SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3443406 - Unable to Create Project with Unit of Measurement Meters, Meter Squared or Meter Cubed

Symptom

You are part of construction industry and hence you would like to execute the create and process the project with Unit of measurement in Meters, Meter squared or meter cubed not in hours. 

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Project Management work center
  2. Go to Projects view
  3. Go to Create a New Project
  4. In Project Plan - Gantt Chart, select project header
  5. Go to subtab Project Settings, General - Unit of Work
  6. Try to enter the unit of measurement as Meters etc.
  7. It is not possible to enter other unit of measurements other than Hours/Working Days

Cause

The Unit of Work option is designed to measure project members' work/service maintained under Work subtab. System only supports hours and Working Days as a unit of measurement. 

For the goods maintained under Materials subtab, users can use UpM as Meters etc according to the material's master data setting.

Resolution

The new set of unit of measurements like Meters, Meter squared or meter cubed is a new requirement. Hence we kindly request you to post the idea in influence forum - 

https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/886

Keywords

Create Project with Unit of Measurement Meters, Meter Squared or Meter Cubed; Unit of measurement of projects in Meters , KBA , SRD-PRO-PMN , Project Management , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 2402