Thank you navzjoshi00. I had already read the referenced thread and am familiar with the current options.
TEC521565 has the needed enhancement request. The document is dated 9/11/2014. This issue has been on the board since 2009. How long before the review completes?
If CA continues postponing action to address customer outcry to modify the Populate button behavior, perhaps adding a "Copy From" button could be considered?
I did, as a non-admin client user, set the ETC fields to 0 on all the items I did not want to show, saved it, and then deleted those items from my timesheet. When I hit populate on the next week's timesheet, it eliminated a majority of the unwanted items. A couple with ETC=0 did still show up. Perhaps that is because I charged hours to those earlier this year? Does changing ETC within my timesheet affect only me or does changing it affect others' timesheets?
The aforementioned actions did help and should be published as a work-around for customers until the needed option to copy everything exactly the way it was on a previous timesheet gets implemented.
The problem seems to be that Clairty designers assume all its customers are micromanaging employee acitvities. The product development areas within our company often perform that low-level administration of tasks and give careful scrutiny to begin and end of task dates. The majority of areas (architecture, networking, performance eng, etc) within our company have high-level task buckets and occasionally pull in a low-level one if work is needed against a particular project CSR from another area. Unfortunately, once one of these low-level tasks gets assigned, it sticks around longer than needed and since others within product development still need and use that task, using the task end date to prevent it from showing up in our timesheets is not an option.