every Weekdays / Full week toggle and the “Weekdays only” repeat preset.

• Timesheet Management admins (Jira admins only) - give settings access, site-wide visibility of flagged worklogs in the Corrections tab, and the digest email to specific users or whole Jira groups, not just site admins.

• Email digests (Jira admins only) - a daily summary email, on working days, whenever a worklog has been logged after its work item’s resolution date. Jira sends it from a placeholder work item you nominate; there’s no external email service. Site admins and everyone on the Timesheet Management admins list receive it.

• Error log (Jira admins only) - a troubleshooting log of errors any user has hit while using the app.

Every worklog you log through LITE is a completely ordinary, native Jira worklog - the same data you’d see if you logged it through Jira directly. LITE doesn’t keep a separate copy of your worklogs; Jira itself is the only place that data lives. It does persist a few small things of its own: site settings (including the Timesheet Management admins list and the email-digest configuration), saved Timesheet-tab filter views (which can include other users’ names if you save a filter with other people selected, and which are private unless you share one), records that link repeating worklogs together, a short-lived cache of non-personal site configuration, and a troubleshooting error log. See the Privacy Policy for full details on what LITE itself stores, the Terms of Service for how the app is licensed and supported, and the Data Processing Addendum for sub-processor and international transfer details.