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2659982 - Employee Time is Approved once Saving the Time Sheet

Symptom

The Employee Time is approved on save of Time Sheet.

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Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central – Time Sheet
  • SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking

Reproducing the Issue

  • Navigate to Employee's Time sheet UI.
  • Add an entry for a day and click on 'Save':

  • Navigate to Manage Data > Open the Employee Time Sheet generated above.
  • Click on details of the Time Sheet and open the Employee Time:

  •    Click to view the Employee Time:

  • The Employee Time status is set as approved:

Resolution

This is expected behavior. 

For time recording entries saved in Time Sheet, then the related Employee Time gets approved without approved status. And the approval status of Employee Time gets updated as Cancelled once the time sheet is also cancelled. 
Time Sheet does not really utilize the approval status in Employee Time object.

If Single Record Approval is used, then the Approval Status in Employee Time Sheet object and Attendance Request object will be utlized and synced with the workflow for single record Approval. 
While without Single Record Approval, the Approval Status in Employee Time Sheet object will be Not Required.

Keywords

Time Sheet, TimeSheet, Employee Time, Approved, Status, Time Sheet Entry, Time Sheet UI, Auto Approved, attendance, request, single, record, approval, workflow, tms, tracking, ttr , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-TMS , Time Sheet , LOD-SF-TTR , Time Tracking , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions ; SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite all versions ; SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking all versions