Time lock in the API
Hi - we can see the locked items inside Wrike, but I can't see a method that allows me to get/set the lock status via the API. Does this exist yet, and if so, where is it documented?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi Mike Hawkes, currently, the "Lock Time Entries" feature is not supported by our API methods. I understand why your team would need that ability, but, for the time being, it is possible to lock dates only manually from the Wrike workspace. Please let me know if you'd like us to move your post to our Product Feedback forum🙌
Lisa K. Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
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Hi, we have a custom integration for creating monthly timelog reports with specific custom fields. The custom fields are necessary in order to match the report rows to SAP financials.
The custom timelog report is generated the first of each month and works splendidly.
However, we noticed a problem with users making time entries in the past. That leaves time entries in limbo, e.g. when an employee makes time entries for April 5th on May 5th *after* we create the report on May 1st, those entries weren't included in the April report, and they won't be included in the May report, either.
So we were rather keen on including a "Lock Time Entries" function for the spaces concerned in our monthly timelog report integration in order to prevent users from making time entries in the past. We would simply have informed users to please report the forgotten hours to the project tasks in the current month.
We were quite disappointed to find out that "Lock Time Entries" isn't supported in Wrike's API methods. Would very much appreciate having it available in Wrike API.
(Sidenote: was also hoping this might have been included in the new space-level automations, but there's neither a date trigger or action for this over there. Would require a trigger for "date: 1st of month" and "repeat: monthly" and a "Lock Time Entries" action.)
Juan Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
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Hi Juan, thanks for creating the ticket!
Looking forward to hearing from your API experts.
Hey Tuomo Suominen, jumping in for Juan here 🙂
I can see that our agent reached out to you about this and for now, it's not possible to achieve via API. We have passed your feedback to the relevan team, so thank you very much for sharing it!
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Thanks for brining this issue up Mike Hawkes. We're in the process of building an integration that exports time from Wrike into Quickbooks Online. We'd love a way for the integration to see whether an entry has been finalized (locked) before pushing it into QBO. Otherwise, we're just going to have to trust that entries have been locked by our team. The risk is, of course, that time entries either get changed or added/deleted in Wrike after export. cc: Noah Barnecut
We would love some time-of-the-month triggers for automations, Tuomo Suominen!