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Is IFS able to restrict project time entry to specified individuals ?


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I think the answer is probably going to be no but you never know so I’ll ask anyway.

In the same company we have two distinct business units that both use projects but in the same way. Lets call them business unit A and business unit B. Both business units have different sets of engineers assigned to them. Business unit A wants to prohibit engineers from business unit B from booking time to projects belonging to business unit A.. We thought about using project access on but that casts too wide a net and would impact common support groups like purchasing and finance that support both business units which would make the access groups painful to continually maintain. We were hoping at the time entry level there was an easy way to make projects (or sub projects, or activities for that matter) invisible to those engineers that shouldn’t be able to book time to them..   

Best answer by EqeMithuV

Hi @OzHoward ,

Just a thought, can you use different report codes for business units and allocate them to the respective projects as valid report codes. Then employee cannot book hours to project of business unit B using the report code of business unit A. 

This is not full proof solution as employees are free to choose the report code. 

Regards,

Mithun K V

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  • Superhero (Partner)
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  • June 3, 2023

Hi @OzHoward ,

Just a thought, can you use different report codes for business units and allocate them to the respective projects as valid report codes. Then employee cannot book hours to project of business unit B using the report code of business unit A. 

This is not full proof solution as employees are free to choose the report code. 

Regards,

Mithun K V


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  • Do Gooder (Customer)
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  • June 5, 2023

Thanks Mithun.

That’s what we will probably end up doing. We can allocate a unique report code for Business Unit A, and then in the labor rate set up only allocate a cost for time entered with the new unique report code. Then tell Business Unit A employees they can only use the unique report code, and tell Business Unit B employees they can’t use the unique code. That way if Business Unit B employees enter time on projects for Business Unit A then it won’t be costed.  


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