3793960 - Design and Restrictions of Consolidated Time Recording in S/4HANA Public Cloud

This KBA lists the current design and restrictions with Consolidated Time Recording with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and SAP SuccessFactors (CTR).

1. Can we enable workflow on SF time sheet side ?
2. Is clock time recording in CTR on S/4HANA Public Cloud supported ?
3. What are the supported time sheet approval periods in CTR solution ?
4. Display of planned working time details on the S/4HANA Manage Timesheet UI do not show the planned fix break defined in the Work Schedule.
5. Cross-midnight recording, and allowance recording cannot be recorded.
6. Why are some SF time sheet alerts missing on S/4HANA Manage Timesheet UI during validation ?
7. Why does the Alert and Error type time valuation message not block the submission of attendance recording on S/4HANA Manage Timesheet UI ?
8. Is real time display of absence requested on SF side to S/4 side supported ?
9. Is it possible to request absence on S/4HANA Manage Timesheet app directly for CTR users ?
10. Is Global Assignment supported by Consolidated Time Recording ?
11. Will recalculations happened on SF side be synchronized with S/4HANA Manage Timesheet for CTR users ?
12. Will records that were saved on S/4HANA Manage Timesheet app but failed to replicate to SF be automatically preprocessed ?
13. Is it possible to replicate non-approved attendance recordings from S/4HANA Manage Timesheet app to SF Time Sheet side ?
14. Is it possible to directly assign cost centers to attendance recordings in CTR on S/4HANA Public Cloud Manage Timesheet ?

• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
• SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking
• S/4HANA Public Cloud

1. Can we enable workflow on SF time sheet side ?
   Workflow should not be configured on SF time sheet side at all, including Single Record Approval as well as time sheet submission workflow.
   Instead any time related workflow approval needed should be configured on the S/4HANA My Timesheet side, as documented in Approvals and Workflow Configuration for Consolidated Time Recording.
   Then based on the default submission and approval logic on SF side as explained in KBA 2738965, the SF time sheets will be auto submitted and approved directly on approval. 
   It is possible to manipulate the auto submission date on your end by utilizing Auto Submission Deviation and Time Recording Calendar, but please do not adjust the auto submission logic via Time Sheet Submission rule to prevent CTR time sheets from staying on pending submission on SF side. 
   Also it is not recommended to set the SF Time Sheet to 'Approved' status every time when a new time sheet entry comes from S4. Instead please configure the Time recording submission configuration such that the SF Time Sheet is submitted only when the time sheet period is over. 
2. Is clock time recording in CTR on S/4HANA Public Cloud supported ?
   Currently only Duration based recording is supported in S/4HANA Public Cloud Time Sheet. Clock time recordings including break handling is in future roadmap. 
3. What are the supported time sheet approval periods in CTR solution ?
   Only weekly time sheets are supported now. 
   And it is needed to ensure the same start date of time sheet week on both S/4 and SF sides.
4. Display of planned working time details on the S/4HANA Manage Timesheet UI do not show the planned fix break defined in the Work Schedule.
   It is possible to display planned working time details on the S/4HANA Fiori Time Sheet side, according to the work schedule assigned on the SF side.
   It currently only displays the planned working time, but does not display the planned fix break configured within the work schedule, nor dynamic break assigned in Job Info.
5. Cross-midnight recording, and allowance recording cannot be recorded.
   Cross-midnight recording and allowance recording are not supported in the initial (2608) version of CTR with S/4HANA Manage Timesheet app. 
6. Why are some SF time sheet alerts missing on S/4HANA Manage Timesheet UI during validation ?
   Validation action on S/4HANA Manage Timesheet after attendance recording is designed to trigger time valuation simulation on SF time sheet side, so as to return any warning or error raised on SF time sheet time valuation. 
   But it is noticed some alerts seem to be lost on S/4HANA Fiori Time Sheet UI during validation, and these alerts are raised in second-level time valuation on SF time sheet side.
   Second-level time valuation on SF time sheet side refers to the time valuation that requires daily time containers as input to generate flexible period valuation results, including but not limited to Rest Rules, Overtime cumulation in a flexible period different from time sheet approval time, etc. 
   Please understand, currently, it is a technical restriction that second-level time valuation alerts from SF time sheet cannot be returned during validation. 
   KBA 3787342 - Second-level time valuation alerts not visible in S/4HANA Time Sheet for Consolidated Time Recording (CTR) 
7. Why does the Alert and Error type time valuation message not block the submission of attendance recording on S/4HANA Manage Timesheet UI ?
   The Alert and Error type time valuation message will not block the saving of the recording on SF time sheet, instead it prevents the SF time sheet submission on SF side.
   The attendance submission on the S/4HANA Manage Timesheet app is of a different submission and approval workflow and totally independent from the SF time sheet submission, so the Alert and Error type time valuation message cannot stop the submission of attendance submission on S/4 side.
   So in order to prevent data inconsistency between S/4HANA Manage Timesheet and SF time sheet, it is suggested not to use Alert and Error type time valuation on SF side. 
8. Is real time display of absence requested on SF side to S/4 side supported ?
   Yes, it is supported in CTR on S/4HANA Public Cloud. We have real time reading of absences from SF Time Off.
9. Is it possible to request absence on S/4HANA Manage Timesheet app directly for CTR users ?
   It is not yet possible.
10. Is Global Assignment supported by Consolidated Time Recording ?
    It is not yet supported.
11. Will recalculations happened on SF side be synchronized with S/4HANA Manage Timesheet for CTR users ?
    No. This is a known restriction now that the recalculation happened on SF side will not be synced back to S/4HANA Public Cloud side. 
12. Will records that were saved on S/4HANA Manage Timesheet app but failed to replicate to SF be automatically preprocessed ?
    In case of a failure, the background job automatically retries the sync twice at 60-second intervals.
    If the sync still fails after three attempts, it is logged in the AIF logs, where it is possible to manually reprocess it at later point of time.
13. Is it possible to replicate non-approved attendance recordings from S/4HANA Manage Timesheet app to SF Time Sheet side ?
    As of now, only approved attendance recordings on S/4HANA Manage Timesheet app will be synced with SF time sheet.
14. Is it possible to directly assign cost centers to attendance recordings in CTR on S/4HANA Public Cloud Manage Timesheet ?
    It is not supported to directly assign any cost center to attendance recordings in the new S/4HANA Public Cloud Manage Timesheet app yet.
    Currently, it is only possible to do attendance recordings on PSA projects (Professional Services projects).

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