Record Actual Working Times in CATS

Hi All,
I was wondering about the possibility of entering From and To time in CAT2 and let CATS calculate the daily/ total hours as per the times entererd by me.
Kindly share the possibilities for getting this requirement fullfilled.
Thanks,
Binu

Hi Doug and Raj,
Appreciate your input.
I had made the chnages thru CAC1. However, adding form and to time does add to the total time. For the total time to be added, you need to added hours along with from and to time.
I realised that thru standard I wont be able to auto calculate the total worked hours, hence tryin to achieve this requirement thru user exit.
This will reduce the time taken by Time Keepers to enter CATS for labours.
Regards,
Binu

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Hello experts,
I am a beginner and I really need your help regarding this point. we want to start recording working times in our PPM system. In our system we have the integration of our ERP system with CATS. We can easily registrate in ERP working time on each personnel number, on a specific cost center for cProjects, on activity type special defined for each role. We also transfer this costs with resources to controlling - so, in ERP system everything works fine.
But, when I go to PPM system - I'm lost. all that I maintained on ERP system is available on Accounting Tab in Detail Data -which is good. But, I am not able to see the confirmed work on task level, tab "Dates and work" (see screenshot attached). Do I miss some customizing? or how should I proceed in order that this field "confirmed work" to be filled with the data registrated on ERP?
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Hello Cassoké,
have you enabled CATS-integration with cProjects in customizing?
1) Customizing CATS-Integration for your project type in PPM
Checkbox "Time/Travel Expenses Rec. CATS/SRM/FIN". Setting up "Accounting Integration".
2) Customizing CATS-Integration from CATS-profile-customizing
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Never had much luck with Automator in Leopard, so I thought I'd give it a try in Snow Leopard doing what I thought would be an easy task using the Record feature.
The very first step was choosing the Apple Menu and then System Preferences…
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Hello Guru's,
We are working on Time Management and for this we are using Working Time iView in Employee Self-Service role.
We are using Record Working Time and in this we record the working times and in the WBS Element cell there is option like F4 which opens up a popup and we can search for Projects (or WBS element) I want to make changes to that screen.
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Hi Pramod,
In order to modify the standard webdynpro record working time application , you have to do below steps.
Import source code ( XSS Components ) in NWDI
Create a track.
From Developer studio , connect to DTR and check out the source code .
Create the sap.com/ess~cat (DC') project in NWDS.
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Refer JDI Cookbook for ESS.doc for above tasks.
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Record working time giving error

hi experts,
I have implemented one sap note 1017728.The description of the note is mentioned below:
The note is related to recording of working time in portal.The note is completely implemented in sap r/3 side ,but when the user is testing the same in the portal he is getting an error:
Page 1 from 21017728SAP Note Sep 19, 20075Version
Processor PRRUDRA
Processing Status In Process
Implementation Status Processor
Processing Status
Implementation Status
Language
Short Text
Component
THEMK_NAME
NOTE_TEXT
SAP Note
Version
DATELanguage E
Short Text CATS-WD:Duplicate line is created when template is saved.
Component CA-TS-IA-XS
Description
Symptom
In record working time a duplicate line is created when the template is saved or refreshed.This happens only when the
WBS element exists in the
data profile of the user.
Other terms
WBS, Save, template, refresh, duplicate, external, internal representation
Reason and Prerequisites
Program error.This issue happens because of the comparison between the
external and internal representation of the WBS element which are different.
Solution
Apply the attached correction instructions and also follow the below mentioned manual steps.
1.Create the method COMPARE_VALUES in the interface IF_XSS_CAT_UIA_TR_ACCESS.
The parameters for this method should be as follows.
PARAMETER Type Typing Method Associated Type Description FIELDNAME Importing Type FIELDNAME Fieldname
COMPARISON Importing Type Ref To DATA
RESULT Exporting Type BOOLE_D Data element for domain BOOLE: TRUE (='X') and FALSE (=' ')
Apply the corresponding Support Package to incorporate the relevant
changes.
Valid Releases:
Software Component Release
DSCR
RELEASE
RELEASE
RELEASE
DSCR
ALSTXT
ALETXT
SAP Note
Version
DATESAP R/3 Enterprise AddOn Human Resource
500
600
700
References to Relevant Support Packages:
Software Component Release Package Name:
SAP R/3 Enterprise AddOn Human Resource
600 SAPKGPHD19
Please suggest what to do.
regards
Prasun

What about the cats profile. You need to check the cats profile. This error is of cats profile only.
if the profile is set accordingly then you wont get this error.
Its not a workflow issue
ask your wf consultant to check
The reason is that with tast 31000004 the rule is not defined.
Pl follow the step below and it will start working
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7. compile it
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Unable to save data in record working time

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ESS Record Working Time .. Restrict Time Entry with Relative limit

Hi SDN Users,
We are using ERP 2005 and EP 7.0 with webdynpro java ESS applications for Time, Travel and Personal Information.
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Hello Salome ,
You can use the following way out for this :
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we can get begda and endda.
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this would work , since I did the same and it worked absolutely well for me .
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Edited by: Sandeep Sharma on Jul 8, 2009 7:41 PM

Approval of Working Times tasks show in UWL and shouldn't

Our employees use ESS to record their working time and the managers use MSS to approve that time. Occasionally the task Approval of Working Times, along with the sender date, name and a Cats attachment, appears in the managers UWL which makes it look like someone has time to be approved however, we do not go to the UWL to approve time. If this task is clicked on in the UWL a u201CService cannot be reached HTTP 404 u2013 Not foundu201D error is thrown. The send date of this task does correspond with a date when the employee entered time in ESS which the manager approved a few days later in MSS. So it appears that occasionally but not regularly or in any sort of pattern, time workflows to both MSS where the managers approve it and to the UWL where we donu2019t want it and sits there and drives the managers crazy. (Managers do go to the UWL to approve PCRs.) We have checked the workflow log and cannot see a split. How do we prevent the time approval from routing to the UWL?

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Regards,
Karri

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Hello,
SAP Library help (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/ef/e18d3f7057eb0ce10000000a114084/frameset.htm) says the following:
Compared with CATS classic, the following constraints exist for this Web application:
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Is there any workaround to solve it? I mean, we need to recording working time data centrally through ESS or MSS. That's possible? Any enhacement for that? No matter where to do it (ESS or MSS).
Thanks!
Miguel Angel.

Hi Jigar,
That's almost exactly the requirement we need to implement!
Basically we need:
a. The employees with computer will record their own working times via ESS
b. For the employees without computer, their working times will be recorded via MSS by:
1. their org unit superior OR
2. someone like a time administrator defined in a custom list containing "employees for the time administrator".
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Miguel Angel.

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We are facing issue in Record working time where there are users who belong to Org unit "70001573u201D. The chief position of org unit 70001573 is not occupied.
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also
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Nachy,
we can enhance this FM and use one of the user exits
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