SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2954205 - Employee Unable to Enter Time in Availability Calendar

Symptom

You as an Employee, trying to enter the time (commitments) in Availability Calendar through Resource Management but the cells are read-only

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Resource Management work center
  2. Go to Resource Search view
  3. Search and highlight the Employee
  4. Select Show Availability
  5. Expand until Project level

Cause

There are multiple reasons which might have caused the issue, some of them are

1. There was lock a when the re-distribution of Planned time was executed

2. Message from project to resource is failed

3. System was not able to distribute the planned working hours

Resolution

To resolve the issue,

1. Go to Resource Management work center

2. Go to Resource Search view

3. Search for the employee

4. Select Show Availability button

5. Highlight the project "XYZ" and select "Reset Commitments"

6. Select 'yes' in the pop up dialog

Now the system will re-distribute the planned times to respective days

Keywords

Show Availability, availability calendar, unable to enter time, resource search, reset commitments, distribute , KBA , SRD-HR-RPM , Resource Pool Management , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 2005 ; SAP Business ByDesign 2008 ; SAP Business ByDesign 2011