Mass approval of CATS Timesheets

Currently CATS timesheets show up on the UWL and users click on the timesheets individually that opens up the screen   RCATS_APPROVE_ACTIVITIES in transaction CATSW and the users either Approves or Reject it. Now they want some way of mass approval of timesheets to show multiple records in one screen. What are my options to do that? I am kind of novice in UWL and workflow so please elaborate on things if necessary

Hello,
Starting from ERP2005, new and improved standard tasks have been provided for Cross Application Timesheet.
Before this release, workitems were created for each employee. Approver had to click on each workitem in order to approve records , which was time consuming. With ERP2005, the approver gets at the maximum only one workitem which contains CATS records for all the employees sorted according to personnel numbers. So the approver has only one workitem to work with which makes Approval more easier and saves him lot of time.
To achieve this new functionality you have to make use of new Standard tasks TS31000004, TS31000006, TS31000007. The old tasks will still work in ERP2005 but it may yield some un-desirable results. Hence it is highly recommended to use the new tasks.
Best Regards,
Deepak.

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