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Technical Data

Runtime Technology

Java/Web Dynpro

Technical Name of iView

com.sap.pct.erp.ess.recordworktime

com.sap.pct.erp.ess.releaseworktime

Technical Name of Web Dynpro Application

sap.com/ess~cat/CatDataRecord

sap.com/ess~cat/CatDataRelease

Available as of

SAP NetWeaver 2004s

Data Origin

SAP ECC 6.00 and higher

RFC function modules called:

·        HRXSS_CAT_WD*

Software Component

EA-HR 500 and higher

Support

CA-TS-IA-XS

Use

This Web application enables your employees to record their working times and assign these to a project, order or other SAP application objects. You can also connect an optional approval procedure.

Features

·        This Web application is available in the Business Package for Employee Self-Service (mySAP ERP). For more information, see Employee Self-Service.

Note

This application has been developed for the software component EA-HR. Subsequent enhancements and corrections to the software are available in HR Support Packages.

·        To provide employees with as much information as possible, as simply as possible, the Working Time homepage includes dynamic links to the individual services of the Web application. For more information, see Services for CATS regular (Web-Dynpro).

·        Two views are available for recording working times:

¡        Week View: The week view always displays one week. It provides employees with a quick overview of their working time recorded for the week. The week view is ideal for employees who do not record a wide variety of different activities or working time attributes for a particular day.

¡        Day View: The day view provides employees with a quick overview of all the data they have recorded for a particular day. In addition to the fields available in the week view, the day view also enables employees to record their activities with clock times (depending on the profile settings) and add a short text.

For each data record, employees are able to go to a detail screen. Here, employees can view or enter further information about a data record. In this way, employees can enter confirmation information for a network and enter further information about a data record in the form of a long text.

·        A calendar that spans several months is integrated on the data entry screen. This calendar provides employees with a quick overview of the days on which they have recorded too many or too few working hours. It also displays the days for which data records exist that have not yet been released or have been rejected. If there are multiple status information texts for one particular day, the most important one is displayed.

·        Employees can change the data entry period in the following ways:

¡        If they click on a particular day in the calendar, the appropriate week is displayed in the data entry section.

¡        They choose the arrow keys next to the date display to display the previous and next period.

¡        They enter a date in the desired week and choose Go.

·        They can use a worklist if the profile settings permit this. The worklist makes it easier for employees to record their working times since it allows them to copy information about planned activities to the data entry section quickly.

·        Employees can save the working time attributes recorded for a particular week or day as a personal template.

·        For the majority of working time attributes, they can use a search function to display a list of possible values for these input fields. The system can automatically determine important working time attributes, such as the sender cost center, the controlling area, or the activity type from the employee’s HR master record.

·        If the working time attributes displayed are identical, the rows in the data entry section are merged. Note that in the merged rows the working time attributes that are not displayed in the service may vary.

·        If you want to have the data approved, you can use the approval workflow.

Prerequisites

·        You use SAP Cross-Application Time Sheet (CATS).

·        The Time Sheet must be set up. For the Web application, you can use the model data entry profile ESS, which has been designed to meet the special requirements of Employee Self-Service. For more information, see the Implementation Guide for the Cross-Application Time Sheet.

·        You must have created personnel numbers in the SAP system for all employees who are to record data. The personnel number must be related to the employee’s system user name in the Communication (0105) infotype. For more information, see Assigning an SAP User ID to a Personnel Number.

·        You have used the user parameter CVR to assign each employee a specific data entry profile, which they use to enter their working times. This profile determines the data entry process and the layout of the time sheet.

If this user parameter has not been stored, the system uses the ESS data entry profile as standard.

·        You have assigned all users the required authorizations. SAP delivers a standard role that contains these authorizations.

Constraints

Compared with CATS classic, the following constraints exist for this Web application:

·        Since CATS regular is an Employee Self-Service application, time administrators or data entry personnel cannot recording working time data.

·        The following SAP enhancements are not supported by CATS regular:

¡        CATS0004 (Deactivate Functions on the User Interface) You make the necessary settings in Customizing.

¡        CATS0007 (Subscreen on Initial Screen)

¡        CATS0011 (Customer Functions)

¡        CATS0012 (Subscreen on Data Entry Screen)

 

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