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1 Time Sheet Review - Functional Specifications o 1.1 Overview 1.1.1 Purpose 1.1.2 Scope o 1.2 Current functionality 1.2.1 Time sheet recording 1.2.2 Time sheet approval 1.2.3 Time sheet billing 1.2.4 Time sheet reporting o 1.3 Areas of improvement o 1.4 Functional Requirements

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1.5 1.6 1.7

1.4.1 User roles & profiles 1.4.2 Business Process Definition 1.4.2.1 Time Sheet Recording 1.4.2.2 Time Sheet Approval 1.4.2.3 Time Sheet Billing 1.4.2.4 Time Sheet Reporting 1.4.3 User Stories 1.4.3.1 Time Sheet Recording 1.4.3.2 Time Sheet Approval 1.4.3.3 Time Sheet Billing 1.4.3.4 Time Sheet Reporting 1.4.4 Functional requirements based on business processes 1.4.4.1 Time Sheet Recording 1.4.4.2 Time Sheet Approval 1.4.4.3 Time Sheet Billing 1.4.4.4 Time Sheet Reporting 1.4.5 User Interface Mockups 1.4.5.1 Time Sheet Recording 1.4.5.2 Time sheet approval 1.4.5.3 Time Sheet Billing 1.4.5.4 Time sheet reporting Technical Requirements Open Discussion Items Closed Discussion Items 1.7.1 GRO 1.7.1.1 Time reporting 1.7.1.2 Expense reporting

Time Sheet Review - Functional Specifications

Overview

Purpose
Recording and reporting of time sheets is not optimized in Openbravo ERP. This project aims to address this functional issue.

Scope
This project will 1. 2. 3. for the business processes of 1. 2. 3. 4. time sheet recording, time sheet approval, time sheet billing, and time sheet reporting. review the current functionality, define and prioritize the areas of improvement, and develop enhancements

Current functionality

Time sheet recording

1. User story 1. Today, John has being devoting 8 hours to the consultancy project he is participating on. His manager has told him to record every single hour that he spends on this project since this will allow him to calculate the profitability of the project. John enters a time sheet line, selects the concept (product), records a quantity of 8 and selects the project. 2. John has also being told that for this project and the consultancy hours concept, the customer has to be re-billed so he sets this time sheet line as reinvoiceable. Business process 1. John records a new expense sheet or opens an existing and not processed one (Project & Service Management || Transactions || Expense Sheet || Header). 2. He creates a new line (Project & Service Management || Transactions || Expense Sheet || Header >> Lines) and: 1. ticks Time Sheet check-box, 2. ticks Reinvoicing check-box, 3. selects Consultancy product (UOM is set to Hours automatically), 4. sets 8 as Quantity, 5. leaves Invoice Price blank (the customer will be re-invoiced based on his price list), 6. sets today as the Expense Date, 7. adds some Comments, 8. selects the Project (Business Partner is automatically selected).

2.

Time sheet approval

1. User story 1. Tim, John's manager, reviews each of John's time sheet lines. 2. If they are correct, he approves the time sheet header. 3. If not, he makes the necessary changes and then approves the time sheet header. Business process 1. Tim filters John's time (expense) sheets (Project & Service Management || Transactions || Expense Sheet || Header). 2. For each of them, he has to review the hours spent, the project, the re-invoicing check-box and

2.

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the business partner (Project & Service Management || Transactions || Expense Sheet || Header >> Lines). When every data is OK, he comes back to the header and clicks on Process Expenses button.

Time sheet billing

1. User story 1. Sarah, the accountant, is in charge of billing the re-invoiceable time sheet lines to project's customers. 2. This implies: 1. Having a look at the processed time sheet lines to be re-invoiced to the customer. 2. Launch the process to create the sales orders for this customer with the corresponding time sheet lines. Business process 1. Sarah filters processed time sheet lines associated to a certain customer (Project & Service Management || Transactions || Invoiceable Expenses). 2. She can review the time sheet lines (Project & Service Management || Transactions || Invoiceable Expenses || Customer >> Lines) and, if something is wrong and she has permissions, un-process the time sheet, correct the time sheet lines and process the time sheet again (Project & Service Management || Transactions || Expense Sheet || Header >> Lines). 3. When everything is correct, she creates the sales order(s) from the time sheet lines selecting the previous customer (Project & Service Management || Transactions || Create Sales Orders from Expenses). 4. She finally reviews the sale order(s) created (Sales Management || Transactions || Sales Order || Header) that will lead to invoices which, once completed, will be reflected in the project profitability report.

2.

