Recording time asserts it; approval is someone with standing agreeing it happened. The flow:
- The entry's owner submits it — from My Timesheet, a whole week at once, or entry by entry from the list. You can submit your own time; submitting for someone else takes the submit permission.
- An approver approves or rejects it. Three people have standing: the project's manager, the employee's supervisor, and anyone holding the approve permission. Approval stamps who approved, and when.
- A rejection sends the entry back to draft with a reason, which its owner sees; they correct and resubmit.
How submissions move is a company granularity setting (§9.10): at week granularity (the default), bulk submit and approve actions widen to the whole employee-week they touch — a manager approves Aisha's week, not forty separate rows. At row granularity, entries move one by one.
And if the company's approval required switch is off, submission approves the entry on the spot — small teams that trust the record over the ritual can run that way, knowingly (§9.10).