'My Timesheets' and 'Planned Administrative Time'

[ben]

Hi all,

Just a quick question on whether people actually use the 'Plan
Administrative Time' function together with 'My Timesheets'.

The scenario is this:

1. User applies for a day's holiday in a month's time by creating the
timesheet for that period and clicking the 'Plan Administrative Time'
button. This gets approved.

2. Time elapses and the week arrives. When the user goes to complete
the previously created timesheet for that week, they have to now
manually add all the specific tasks for that week using the 'Add
lines' function. (clunky interface for users to scroll through
looking for their tasks.)

3. If they decide to delete their timesheet and create a new one
that's auto-populated with tasks, the approved holiday day is deleted
as well, and the holiday is removed from their resource calendar too.
(I was hoping that the approved day would stay in the resource
calendar and reappear in the newly recreated timesheet.)


I'd like to explore out-of-the-box workarounds first before investing
in a third-party tool, so was interested in whether other people have
got a tricky little workaround or have developed a process around this
issue.

Thanks in advance for any feedback/comments/suggestions..

Cheers,
Ben

 

[Ben]

Further to this, am I right in assuming most people keep the process
of planning administrative time outside of Project Server? Perhaps
get someone in HR to update Resource Calendars appropriately? It's a
shame they haven't provided an integration option between Enterprise
Resource Calendars and Exchange-based Calendars (that can easily be
viewed in Outlook)...