Timesheet Problems

Hello,
We have installed Project Server 2013, and since the beginning when someone try to access to their old timesheets it occurs the following problem "The view failed to load. Press Ok to reload
this view with default settings. Press Cancel to select another view" but not in every timesheet.
One of the problems to it occur its having some deleted task in those timesheets (checked by me), but not everytime is due to it.
Today i checked better the ULS Logs and I have seen this error:
12/10/2013 14:41:37.67    w3wp.exe (0x16D0)                          0x06F0   Project Server
    General                          aeby7   Exception   [bucketHash:F7E90F55]
Exception occured in method 'TimeSheet.GetTimesheetForGridJsonFromViewUid' System.InvalidOperationException: GetDataForAssignment: Did not find data for assignment. ProjUid=ce36bfcc-0717-e311-b7af-dc85de920b86 AssnUid=0ab8a40d-0446-e311-8ba3-dc85de920b86
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.TimePhasedDataAccess.GetDataForAssignment(Guid docGuid, Guid guidAssn)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.DataEdit.Assignments.AssnCntr.LoadAssnData(ISvrDataAccess dataAccess, Guid docGuid,
Guid assnGuid)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.DataEdit.Assignments.AssnCntr.LoadNode(Guid guid)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.DataEdit.Assignments.AssnCntr.FindAssnNode(Guid guid)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.Statusing.<>c__DisplayClass43.<ReadStatusTimeph...
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12/10/2013 14:41:37.67*   w3wp.exe (0x16D0)                          0x06F0   Project Server
    General                          aeby7   Exception   ...asedDataForTimesheet>b__41(KeyValuePair`2
projAssn)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Library.PSUtility.Apply[T](IEnumerable`1 enumerable, Action`1 fn)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.Statusing.ReadStatusTimephasedDataForTimesheet(IDictionary`2
projAssignments, DateTime start, DateTime end, Int64 intervalInMinutes)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.Timesheet.ImportActuals(ISet`1 assignmentUids, ISet`1 userImported, Boolean acceptChanges)
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.Timesheet.ImportActualsAndCustomFields(IEnumerable`1 assignmentUids, ISet`1 userImported)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.TimesheetLoaderForGrid.Load()
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.TimeSheet.GetTimesheetForGridJsonF...   19f25e9c-ceae-90be-94f4-aa43a775c366
12/10/2013 14:41:37.67*   w3wp.exe (0x16D0)                          0x06F0   Project Server
    General                          aeby7   Exception   ...romViewUid(JsGridSerializerArguments
gridSerializerArgs, Guid tsUid, Guid viewUid, String changesJson, String viewOptionsJson)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Wcf.Implementation.PWAImpl.<>c__DisplayClass2f5.<TimeSheetGetTimesheetForGridJsonFromViewUid>b__2f4()
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Wcf.Implementation.WcfMethodInvocation.InvokeBusinessObjectMethod(String businessObjectName, String methodName, IEnumerable`1 actions) StackTrace: at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Native.dll: (sig=85ae470f-554c-4a8c-992e-92aeb657c829|2|microsoft.office.project.server.native.pdb,
offset=3C1E) at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Native.dll: (offset=1255D)   19f25e9c-ceae-90be-94f4-aa43a775c366
12/10/2013 14:41:37.67    w3wp.exe (0x16D0)                          0x06F0   Project Server
    Unified Logging Service          c91s   Monitorable   Watson bucket parameters: Microsoft Project Server 2013, ULSException14, 070f6ea0 "project server",
0f001181 "15.0.4481.0", 9c2bade2 "microsoft.office.project.server", 0f001199 "15.0.4505.0", 51481b12 "tue mar 19 08:00:18 2013", 00004817 "00004817", 00000047 "00000047", 54e7243f "invalidoperationexception",
00101621 "aeby7"   19f25e9c-ceae-90be-94f4-aa43a775c366
12/10/2013 14:41:37.67    w3wp.exe (0x16D0)                          0x06F0   Project Server
    General                          aeby8   Medium     Error is: GeneralUnhandledException.
Details: General Unhandled Exception in _TimeSheet.GetTimesheetForGridJsonFromViewUid_ Attributes: System.InvalidOperationException: GetDataForAssignment: Did not find data for assignment. ProjUid=ce36bfcc-0717-e311-b7af-dc85de920b86 AssnUid=0ab8a40d-0446-e311-8ba3-dc85de920b86
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.TimePhasedDataAccess.GetDataForAssignment(Guid docGuid, Guid guidAssn)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.DataEdit.Assignments.AssnCntr.LoadAssnData(ISvrDataAccess dataAccess, Guid docGuid,
Guid assnGuid)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.DataEdit.Assignments.AssnCntr.LoadNode(Guid guid)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.DataEdit.Assignments.AssnCntr.FindAssnNode(Guid guid)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.Statusi...
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12/10/2013 14:41:37.67*   w3wp.exe (0x16D0)                          0x06F0   Project Server
    General                          aeby8   Medium     ...ng.<>c__DisplayClass43.<ReadStatusTimephasedDataForTimesheet>b__41(KeyValuePair`2
projAssn)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Library.PSUtility.Apply[T](IEnumerable`1 enumerable, Action`1 fn)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.Statusing.ReadStatusTimephasedDataForTimesheet(IDictionary`2
projAssignments, DateTime start, DateTime end, Int64 intervalInMinutes)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.Timesheet.ImportActuals(ISet`1 assignmentUids, ISet`1 userImported, Boolean acceptChanges)
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.Timesheet.ImportActualsAndCustomFields(IEnumerable`1 assignmentUids, ISet`1 userImported)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.TimesheetLoaderForGrid.Load()
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Business...   19f25e9c-ceae-90be-94f4-aa43a775c366
12/10/2013 14:41:37.67*   w3wp.exe (0x16D0)                          0x06F0   Project Server
    General                          aeby8   Medium     ...Layer.TimeSheet.GetTimesheetForGridJsonFromViewUid(JsGridSerializerArguments
gridSerializerArgs, Guid tsUid, Guid viewUid, String changesJson, String viewOptionsJson)     at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Wcf.Implementation.PWAImpl.<>c__DisplayClass2f5.<TimeSheetGetTimesheetForGridJsonFromViewUid>b__2f4()
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Wcf.Implementation.WcfMethodInvocation.InvokeBusinessObjectMethod(String businessObjectName, String methodName, IEnumerable`1 actions) . Standard Information: PSI Entry Point: Project User: i:0#.w|domain\user
Correlation Id: deba642a-a961-e311-93ff-00155d1e2127 PWA Site URL: http://portal/PWA SA Name: ProjectWebApp PSError: GeneralUnhandledException (42), LogLevelManager Warning-ulsID:0x00101622 has no entities explicitly speci...   19f25e9c-ceae-90be-94f4-aa43a775c366
12/10/2013 14:41:37.67*   w3wp.exe (0x16D0)                          0x06F0   Project Server
    General                          aeby8   Medium     ...fied.
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To solve that error I disabled Single Entry Mode from server, and problem seems fixed but this is not a solution since SEM its needed for dailly work. Someone can say me what could going wrong? Since i dont have more ideas about whats happening, and yes
server is full patched atm.
Regards

