SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2526263 - Approval Task isn't Sent to Person Responsible of the Project Task

Symptom

You have recorded times against a Project Task. The person responsible for this Project Task didn't receive the approval tasks for the time recordings done on the tasks he's responsible for.
All the approvals go to the person responsible at project header level.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Time Administration work centre.
  2. Go to Time Sheets view.
  3. Find the employee who recorded the times.
  4. Select Open Time Sheet.
  5. Select the recorded time.

In the Details of the recorded time, the Approver maintained is the Project Manager from the header level and not the person responsible at the task level.

Cause

You have chosen time recording approver as' Project lead'

Resolution

Select the Project Header task and go to  tab 'Project settings' where you can choose either 'project lead' or 'task owner'

 'Project lead' is header task responsible person

 'Task owner' is respective task responsible person

Keywords

KBA , AP-PRO , Project Processing , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions