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How to record time worked on an Incident

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3.0 - Updated on 2024-06-01 by Terri Kouba

2.0 - Updated on 2020-04-27 by Rich Meyer

1.0 - Authored on 2016-01-19 by Scott Hall

To track the time you spend working on an Incident in ServiceNow, use the "Time worked" field located under the "Assigned to" field on the right side of the form:

Time worked field

There are two ways to record time on an incident:

Manual Entry

Manually enter the time you work by entering the hours and minutes in the two editable parts of the Time worked field. Your time will be recorded when you save the incident.

Time Worked Hours Minutes

Stopwatch Entry

Click the Play button to start the timer. The timer will run until you click to pause the timer, or until you save the incident. You do not need to pause the timer prior to saving the incident.

Your time will be recorded when you save the incident.