SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3315427 - System Shows Unassigned Time and Expense Items for Project

Symptom

System shows unassigned time and expense items for project despite all expenses were assigned by the user.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Project Management work center
  2. Go to Not Invoiced Time and Expenses view
  3. Select the relevant Project
  4. You can see Time and Expenses not assigned appears with some value 

Cause

In Not invoiced Time and Expenses view, the count for expenses not assigned to sales order includes two things

  • Not assigned to sales order which are visible in Edit Time and Expenses. In this case, all of the expenses are assigned to sales order, so net count is 0. 
  • Project invoice request which have "in preparation" status and where expenses are not assigned to any sales order. 

Resolution

You can follow the below steps to solve the problem;

  1. Go to Project Management work center
  2. Go to Not Invoiced Time and Expenses view
  3. Click on Edit Project Invoice Request.
  4. It will open the corresponding Project invoice Request 
  5. Select Items tab, followed by Time and Expenses tab 
  6. Under Summarized by : Employee/Party select the relevant employee and scroll down to see the expense items
  7. Select the line and click on Item details, you will see no sales order item is assigned to the expense
  8. Make sure you assign the expenses and release the Project invoice request which are in In Preparation status

Keywords

Unassigned Time and Expense Items for Project shows as 2; Unassigned Time and Expense Items; Not Invoiced Time and Expenses view;Time and Expenses not assigned , KBA , AP-PRO , Project Processing , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 2302