3641259 - Employee Time Sheet approval status reverts to pending after manually change the Approval status to "Approved" via MDF import

• Time sheet approval status was changed to "Approved" manually via MDF import, but the system reverted the status back to "Pending Approval" or "Pending". 
• New Time Sheet is generated after time sheet data is directly changed in DB. 

• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - Time Sheet
• SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking

1. Export the time sheet.
2. Modify the approval status to "Approved".
3. Import the modified file back into the system.
4. Observe that the time sheet approval status is reverted to "Pending" or "Pending Approval" by the system later.

Upon manual change to the Employee Time Sheet object, the timeSheetHash field was cleared.
During the daily Time Management job execution, the Generate Time Sheet job detected a hash mismatch and treated the time sheet as requiring recalculation, resulting in the status change.

This is expected system behavior.
The timeSheetHash field is calculated by the time management backend job to ensure the time sheet data is intact and valid.
It's strongly not recommended to manipulate the time sheet data directly from the DB.
Please refer to the following SAP documentation for guidance on automatic submission and approval of time sheets:

• Automatic Submission of Time Sheets
• Automatic Approval for Stalled Workflows

• SAP Help Portal Documentation: Automatic Submission of Time Sheets
• SAP Help Portal Documentation: Automatic Approval for Stalled Workflows

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SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions ; SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking all versions