Processing Time Data Using the Time Manager’s Workplace 
SAP Release 4.6C introduces the Time Manager’s Workplace, providing a user-friendly and task-oriented interface for maintaining time data and processing time evaluation messages. The new interface was specifically designed to meet the needs of time administrators in decentralized departments.
Successful decentralization of time management demands that tools used to manage employee time and labor be comprehensive, efficient, and easy to
navigate
. Time administrators must learn how to use time management functions quickly, and above all, be consistently effectively and supported by their IT system when carrying out their daily tasks.Fulfilling these requirements was the main focus for the development of the Time Manager’s Workplace for the EnjoySAP initiative. A completely redesigned, integrated work environm
e
nt was created for the
Time Manager’s Workplace, one that greatly streamlines and facilitates daily time management processes.
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Time Manager’s WorkplaceThe Time Manager’s Workplace offers the following advantages for your time administrators:
All time data (that is, time data relevant for the SAP Time Management infotypes 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2011, and 2012, as well data for cost assignment, activity allocation, and different payment) can be entered, corrected, and completed on one screen
Time administrators automatically see a list of the employees for whom they are responsible without making any selections manually.
All time data for a time administrator’s employees can be accessed automatically
The following views are available for maintaining time data on one screen:
- Multi-Day View
: All time data for one employee for several days
- Multi-Person View
: All time data for more than one employee for one day
- One-Day View
: All time data for one employee and one day
- Additional contextual information can be easily accessed by your time administrators, including the following details:
- HR master data
- Status of time accounts
- Simple navigation options using a calendar
- By Customizing the profile settings, you can set up the Time Manager’s Workplace to suit the business requirements in your enterprise.
The Time Manager’s Workplace replaces the following application fields:
Working with the Object Manager
Maintaining Time Data Using the Time Data Menu
Maintaining Time Data Using a Calendar
Weekly Time Recording Screen
Maintaining Time Data Using Lists
The following functions
further enhance the usability of
the
Time Manager’s Workplace:
Fast Entry of Time Data for Multiple Employees
Maintaining Time Data Using a Monthly Calendar
Additional functional
enhancements to the
existing
Maintaining Time Data transaction (PA61):- Break times can now be entered for the Attendances infotype (2002) Functionality provided by the Overtime infotype (2005) is now supported in the Attendances infotype (2002). As a result, the Overtime infotype (2005) itself did not need to be included in the new Time Manager’s Workplace. In contrast, the option for entering breaks in Attendances infotype (2002) is now only supported in the Time Manager’s Workplace.
- You can also enter Attendances and absences even if the required quota for this data record is already intended for use in future attendances or absences. During the time recording process, the data record already recorded for the future is automatically reset and the new record is deducted according to existing rules (for example, deduction priority). Then the data record already recorded for the future is deducted from the quota
- The system automatically revaluate the attendances and absences after a change is made in the planned specifications.
Functional restrictions to the existing Maintaining Time Data transaction (PA61):
The following functions from transaction PA61 are not supported in the Time Manager’s Workplace:
- Dynamic actions function is not technically supported
- In SAP Release 4.6C, the function for triggering Workflow items when time infotypes are posted in the Time Manager’s Workplace is not yet realized.
- Collisions in time data are not automatically delimited
- Country-specific restriction for United Kingdom only: Absences containing information relevant to continued pay can not be changed in the Time Manager’s Workplace.