CATS for service providers enables you to enter working times and tasks both for yourself and for other employees.

You have made the necessary settings in the Implementation Guide under Cross-Application Components ® Time Sheet.

The process from entering data to making it available for transfer to the target components comprises the following required and optional stages:

1. You enter working times (required)
2. You release entered data for approval or for transfer to the target components (required)
3. You check data using an approval procedure (optional)

Once these steps have been completed, the system writes the data to the interface tables for the target components. Depending on whether you use an approval procedure as part of the data entry process, the system writes the data from the database table for the Time sheet (CATSDB) to the interface tables:

• Following approval of a record, if you use an approval procedure
• Following the release of a record, if you do not use an approval procedure

Depending on the settings in the data entry profile, the data can be released manually during entry or automatically when the record is saved. For more information, see the Implementation Guide under Cross-Application Components ® Time Sheet ® Specific Settings for CATS for service provides ® Set Up Data Entry Profiles.