Working Time Approval

Hi Gurus,
We are using the SAP Std. Working Time application. Employee is submitting his/her working time and the manager received a Work Item in his UWL.
While clicking on it, Manager is redirected to the collective approval screen.
Is there a way that he can approve individual employees request rather than doing it collectiviely?
Please advice...
Regards,
Rekha Malavathu

See if the following customizing node helps:
Integration with Other mySAP.com Components -> Business Packages / Functional Packages -> Manager Self-Service (mySAP ERP) -> Working Time -> Approve Working Time
Also check out the node(s) documentation.

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I am trying to configure the MSS in order to approve the recorded times. Using cProjects for resource handling I would like to see the times to approve in the hierarchy of the project (with project, phase and taks). I would like this hierarchy in combination with the personal no, ... by choosing different views.
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When an employee books time in the section "Record Working Time", it goe for approval in "Approve Time sheet data" in MSS under Work Overview>Team>Employee Working Times>Approve Time sheet data.
Now my client needs that it should come in the UWL under the section "Tasks" as it comes in case of a leave request approval.
I just wanted to inform that in the table TCATS in the section "Workflow" we have neither checked "With SAPBusiness Workflow" and nor "With auto determination of recipient".The Task field is empty.
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No in SBWP I am not able to see. But all the leave requests that are generated can be seen.
This is the case for both the approver and the person who requests the leave.
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After releasing the time sheet(releasing work time data) by the employee through Portal-ESS, It needs to go his line manger. In this case I am able to release from ESS but I did not find any link for approval.

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Hi Garrett,
System identified the Record working time profile from the value against User Parameter CVR in SU01.
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Some time this year, we'd like all our US administrative personnel to enter time using ESS Recording Working Time (HRESS_A_CATS_1) however, they would need to have all their time approved by their reporting manager (or a backup) before it goes into IT2001/2002.
You need to change the CVR parameter value to Z_ESS_A for that period for all US administrative employees for that duration. Again you need to change it to ESS once that duration is over.
but I would like the approval to be done by their reporting manager in Manager Self-Service using the Approve Time Sheet application (HRMSS_A_CATS_APPROVAL) and not by click on some link in their UWL.
Below tick in CAC1 triggers workitems to UWL, if not only sent to Approve Time sheet application in MSS.
I did notice the Approve Working Time section in the IMG. Is this where I need to set up the approvals? I noticed a SAP_LINE view,
SPRO / PM/ ESS WDABP / Working Time/ Record working time/ Approve Working Time
above is the navigation where you configure approval process.
SAP_LINE is also a user parameter for managers in SU01 against CATS_APPR_PROF.
So Employee SU01 - CVR = ESS or Z_ESS_A
Manager SU01 - CATS_APPR_PROF = SAP_LINE or Custom one.
however I read this uses a line manager relationship dictated in OM, however we do not use that relationship (A002/B002). We simply use the A003 (Manages/Belongs to) relationships, thus the task would identify the chief of the org unit and use that relationship to decide who to send the time sheet approval to.
It doesn't work based on A002/B002 relation, it works based on Chief Relation (A012/B012) to Org.Unit.
Let us say X is the chief for A org.unit, all the positions those belong to A org.unit shown under X as reportee employees, so X can be the approver for A1, A2, A3 and so on.
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In the standard workflow task the Item does turn red when rejected, but if employees aren't reviewing their entries they may never know it was rejected before they check their pay stubs.
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Sid,
I believe we are or have looked into RSWUWFML2, but I will confirm.
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http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1725144 (Email Forwarding)
http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1397351 (SO16 Forwarding)
http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2084622 (SO16 Forwarding)
http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1947223 (SO16 Forwarding)
http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1686788 (SO16 Forwarding)
http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2093332 (Rejection to External Email - opened by our team)
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/6c/69c30f418d11d1896e0000e8322d00/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/2b/d926324b8a11d1894c0000e8323c4f/frameset.htm
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Approve Working Time WDA

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We have just implemented Web Dynpro ABAP based Approve Working Time application (Collective Approval iView) replacing the Java based version.
A manager complains that now he has to go into each and every of his employees recordings to check their daily recording while he in the old Java based version could see everything in one view when he clicked the 'Review' button. Off course this is a setback in usability.
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Hi
We are on EP7 with ECC6.0 as backend.
We are trying to use the Approve Working Time iview in MSS but it gives the following error:
Critical Error
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1.Define Approval view: SAP_LINE ( SAP Approval by Line Manager)
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Hi
We are using the standard taskTS20000460. But we want to use the Approve Working Time service iview.
When we were using the evaluation path for approving the working time data through A012( Chief) in MSS, we were able to see all the working times recorded by the subordinates of the said Chief( Manager) in the service Approve Working Time itself, we did not necessarily have go to UWL and approve from there....Now after we have made the required changes in the evaluation path and made A002 as the approver, the same iview Approve Working Time has a message that "No date exists that needs to be approved'.
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Regards
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I don't know if it's the correct place to post this.We are using MSS 1.0 and EP 7 .I have a small problem.For the approval working Time we are using task TS20000460 task and we modified it based on the requirement of the client .Now we have discovered that when manager approves the time in MSS , the infotypes are updated automatically which the client does'nt want that to happen.Is the MSS approval will work the same way or it's because of workflow.Is there any setting to be done so that when the manager approves it the update will go into the CATSDB table but not the infotypes.
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