Time sheet reporting

1. User story 1. Project Profitability 1. Tim wants to report the profitability of the project where John has being involved on. 2. The profitability (real gross margin -RGM-) will be given by the remainder of: 1. The amount that the customer has being invoiced for the

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services that he has received (real revenue -RR-). 2. Minus the cost of the project in terms of human resources, that is, the hours that each employee devoted to provide those services times the amount that each employee is paid for each hour of labour (real cost -RC-). 3. RGM=RR-RC or RGM%=(RR-RC)*100/RR 4. If RGM is negative (RGM<0), the project was NOT profitable: the company lost money with it. 5. If RGM is positive (RGM>0), the project was profitable: the company earned money with it. 6. If RGM is zero (RGM=0), the project was balanced between revenues and cost but the company did not earned money. 2. Time Report 1. Tim wants to see how many hours his employees have being devoting to the project so far. This will tell him, knowing the status of the project and the average hours devoted at this stage, if this project is on track or if it is overpassing the average cost in man hours. 2. He displays a time report, filtering by the project, and he gets the data that he was looking for. Business process 1. Project Profitability 1. Tim goes to the Project Profitability Report (Project & Service Management || Analysis Tools || Project Profitability). 2. He selects the corresponding project and clicks on HTML Format button. 1. Services Real Revenue shows him the amount that has already being invoiced to the customer for the services that he has received. 2. Services Real Cost shows him the cost in man hours burned so far devoted to provide services to the customer of the project. 3. Services Real Margin % shows the % of profit in terms of services provided for this project. 4. Real Gross Margin shows him the profit of the project including the collateral expenses (taxis, hotels, servers, etc...). 5. Real Gross Margin % shows him the profit of the project in %

including the collateral expenses (taxis, hotels, servers, etc...). 2. Time Report 1. Tim goes to the Expense Report (Project & Service Management || Analysis Tools || Expense Report). 2. He filters by the project and clicks on HTML Format button. 3. The report shows him: 1. The total hours (with their cost) devoted in providing services to the customer of the project. 2. The employee hours (with their cost) devoted in providing services to the customer of the project.

Areas of improvement
Areas of improvement of time sheet recording, approval, billing and reporting are listed and prioritized at Time Sheet Review - Areas of improvement spreadsheet. They are sorted descendantly by Requirement score column: higher functional impact with lower difficulty. Any feedback is welcome at the project forum.

Functional Requirements

User roles & profiles

The following three roles are involved in this process : Employee Responsible for creating time sheet everyday with proper project description. Needs to submit the form for approval for monthly/weekly/daily basis. Manager Responsible for reviewing the time sheet, he/she has the authority to approve/disapprove the time sheet. If the time sheet line can be reinvoiceable, should send/process the document to finance team. Finance Manager Responsible to make sales order from time sheet lines if all details are properly entered.

Business Process Definition

This can be classified based on four mandatory process involved in time sheet.
Time Sheet Recording

Every employee is responsible for entering time sheet. Employee is working against some task. The main purpose of this process is to track all employee's work against project/task. So in this process he is asking to enter his details, project details and task details. In task details he

needs to enter hours spent for task, date and some other details for creating sales order (if needed). These records permit to estimate, based on the salary category cost of employees, the cost of these tasks. Employees can submit their time sheet for monthly/weekly/daily basis. Once time sheet has been entered, employees can also have the rights to modify it till it gets approved/submitted. Once an employee has submitted his time sheet, the manager will be alerted to approve/disapprove.
Time Sheet Approval

The manager's responsibility is to approve/disapprove time sheets, once it got submitted by team. He can modify it for further process. Employees work will be re-invoiced in some projects to the customer of the project. So he should analyse and modify the time sheets according to the needs or what are all the tasks which need to be reinvoiced. These changes will be notified to the employee and finance team, once it got approved.
Time Sheet Billing

After approval process, finance team has to verify all details in time sheet. If time sheet has to be re-invoiced (client paying to company for employees work), they have to create sales order against time sheet. They can also edit time sheet. If they find any pending time sheet, they can send a reminder to employee (time sheet entry) or manager (for approval process) before running the re-invoicing process.
Time Sheet Reporting

Reports are used to view all employees time sheet details, project details against time sheet and sales order details against time sheet. Pending time sheets can also be viewed. Projects (projects and time sheets are internally linked together) and profitability report gives the comparison between projects and revenue, also provides the detailed graphical view for top level management.

User Stories
Time Sheet Recording

Story - 1 John is working in enhancements of banking domain softwares for different clients. His manager is asking him to enter his work in time sheet, to track his activities for different clients. Depending upon the task priorities, he is working currently. So at the end of the day he is creating time sheet with proper date, hours spent for each task, project and describing his exact work as description. Then he is submitting the time sheet for his manager's approval.

