PS 2007 Planned Absence

[Mike Mahoney]

Planned Absence feature is excellent for updating resource calendars
but there is a gotcha with the resulting Timesheet. When using this
feature PWA does two things it creates exceptions in the resource
calendar and it also creates a timesheet for the affected period.
Clearly at this stage impacted plans are not aware of the resource
calendar change. Open and republish and all is fine except the
timesheet for that holday period has already been created by defining
the planned absence and typically displays scheduled work during your
holiday! Delete the timesheet and recreate it - oops this deletes
your planned absence and remove it from calendar exceptions. An
improvement request maybe?

Mike

 

[Jonathan Sofer]

Lack of visibility into resource calendars remains an issue in 2007 and
being able to affect resource calendars via "Non Working" admin time is a
possible new headache in that arena. But you don't have to make the planned
absense line items "Non Working". If you change it to "Working" it will not
affect the resource calendars. Future timesheets will always be created
when defining future work/non work. I don't see that this will change in
their design.

Jonathan

 

[/pd]

Does anyone know if the resource calendar gets automatically updated with
'non working' time once a Vacation period is approved by the resource manager
?

Or does the resource manager need to update resoucere calendar manually ?

/pd

 

[Mike Mahoney]

Does anyone know if the resource calendar gets automatically updated with
'non working' time once a Vacation period is approved by the resource manager
?

Or does the resource manager need to update resoucere calendar manually ?

/pd






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/pd

I think the default is self approval for non-working time, but can be
set for approval by timesheet manager. In the first case it will
update resource calendar immediately, in the second approval is
required.

regards

Mike