User Interfaces
The Cross-Application Time Sheet (SAP CATS) is available in different user interfaces. This enables you to tailor time recording to suit your requirements.
The graphic displays the user interfaces of the time sheet in relation to the CATS application. Although the user interfaces are suited to different data entry requirements, they all use the same application logic and save data in the same database table.
User Interfaces
CATS classic
is the original user interface of the Cross-Application Time Sheet in the SAP back-end system. It is particularly suited to users who also use the system to complete other tasks.
CATS classic
is the most suitable user interface for entering working times for multiple personnel numbers, for example, by secretaries.
CATS regular/Record Working Time (Web-Dynpro)
CATS regular
offers a similar data entry screen and comparable features to
CATS classic.
However, this user interface has been optimized for use as an Employee Self-Service (ESS) application in a Web browser.
The data entry screen of the
Mobile Time Sheet (MTS)
is similar to that of
CATS classic
and
CATS regular
, and it also runs in the Web browser.
CATS notebook
is designed for use with notebooks, and is particularly suited to employees who have to travel a lot and cannot always have a connection to the SAP system to record their working times.
MTS
stores the entered working time data in the notebook. The next time it is connected to the SAP system, the
MTS
synchronizes this data store with the CATS database. The technology used to synchronize the data ensures that you can change the working times in
MTS
and in the SAP system. When you use a notebook to record working times, the
MTS
provides you with the most important working time attributes in picklists.
CATS for service providers
provides an alternative to the data entry screen that is available with
CATS classic, CATS regular,
and the
MTS.
The data entry screen for
CATS for service providers
is based on recording billable services, and therefore does not resemble a traditional paper timesheet.
CATS for service providers
enables you to specify basic data that is valid for more than one day. You can then record task components (such as miles/kilometers driven, overtime, and so on). See
Task Type, Component, and Level
. The following restriction currently exists when combining
CATS for service providers
with other user interfaces of the Time Sheet: In the other independent user interfaces, you can only display but not change data that you entered with
CATS for service providers
. In
CATS for service providers,
you can only display, not change, data that you entered with other user interfaces.
Note
For information about the technical names and system environment of the Time Sheet user interfaces, see Overview: Technical Details .