EEX 9.2: Denied Project Lines From Time Report Are Distributed To Project Costing. (Doc ID 3081476.1)

Last updated on APRIL 14, 2025

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Symptoms

Denied project lines from Time Report are distributed to Project Costing.

When a time report is submitted with single project and the project manager denies those lines then those rows do not get processed through expense processing and Cost Collection Process and do not reflect in PROJ_RESOURCE table.

But in contrary, when a time report is submitted with 2 different projects and project manager of 1st project denies the first project lines and project manager of 2nd Project approves the project working hour lines of 2nd Project then in this case the denied projects lines also gets processed through expense processing and cost collection process and appear in PROJ_RESOURCE table.

The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:
REPLICATION STEPS
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1. Sign in as VP1.
2. Navigate to user profiles (PeopleTools - Security - User Profiles - User Profiles). Verify the setup for MGR1 (KU0006) and MGR2 (KU0071) to make sure of the employee ids.
3. Navigate to approval registry setup for time approval (SetUP Financials / Supply Chain - Product Related - Expenses - Management - Approval SetUp - Map Approval Trans Definition). Make sure the HR Supervisor and Project Manager approvals are selected and Deny action is enabled for both.
4. Navigate to create a project (Project Costing - Project Definitions - Define Project General Info).
4a. Create 2 projects.
4b. Add project activity for both the projects.
c. Add KU0071 (MGR2) to the project 1 and check Project Manager box.
4d. Add KU0006 (MGR1) to the project 2 and check Project Manager box.
5. Navigate to create a time report (Home - Employee Self Service - Time Entry).
5a. Create a time report for Project 1 and submit for approval.
6. Sign out as VP1 and sign as MGR1.
7. Deny the time report submitted for approval.
8. Sign out as MGR1 and sign in as VP1
9. Verify the time report status to be denied (Home - Employee Self Service - Time Report).
10.Navigate to Expense Processing (Travel and Expenses - Process Expenses - Expense Processing). Time report cannot be found to be processed to Project Costing.
11.Navigate to time report (Home - Employee Self Service - Time Entry).
11a.Create a time report containing both projects: project 1 = 8 hours, project 2 = 12 hours and submit for approval.
12.Sign out as VP1 and sign in as MGR1 and approve the time report.
13.Sign out as MGR1 and sign in as MGR2 and deny the first project. Observe that the time report is in Approved status.
14.Sign out as MGR2 and sign in as VP1.
15.Navigate to Expense Processing (Travel and Expenses - Process Expenses - Expense Processing). Time report is available to process to Project Costing. Run the process.
16.All the lines, including the denied ones are staged and then distributed to Project Costing.

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