Hello Andre Fillipe C,
Have you opened a support ticket? Got any news on your situation?
I got the same thing also described in this thread:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/77d52bf3-aa53-49bd-8b6d-2a90d6a65171/errors-with-timesheet-approvals-after-unpublishing-or-deleting-tasks?forum=projectserver2010general
Thanks for any extra information.
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1.When time is entered on an assignment into timesheet lines of multiple billing categories, only time entered since the last save is getting saved and ultimately sent, on timesheet submit, to the approval center. Although the previously entered and
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2."_ Error Loading". When assignments are added, deleted, or changed after a timesheet has been created, standard timesheet lines are added, deleted or changed (i.e. synchronize) with the assignments. However, for custom billing category
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4."Error Communicating with Server". When trying to submit a timesheet, a pop-up box appears indicating that there is an error communicating with the server. This error appears because a timesheet line is no longer associated with a project.
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5. Unable to Open Specific Timesheets without Error. There are certain scenarios when the "Remove Task" feature is used or an assignment is otherwise removed after creation of a timesheet with custom billing category lines, which causes orphaned
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In 4 and 5, sometimes we can't open a timesheet without error, and other times we can open it but not submit it. We are not 100% clear on all the different causes for each. Each of these issues are suspected to be contributing the the misalignment of
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Although these may seem like separate issues, warranting separate questions, I decided to post them together because they all seem to be related to synchronization of project assignments and timesheet lines for custom billing categories.
Any thoughts or suggestions from the community would be appreciated.
Best regards,
Justin
Justin Naughton

There are many causes for each of the errors mention. It would be best to put one issue to the forum at a time. For example, some of these issues occur then tasks are deleted from projects but a timesheet has been submitted. Depending
on the scenario, some of these issues have been fixed with the latest service pack.
Other issues are due to bad scheduling habits with the project managers and so first determining what they have done can help resolve some the issues.
_error Loading, is because something is NULL in the data and the jave is choking when it build the form. Again, these may be because of delete tasks, resources, projects or someone doing copying and pasting of rows.
cheers!
PS. Train your PM to not COPY and PASTE rows in project schedules. It can be done, but it can create problems. There are over 500 fields and some have unique data and the copy paste creates havic.
Michael Wharton, MVP, MBA, PMP, MCT, MCTS, MCSD, MCSE+I, MCDBA
Website http://www.WhartonComputer.com
Blog http://MyProjectExpert.com contains my field notes and SQL queries

Is there a way to clean up the Timesheet tables in MS Project 2007 before I migrate to 2013?

Hi All
I'm attempting to migrate an instance of project server 2007 over to 2013. The problem is that it failes on the convertto process when combining the 4 2010 databases into a single 2013 database.
Reading through the logs it appears to be an issues with an invalid Foreign Key in the MSP_TimesheetProjects table.
On investigation I find that the 2007 Timesheet tables in the Reporting database have a number of invalid entries. We don't use the timesheeting system in that particular instance so there should not be any entries at all. There are however a
couple to projects in the TimesheetProjects table, as well as a few tasks and timesheet lines, even though there don't appear to be any timesheets. I have run a delete on all timesheets in the system, and have rebuild the Reporting database by restoreing
custom fields, but I can't seem to shift them.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate the help.
John

Hi John,
What I'd suggest would be to refresh the 2007 reporting DB. See the procedure below:
Logon to Project Web Access with Administrator credentials
Select Administrative Backup from the Database Administration secton on the Server
SettingsPage in Project Web Access
In the Items for Backup section of the Backup page,
select the checkbox for Enterprise Custom Fields and then click the Backup button and click the OK button
when prompted by the system
Select Administrative Restore from the Database Administration secton on the Server Settings Page in Project Web Access
Choose Enterprise Custom Fields from the Choose Item selector on the Restore page
Click the Restore button and then click the OK button
when prompted by the system
See reference
here.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MVP, P-Seller |

Timesheet error when clicking on details in the daily view

Hi Everyone,
We just applied the new Pack EHP4 and update our ESS portal accordingly. But in timesheet are getting an error we haven't encountered before. When going to timesheet (record time app) and clicking on the daily view you either get a new screen if you do it correctly or an error message saying Select a Filled row to change to the detail view.
In the upgraded system that last error message does not come up. Instead it crashes and give this error:
500   Internal Server Error
          SAP NetWeaver Application Server 7.00/Java AS 7.00
Failed to process request. Please contact your system administrator.
[Hide]
Error Summary
While processing the current request, an exception occured which could not be handled by the application or the framework.
If the information contained on this page doesn't help you to find and correct the cause of the problem, please contact your system administrator. To facilitate analysis of the problem, keep a copy of this error page. Hint: Most browsers allow to select all content, copy it and then paste it into an empty document (e.g. email or simple text file).
Root Cause
The initial exception that caused the request to fail, was:
   java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.sap.xss.hr.cat.record.vac.entry.VcCatTableDay.onActionDisplayDetails(VcCatTableDay.java:675)
    at com.sap.xss.hr.cat.record.vac.entry.wdp.InternalVcCatTableDay.wdInvokeEventHandler(InternalVcCatTableDay.java:172)
    at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.generation.DelegatingView.invokeEventHandler(DelegatingView.java:87)
    at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.controller.Action.fire(Action.java:67)
    at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.window.WindowPhaseModel.doHandleActionEvent(WindowPhaseModel.java:420)
    ... 42 more
Thanks a lot in advance for your help,
Jesus

Thanks for the reply after alot of looking i found some OSS notes for 603 I am in 604 but I guess the error is the same so I sent a msg to SAP asking for more instructions to our specific set up.
Thanks a lot

Problem with BSP MVC

Hi all,
I had a bsp application which is now running live in the organization. Recently, I got a problem report back from user, which is causing data loss.
After the support team check the problem and found out the source of the problem. Let me briefly state the problem here. The application is using bsp mvc and it is stateful.
First, when a user open the application in IE, it is a timesheet entry application, first page will display the time entry of that user for current month. let say the default selected month is September. then if the user wan to compare the entry with previous month, then he will open a new window (ctrl + N) or new tab (ctrl + T), then open the application again. Because of using SSO, the application will not prompt user to login again and will directly lead user to the time entry page. then the user change the month to August for the second new page.
after the user change the month to august, it will refresh the model that hold the data of the month. means the model now carry August calendar. then the user go back to the first window or the first tab with september time entry, he try to add in new data into that time entry, and save. when it is saved, the september data will go into the August data not go into the September data. this causing data loss in September.
If I tried this again with not using (ctrl + N) or (ctrl + T) but is open another new IE broswer instance, then it wont give this problem at all. because it create another new model to hold the calendar data. It work fine as long as the user not open two or more windows or tab in a same IE instances.
Does anyone here meet this problem before or could provide any suggestion to solve this kind of problem? I cant simply changed the application to stateless because it already using worldwide and it will cause a lot of problem. Sorry if my question here was not clear enough.
Thanks you. (reward point will be given for helpful answer.)

Is there anyone can understand my problem?
Thanks you.

How to get timesheet information in a javascript (Project Server 2013)

Hi all,
In Project Server 2013, I'm trying to customize the Timesheet ribbon. This far, I've been able to add a new button and tie an event to it. All is working well. This is all done using elements.xml and a javascripts.
Now the problem is that I want to get some informations about the timesheet (the Guid for example) and, for now, I've got no success. I know that there is an object called PS.TimeSheet, but when I try to use some PS.TimeSheet's methods I get an error.
Note that i'm in the page http://servername/pwa/timesheet.aspx (there is not Guid in the address) and all the treatments should be done in the javascript (no call to another aspx page)
Thanks !

Finally, I've found the solution.
My goal was to add a button in the timesheet ribbon to launch a special report showing some data about the timesheet. The report has the timesheet Guid as parameter.
To customize the Sharepoint ribbon, you have to do it via an xml file and a javascript (a lot of explanation is available in the internet that explains how to do it). So I had to call a function in the javascript to launch the report (which is a SSRS report).
When you are in a javascript you have access to many global variables. When the timesheet.aspx is displayed, there is a global variable called "timesheetComponent".
Using this variable we can call the method :
timesheetComponent.m_consumedApi.get_Impl()
to get an implementation of the current timesheet. This implementation has an attibute that has a lot of nice stuff about the current user and the current time sheet. This attribute is
_headerInfo
_headerInfo is a structure that includes tsUid which contains the timesheet Guid I was looking for.
Finally, the function attached to the button goes like this :
function _LaunchReport() {
var tsUId;
var rptPath;
var tsImpl = timesheetComponent.m_consumedApi.get_Impl();
try
if (CONST_REPORT_PATH == null || CONST_REPORT_PATH == "" ) {
alert("Constant CONST_REPORT_PATH is not defined")
else {
tsUId = tsImpl._headerInfo.tsUid;
rptPath = CONST_REPORT_PATH + 'TimesheetDetails&rs:Command=Render&rc:Parameters=false&TimesheetUID=' + tsUId;
window.open(rptPath);
catch (Err) {
alert(Err)
CONST_REPORT_PATH is the path to SSRS defined elsewhere
I hope this will help some other poeple !

System error while opening the timesheet through Portal

Hi Experts,
I am getting the below error message while opening the timesheet through Web Portal. But I am not getting any error if I book time through back end i.e. CAT2 Transaction.
System error: No receiver could be determined
This error comes in Portal only (not in backend) once I enable "HR Enables CATS" option in Data entry profile through CAC1 transaction. There is no error if the same option is disabled. But we need this option to be enabled.
Can anybody help me ASAP for the same?
Thanks,
Atin

Hi Atin,
Can you please let me know how was that problem with HR Enabled Cats is Solved as w are facing the exact same issue.
thanks
Gaurav

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