Approve Working Times (Report RCATS_APPROVE_ACTIVITIES)

Use

Report RCATS_APPROVE_ACTIVITIES ( Approve Working Times) enables you to approved recorded working times.

Prerequisites

  • Employees have used a data entry profile that includes an approval step to record their working times.

  • Employees have saved and, if necessary, released their working times.

Features

The programs Approve Working Times and Approve Working Times and Travel Expenses are based on the same technology and have the following features:

Selection

The following criteria are available to you for selecting data:

  • Selection using the Personnel Administration (PA) database

    This option allows you to select employees based on their organizational assignment (for example employee subgroup, cost center, and so on).

  • Selection using organizational structure:

    You can use the following object types :

    Object type

    Description

    Object ID

    O

    Organizational unit

    Organizational unit number

    S

    Position

    Position number

    P

    Person

    Personnel number

  • Selection using the time sheet database

    With this option, you can use important working time attributes to select data (network, cost center, or purchase order, for example).

    Note Note

    End of the note.

    By selecting framework data, receiver account assignment, sender account assignment, and data sources, you can have the relevant selection criteria displayed. For more information on selection criteria, see SAP Note 570342.

    • Note that by selecting personnel numbers for approval, you lock them for processing in other applications. You should therefore try to keep the number of selected personnel numbers and processing time to a minimum.

    • Personnel numbers are not selected if:

      1. You have no authorization for them

      2. They are locked because they are being processed elsewhere

Output

  • For ease of use, only the most frequently used functions are displayed in the tool bar on the initial screen.

  • You can enhance the toolbar twice using Additional Functions and reduce it again using Minimal Functions.

  • The Approve and Reject functions enable you to approve and reject data records. When you reject a data record, a screen is displayed automatically on which you can specify a rejection reason.

  • You can display detailed information about important working time attributes.

  • If you have sufficient authorization, the Change function enables you to go directly to the processing of data records where you can make the relevant changes.

    When you call a data record in change mode that was entered using CATS for service providers, this user interface is started. When you call a data record in change mode that was not entered using CATS for service providers, CATS classic is started.

  • You can calculate totals and subtotals.

  • The Document Flow function enables you to obtain the following information about a data record:

    • The various processors

    • The date on which a change was made

    • The target components to which the data record is transferred

Result

You have approved or rejected data records for the employees assigned to you. The approved records are ready for transfer to the target component(s) .