Story - 2 Jessy is working in service kind of project that belongs to her company. She is creating time sheet with proper details for every day. At the end the week, she is submitting her time sheet for manager's approval.
Time Sheet Approval

Story - 1 Tim who is manager for all employees (for example), receives e-mail for approving the time sheet. He is reviewing the all details that was submitted by John, and now he is ready to approve. Before that the tasks which are doing by John, is for other clients. So his work can be re-invoceable in the way of sales orders. Now Tim is approving his time sheet and the finance team will be alerted by e-mail for further process. Story - 2 Tim is reviewing Jessy's time sheet and approving her time sheet for one week. Since she is working on local projects, her work can't be re-invoiceable.
Time Sheet Billing

Kevin who is in-charge of finance team, reviewing John's time sheet for further process. He is very much satisfied in John's time sheet details like hours spent, work for particular task. So he is creating sales orders against the time sheet.
Time Sheet Reporting

Tim wants to know about all pending time sheets for week/month. He opens the report and identifying the pending time sheet for approval and pending from employee's side processing. He is sending reminder to all employees who are all not submitted their time sheet yet. Tim wants to know about profits for all projects under his control. From the report he gets the details of project, revenue and comparison details. He came to know that his projects are running in good profit. So he sends these details to his top level management in a graphical format.

Functional requirements based on business processes

The following are the basic requirements for time sheet and ordered by its process and priorities.
Time Sheet Recording

Requirement 1: Delivery Organization 1 Num Requirement Add a new field called 'Delivery Organization' to Service Project tab, Multiphase Project tab, Project Phase tab and Project Task tab. This delivery organization will be the one that provides the service. * This field will be mandatory. For existing projects, phases and Importance Status

1.1

Must have

tasks the value will be set equal to the project, phase and task organization respectively. * This field will be a regular organization drop-down list.

Requirement 2: Delivery Organization 2 Num Requirement In the expense (time) sheet lines, project drop-down list values will be filled with: * Projects which delivery organization is equal to the expense sheet line organization. * Plus projects which phases or tasks delivery organization is equal to the expense sheet line organization. In the expense (time) sheet lines, phase drop-down list values will be filled with: * Phases which delivery organization is equal to the expense sheet line organization. * Plus phases which tasks delivery organization is equal to the expense sheet line organization. * Phases have to be filtered by the project selected (current functionality). In the expense (time) sheet lines, task drop-down list values will be filled with: * Tasks which delivery organization is equal to the expense sheet line organization. * Tasks have to be filtered by the phase selected (current functionality). When saving an expense (sheet) line, we must check that we have chosen a project stage which delivery organization is equal to the expense line organization. This means that: * Project's delivery organization is A. * Project Phase 1 delivery organization is A. * Project task 1.1 delivery organization is B. * Employee in B reports an expense (sheet) line for the project. * It is mandatory that he selects phase 1 AND task 1.1 otherwise we will be reporting against a project stage which delivery organization does not match his organization. Importance Status

2.1

Must have

2.2

Must have

2.3

Must have

2.4

Must have

Requirement 3: Employee resources to projects, phases and tasks Num Requirement Create a HHRR tab at a project level, at a phase level and at a task level so employees can be allocated at different levels. * This tab should have employee as mandatory. * Client,Organization and Project/Phase/Task are as read only Importance Status

3.1

Must have

fields. Managers can able to allocate employees in all levels in Project. Create mechanisms in Expense Sheet window in order that employees can only assign hours and expenses to the projects, project phases or project tasks they are working on. Create a report that lists: * All the employees which are allocated to a certain project. * All the projects that a certain employee is working on. * Ability to filter by dates, employees, project, project phase, project task, project status, project category, project type. Create a process window to quickly assign more than one employee to a certain project or project phase or project task. Feature request 0004504: Associate human resources to projects https://issues.openbravo.com/view.php?id=4504

3.2

Must have

3.3

Have Next

3.4

Have Next

Requirement 4: Which products should you be able to choose on a time sheet Num Requirement A new tab called "Expense and Time Products" should be added as a son of "Multiphase Project" and "Service Project" tabs with a drop-down field showing all the products with product type = Service or Expense Type (for expense lines). This tab also should include the client,organization and project fields as read only. In the time sheet line: * If the project selector is left blank, all products with product type = Service should display (all products with product type = Expense Type for expense sheet lines). * If the project selector has a value but there are no products in the "Expense and Time Products" tab, all products with product type = Services should display (all products with product type = Expense Type for expense sheet lines) in order to maintain the current functionality. * If the project selector has a value and there are products in the "Expense and Time Products" tab, all products with product type = Services and recorded in this tab should display (all products with product type = Expense Type for expense sheet lines). Importance Status

4.1

Must have

4.2

Must have

Requirement 5: Which products specified in a time sheet could be reinvoiceable Num 5.1 Requirement A new tab called "Expense and Time Products" should be added as a son of Importance Must have Status

