Creating Automatic Rules for Lunch/Meal breaks

In some situations you may want to automatically round(up/down) / apply a value to a lunch break on your timesheet.

Restrictions

This facility is only available to clients who have purchased the Time Patterns and Filters Module.

Adding the Filter

To add a filter, you'll need to go in to edit a placement and click across to the Filters tab, from here you can add or remove preset filters.

For more information see "The Filters TAB" section in the "Maintaining Placements" wiki page here - Maintaining Placements

Exact Value Meal Break + Recalculate

This filter will ensure break durations on a timesheet are exactly a specified number of minutes.

The 'Applicable When' field remains blank, insert the amount of minutes you would like to ensure is specified on the timesheet in the third text field.

Minimum Value Filter + Recalculate

This filter ensures durations entered on a timesheet are not below a certain value for the following 'field' options.

Hours Claimed
Meal Break

In both cases, the Recalculate Filter will need to be applied for the correct calculation of hours claimed on each shift. Without this filter, your initial filters will not calculate correctly and may give you the wrong value.