PS2007 Timesheet Approvals

[Tom Godbold]

How does an administrator (or someone else) approve a timesheet if the
Resource Manager is out of the office?

Scenario: Bill is the Resource Manager, Suzy is the Team Lead. Suzy
submits her timesheet, but Bill is out of the office on vacation.

Note: Fixed timesheet approval routing is enabled, so Suzy cannot change
the next timesheet approver.

Thanks very much.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Tom Godbold --

This is one of the flaws in the design of the timesheet approval process.
When an RM is out of the office, there should be a way for someone else to
approve his/her timesheets, but alas, there isn't. One of the members of
this community suggestested a workaround to this problem, which is to create
a "dummy" user account specifically for approving timesheets. And then you
need to set the dummy account as the Timesheet Manager for each resource.
Hope this helps.