GetEmployeeWork

Project management service 1.8: Returns one employee's project-time registrations whose work date lies in a range, as full WorkUnit objects with task, project and customer headers.


Service	Project management 1.8
Endpoint	`POST https://app{server-number}.timelog.com/{account}/WebServices/ProjectManagement/V1_8/ProjectManagementServiceSecure.svc`
SOAPAction	`GetEmployeeWorkRequest`
Content-Type	`text/xml; charset=utf-8`
Authentication	A token from GetToken
Permissions	Own registrations: no privilege needed.
Changes data	No
Safe to retry	Yes

How it works

Looks up the employee by initials, checks the caller may see that employee's time, and returns every PROJECT-time registration whose work date is >= startDate and <= endDate. Each item is a WorkUnit with GUID, task ID, allocation GUID, duration, billable duration, comment, additional text, an IsEditable flag and Details. Dates: compared with the registration's date, so an endDate at 00:00 includes that day, but a startDate with a time of day after 00:00 EXCLUDES its own day. WorkUnit.StartDateTime comes back as the work date at 00:00 and EndDateTime as date + duration - not the stored start / end times. The list is not ordered and not paged.

Parameters

Each parameter has one label: Required, Conditional (required depending on other values) or Optional. Send them in the order shown.

initialsstring

Required

Initials of the employee. Empty -> Invalid 10002; unknown -> Invalid 30015.

startDatedateTime

Required

First work date. Send it at 00:00 - a later time of day excludes that day.

endDatedateTime

Required

Last work date.

tokenSecurityToken

Required

The token from GetToken: Initials, Expires and Hash, sent back unchanged.

Request

POST /{account}/WebServices/ProjectManagement/V1_8/ProjectManagementServiceSecure.svc HTTP/1.1
Host: app{server-number}.timelog.com
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: "GetEmployeeWorkRequest"

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
                  xmlns:pm="http://www.timelog.com/api/tlp/v1_8"
                  xmlns:tok="http://www.timelog.com/api/tlp/v1_3">
  <soapenv:Body>
    <pm:GetEmployeeWork>
      <pm:initials>{initials}</pm:initials>
      <pm:startDate>{startDate}</pm:startDate>
      <pm:endDate>{endDate}</pm:endDate>
      <pm:token>
        <tok:Initials>{Initials from GetToken}</tok:Initials>
        <tok:Expires>{Expires from GetToken, unchanged}</tok:Expires>
        <tok:Hash>{Hash from GetToken}</tok:Hash>
      </pm:token>
    </pm:GetEmployeeWork>
  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

curl -X POST "https://app{server-number}.timelog.com/{account}/WebServices/ProjectManagement/V1_8/ProjectManagementServiceSecure.svc" \
  -H "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8" \
  -H 'SOAPAction: "GetEmployeeWorkRequest"' \
  --data-binary @request.xml

import requests

URL = "https://app{server-number}.timelog.com/{account}/WebServices/ProjectManagement/V1_8/ProjectManagementServiceSecure.svc"
SOAP_ACTION = '"GetEmployeeWorkRequest"'

envelope = """<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
                  xmlns:pm="http://www.timelog.com/api/tlp/v1_8"
                  xmlns:tok="http://www.timelog.com/api/tlp/v1_3">
  <soapenv:Body>
    <pm:GetEmployeeWork>
      <pm:initials>{initials}</pm:initials>
      <pm:startDate>{startDate}</pm:startDate>
      <pm:endDate>{endDate}</pm:endDate>
      <pm:token>
        <tok:Initials>{Initials from GetToken}</tok:Initials>
        <tok:Expires>{Expires from GetToken, unchanged}</tok:Expires>
        <tok:Hash>{Hash from GetToken}</tok:Hash>
      </pm:token>
    </pm:GetEmployeeWork>
  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>"""

response = requests.post(
    URL,
    data=envelope.encode("utf-8"),
    headers={"Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8", "SOAPAction": SOAP_ACTION},
    timeout=60,
)
result = parse_result(response)  # see "Responses and errors"

Replace every {…} placeholder with your own value.

Response

The call returns the standard response envelope. Check ResponseState first: a failed call still returns HTTP 200.

ResponseStatestring

Required

Success, Invalid or Error.

ErrorCodeinteger

0 on success, otherwise the error code. See Errors.

ReturnWorkUnit[]

Response<WorkUnit>: every project-time registration of the employee in the range; 'Successfully called' message. ResponseState Success, empty Return.

