Symptom
After changing the employee's availability calendar through modifying the work calendar or a temporary change of work schedule, the already allocated project time is not updated automatically according to the new availability calendar.
For example, the availability calendar before modification is following.
Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
Total Capacity | 8h | 8h | 8h | 8h | 8h | 8h | |
Project | 1h | 1h | 1h | 1h | 1h | 1h |
After modification, the availability calendar become following. The project hour will not automatically updated based on the change of availability calendar.
Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
Total Capacity | 8h | 8h | 8h | 8h | 8h | 8h | |
Project | 1h | 1h | 1h | 1h | 1h | 1h |
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Navigate to Project Management -> Projects.
- Open the issued project.
- Go to Team and Staffing -> Team.
- Select all employees -> Click Show Availability.
Cause
This is the system designed behavior. The already allocated project hour will not updated due to the change of work schedule.
Resolution
After updating the work calendar or work schedule, it is necessary to manually update the employees' availability calendar from the issued project one by one like followings to avoid inconsistency.
- Open the employees' availability calendar from the issued project.
- Select the project in the calendar.
- Click the "Reset Commitment" button to trigger a re-allocation.
See Also
Keywords
Project Management, Time Allocation, Work Schedule, Work Calendar, Employee Availability, Reset Commitment, Project Commitments, Planned Hours , KBA , SRD-HR-TLM , Time and Labour Management , Problem