Dear IFS Community,
I have a question regarding the ability to register time to shop order operations even after the shop order and the connected project have been closed.
In our organization, we've encountered situations where our employees have accidentally recorded time to shop order operations, and we've noticed that the system allows this even if the shop order and the connected project is closed (i.e. project management project is in closed status and financial project is in completed status).
I am curious to understand why system allows this and whether this intended functionality within IFS Applications, or is it a configuration setting that we are able to adjust?
As a consequence, both the financial project, the project management project and the related activity need to be reopened to transfer the transactions to General Ledger- This results in unnecessary extra work for anyone performing the transfers.
Another issue this creates is that time registration is prone to errors, as it is possible to register time to all the shop order operations, even those that are closed.
I would greatly appreciate any insights, advice, or information that the experienced members of this community can provide on this topic. Your expertise would be invaluable in helping us better manage our processes and ensure the accuracy of our data.
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Best regards,
Lauri / Cimcorp
Time registrations to Shop Order Operations: why it's possible even if shop order and connected project is closed?
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we have the same question - did you ever receive an answer for this?
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Hello ghaschke,
The above issue is still open. It has not been addressed by IFS Community members or by IFS support. 😞
I hope it gets attention now that there are others with the same issue.
Br. Lauri
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Hello,
The system functionality will allow clockings to be added or modified even if the operation or order is in a closed state.
The reason for this is to allow corrections to be made or clockings to be created at a later time, in some businesses to add their clockings after the shop order has been processed and receipted.
When a new clocking has been added or modified to a closed shop order the application should reopen and close to allow cost calculations to be corrected.
Hope this clears this up?
Thanks,
Jamie
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I can now see bugs 150918 and 160753 were raised. Looks like these were added UPD14 for activity related shop orders.
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Hello,
We are running IFS Cloud Application SU 23.1.6 and the issue exists: it’s possible to clock time even when the Project is closed and the Project completed. Does this mean the bug has slipped to later versions?
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At minimum, there should be an option to allow/disallow such an operation in basic settings, since the requirement is not generic but relevant to specific businesses, as
Best regards,
Lauri
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I have quickly taken a look at the code within Cloud and can see some validation within the SHOP_ORD_API - Open procedure.
I seems to check if the connected Activity Seq is either Closed or Completed, if it doesnt then an error appears,
This Shop Order is connected to Activity :P1 in Project :P2 and the Activity is :P3. Re-open is only allowed when in status Released
During the adding / modification of clockings it might not execute this exact procedure. Might be worth testing,
- Trying to Re-open a Shop Order connected to a closed or completed activity sequence
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- Creating / Modifying a Clocking against a Shop Order connected to a closed or completed activity sequence
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