Project server 2013 Time sheet comments are missing or deleting automatically.

HI,
For few users the timesheet comments are missing or automatically deleting in my EPM 2013 environment, i am not getting why this was happening & it was not happening always for few users this was happening & not all the times some timesheets only
the comments are deleting & only comments are deleting the remaining timesheet hours are fine.
Does any have this kind of this issue , can any one please help me on this.
Thank You, Kumar KSV

Hi Kumar,
This might be a normal behavior depending on how you configured the time tracking process. See this
excellent recent blog from Michael Wharton.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MVP, P-Seller |

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