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Setting Up Time Entry Database

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Justin3546
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Hi,

I have a base where I keep my business's time entries for each of the employees.  However, they may be in a different state based on the day, so I'm looking for a way to populate a field for each time entry showing their location.

The time entries have a date, a person who performed it (currently as a linked record), and the the number of hours.

I currently have a sheet with a separate record for each date and single select field for each employee showing the state that they were in.  Note I can change the organization of this table if needed (for example to entries with a date, a single employee and a location).  

Any thoughts on how to best set this up?  I currently have lookup fields for each individual employee in the time entries table, looking up their location on the given date, and then a formula field that uses a switch that selects which lookup field based on the user who performed the time entry.  However, it requires a new lookup field and an update to the formula each time I add an employee.  Any ideas on how to make this more robust given that there needs to be a lookup based on two variables (both date and the employee)?

 

 

 

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Hey @Justin3546

I suggest using the same time zone for everyone instead of each user's time zone because this will be the centralized information in your base. Since you have users as linked fields, you can simply convert the times to a separate field based on their given time zone. 

Thanks 

Dimitris Goudis