Example response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <s:Body>
    <GetEmployeeWorkResponse xmlns="http://www.timelog.com/api/tlp/v1_8">
      <GetEmployeeWorkResult xmlns:a="http://api.timelog.com"
                             xmlns:b="http://www.timelog.com/api/tlp/v1_7"
                             xmlns:c="http://api.timelog.com/services/crm/1_2"
                             xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
        <a:Return>
          <b:WorkUnit>
            <b:GUID>3f2504e0-4f89-41d3-9a0c-305000000001</b:GUID>
            <b:AllocationGUID>3f2504e0-4f89-41d3-9a0c-305000000002</b:AllocationGUID>
            <b:TaskID>1001</b:TaskID>
            <b:EmployeeInitials>Example</b:EmployeeInitials>
            <b:Duration>Example</b:Duration>
            <b:StartDateTime>2026-10-01T00:00:00</b:StartDateTime>
            <b:EndDateTime>2026-10-01T00:00:00</b:EndDateTime>
            <b:Description>Example</b:Description>
            <b:TimeStamp>AAAAAAAAAAA=</b:TimeStamp>
            <b:IsEditable>false</b:IsEditable>
            <b:AdditionalText>Example</b:AdditionalText>
            <b:IsMeeting>false</b:IsMeeting>
            <b:BillableDuration>Example</b:BillableDuration>
            <b:Details>
              <b:TaskHeader>
                <b:ID>1001</b:ID>
                <b:Name>Example </b:Name>
                <b:No>1001</b:No>
                <b:IsActive>true</b:IsActive>
                <b:WBS>Example</b:WBS>
                <b:FullName>Example full</b:FullName>
                <b:ExternalKey>Example</b:ExternalKey>
              </b:TaskHeader>
              <b:ProjectHeader>
                <b:ID>1001</b:ID>
                <b:ProjectGUID>3f2504e0-4f89-41d3-9a0c-305000000003</b:ProjectGUID>
                <b:Name>Example </b:Name>
                <b:No>1001</b:No>
                <b:IsActive>true</b:IsActive>
                <b:IsGeneralProject>false</b:IsGeneralProject>
                <b:StartDate>2026-10-01T00:00:00</b:StartDate>
                <b:EndDate>2026-10-01T00:00:00</b:EndDate>
                <b:MainContractID>1001</b:MainContractID>
              </b:ProjectHeader>
              <b:CustomerHeader>
                <c:ID>1001</c:ID>
                <c:Name>Example </c:Name>
                <c:No>1001</c:No>
                <c:GUID>3f2504e0-4f89-41d3-9a0c-305000000004</c:GUID>
              </b:CustomerHeader>
            </b:Details>
          </b:WorkUnit>
        </a:Return>
        <a:ReturnTypeDescription>WorkUnit</a:ReturnTypeDescription>
        <a:Request>…</a:Request>
        <a:ResponseState>Success</a:ResponseState>
        <a:Messages>
          <a:APIMessage>
            <a:Message>Duration of call was 0,0421337 sec.</a:Message>
            <a:Severity>Message</a:Severity>
            <a:ErrorCode>0</a:ErrorCode>
          </a:APIMessage>
        </a:Messages>
        <a:ErrorCode>0</a:ErrorCode>
        <a:IsReturnPaged>false</a:IsReturnPaged>
        <a:TotalPageCount>0</a:TotalPageCount>
      </GetEmployeeWorkResult>
    </GetEmployeeWorkResponse>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

Illustrative example: built from the service description (WSDL) in the same format as a real response, with made-up values. The Request block is shortened.

Errors

All errors come back with HTTP 200: check ResponseState, ErrorCode and Messages. The errors every operation can return (expired or invalid token, API not enabled, HTTPS required, general errors) are listed once in Responses and errors.

Errors specific to this operation:

ResponseState	ErrorCode	Message	What it means	What to do
Invalid	10002	{field}, was null or empty	initials empty: 'Initials, was null or empty'.	Send the named value.
Invalid	30015	Unknown employee Initials: '{initials}'.	No employee has these initials.	—
Invalid	20012	User: {initials}, has Insufficient Access. Missing privilege was: {role}	—	—
Invalid	40004	V1_{n} is deprecated. Please upgrade to V1_{m} or later.	Nothing is read or written and the token is NOT checked.	Call the same operation on the current version.

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