Automate your timesheet with monday.com using VLOOKUP

With VLOOKUP, you can automatically link your timesheets and track your team members’ work hours. This can help you monitor things like staff availability, expenses, and even automatically link regular hours and absences. In this example, we’ll show you how to use VLOOKUP to easily link regular hours and absences, so you can better manage your team’s work and resources. This is a simple and efficient way to improve your team’s productivity and collaboration.

In this example, we are going to auto-link regular hours and absences.

Source board

Target board

To get started, you’ll need to;

• Install the VLOOKUP integration in both the source and target board.
• In the source board, go to the Integration Center and search for VLOOKUP. Once you find it, install the integration that allows you to automatically update changes in linked boards when a column value changes.
• In both the source and target board, install the VLOOKUP Edit View. To do this, go to the source board and click on the + icon located below the board’s title. This will open a new view where you can add the VLOOKUP Edit View.

• Once the VLOOKUP Edit View is installed, go back to the target board “Timesheet” and create a recipe and select the columns that you want to link. These could be columns for staff names, hours worked, and absences.
• Save your changes and you’re all set! Your source board will now be linked to the target board, and any changes made in one board will be automatically reflected in the other.

With VLOOKUP, you can easily track your team members’ work hours and monitor staff availability and expenses. This can save you time and effort, and help you manage your team more effectively.

VLookup has been used successfully by a variety of organizations to streamline their processes and improve their productivity. To get a better understanding of how VLookup can be applied in different contexts, browse the following use cases

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• Automate your timesheet with monday.com using VLookup