MSS Approve Working Times - Collective Approval view changes

Hello,
We are implementing EP 7.0, ERP2005 (ECC 6.0) SP07, ESS (MySAP ERP) 1.0.
I have successfully configured the Individual Approval screen and the Detail Screen using SPRO to add and remove columns as per my client's requirements. However, I see no way to configure the Collective Approval view in a similar fashion.
The objective is to have similar columns display in the Time Sheet, the Collective Approval view, and the Individual Approval view.
Thanks in advance.
Fred
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Frederic Wood
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Frederic Wood

Hi fredric,
we have same kind of requirement as you had earlier.the client needs modifications in MSS screens such as collective approval screen,individual screen,review & save screen,completed screen changing label,decreasing the width of the column,hiding columns,,etc...I have tried with CTRL+R.C to do this changes,,but it did not work ..please can you detail the procedure to achive the requirement,,im new to MSS ..please detail the settings both from portal end & R3 end or else share any doc to achieve these ..Our environment is EP 7.0 sp7 & R3 version is 6.0 ehp4,mss version is 1.41...Any help would be appreciated..

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