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3465072 - Error: "Total duration of all recorded times exceeds 24 hrs" when Approving or Releasing Times

Symptom

When approving Times you receive the error "Total duration of all recorded times exceeds 24 hrs" despite there being less than 24 hrs recorded.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Time Administration
  2. Employees
  3. Search for the affected Employee
  4. Approve or Release hours 
  5. System gives Error: Total duration of all recorded times exceeds 24 hrs

Cause

This can be caused by the interaction between Duration Based Time Recording (maintaining the number of hours, as opposed to a Start and End Time) and Core Hours Time. 

Duration based Time Entries will never be considered to overlap with any Core Hours maintained in the Time Model.

E.g.:  If Core Hours are maintained between 10:00-14:00, only 20 hours will be available to book with Duration Based Time Recordings. 

Resolution

Recommendation from Support is to avoid Core Hours/Flex Time when using Duration based Time Recording.

See Also

See KBA 2926654 - Some of Time Recordings are Incomplete Instead of Complete Status - Part 2 for more details.

Keywords

recording, recordings, approval, approve, , KBA , SRD-HR-TLM , Time and Labour Management , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions