CProjects: BP Availability

Hi Experts.
I have a question regarding the availability of business partners in cProjects:
We have Business Partners which are connected to corresponding user and HR employee. When somebody makes an request for e.g. vacation, we book this offtime in cats to an network with the corresponding A/AType.
Now i want to have the real availability of this employee in cP. I know that there is the possibility to make availability entrys in ta rpm_empdata. But i want to have real availability (e.g. when the employee is off for vacation in june, i want to see that in cP (=0 availability in june for this employee)).
How to solve this problem?
We are using cP Suite 4.5 / PSP Controlling / CATS Integration
Thanks,
Malte
Edited by: Malte Jacobi on Jun 3, 2010 10:36 AM

Hi Malte,
the absences from HR are not taken into consideration when you do HR ALE distribution of employee data.
You could do this e.g. via BAdi. Would require some programming. See also xRPM cProjects how import HR absences
Best regards
Thorsten
Edited by: Thorsten Schneider on Jun 12, 2010 8:39 PM

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