"Multiphase Project" and "Service Project" tabs with a drop-down field showing all the products with product type = Services or Expense Type (for expense lines) and a check box called Reinvoicing. This tab also should include the client,organization and project fields as read only. In the time sheet line:

5.2

If the project selector is left blank, no action is taken in the Reinvocing check-box (one can change it manually). If the project selector has a value but there are no lines in the "Expense and Time Products" tab, no action is taken in the Reinvocing check-box (one can change it manually). If the project selector has a value and the product is not in the "Expense and Time Products" tab, no action is taken in the Reinvocing check-box (one can change it manually). If the project selector has a value and the product is in the "Expense and Time Products" tab, the the Reinvocing check-box is changed to the value in the "Expense and Time Products" tab (BUT one can always change it manually).

Must have

Requirement 6: Restrictions on hours recorded Num Requirement A new tab in Organization window(In Master Data Setup) has to be added, to set max. hours to be entered in Time Sheet. A tab to setup the maximum hours per time slot for each organization. The fields would be: * Maximum Hours: mandatory numeric field for recording the maximum number of hours. * Per: mandatory drop-down list displaying the following time UOM (Day, Week, Month, Year). * Organization affected: non-mandatory drop-down list to select the organization we want this restriction to be applied. If left blank, we assume that it affects all the organizations. * Apply to Children: check-box field that indicates if we want this restriction to apply to all the children organizations selected or only to the selected one. This field only displays if any organization is selected in the drop-down. When recording data in this tab, there should be a check for a valid conversion between hours and the selected time UOM, otherwise display an error message. When inserting or updating a new time sheet line, it has to be checked if the maximum hours per time UOM has been surpassed or not: * If a conversion between hours and the UOM recorded is missing, display an error message. * If the maximum hours are not surpassed, save the record. * If the maximum hours are surpassed, do not save the record and display an error message. Importance Status

6.1

Must have

6.2

Must have

Requirement 7: Which products should you be able to choose on a time sheet defined in project type Num Requirement A new tab called 'Expense & Time Sheet' has to be created in Project Type,this should have the following fields, * Product - a drop-down list box as mandatory. * Client,Organization,Project are as read only fields. The process 'Set Project Type' while creating new multiphase project, the products in Project Type has to be defaulted in 'Multiphase Project'(as Project Phase/Project Task).So there is no need to set products, manually in Project levels.This is extension of Req:4. Importance Status

7.1

Must have

Requirement 8: Rapid data entry 2: Calendar matrix like Num Requirement Time sheet entry in a calendar matrix way will be a manual window with the following structure (first number is the line and second number the position in the line). Defaults 1.1) Organization: mandatory drop-down list with the organization and sub-organizations that the user has access to. 1.2) Project: non-mandatory drop-down list with the projects. Defaults 2.1) Project Phase: non-mandatory drop-down list displaying the phases of the project selected. 2.2) Project Task: non-mandatory drop-down list displaying the tasks of the phase selected. Defaults 3.1) Concept - Non-mandatory drop-down list showing all the products with Product Type = Service and UOM = Hours (no other time UOM will be allowed) Time Sheet Lines 4.1) Time Sheet: mandatory drop-down list displaying all the nonprocessed expense sheets of the current user (if there are not, the user will have to create a new expense sheet header in the regular Expense Sheet window) 4.2) Week: mandatory drop-down list showing first and last day of each week. Values are: Importance Status

8.1

Must have

8.2

Must have

8.3

Must have

8.4

Must have

21/09/2009 - 27/09/2009 28/09/2009 - 04/10/2009 etc, respecting the date format defined in Openbravo.properties

8.5

Other Fields in Lines :

Must have

5.1) Project 5.2) Project Phase 5.3) Project Task 5.4) Concept 5.5) Monday 5.6) Tuesday 5.7) Wednesday 5.8) Thursday 5.9) Friday 5.10) Saturday 5.11) Sunday 5.12) Total Hours per Time Sheet Line Line Field Details: 6.1) Project: drop-down list showing the same data as 1.2. If 1.2 has a value, this value is set in this drop-down list. 6.2) Project Phase: drop-down list showing the same data as 2.1. If 2.1 has a value, this value is set in this drop-down list. 6.3) Project Task: drop-down list showing the same data as 2.2. If 2.2 has a value, this value is set in this drop-down list. 6.4) Concept: mandatory drop-down list showing the same data as 3.1. If 3.1 has a value, this value is set in this drop-down list. 6.5) Number field for inserting the hours devoted on Monday 6.6) Number field for inserting the hours devoted on Tuesday 6.7) Number field for inserting the hours devoted on Wednesday 6.8) Number field for inserting the hours devoted on Thursday 6.9) Number field for inserting the hours devoted on Friday 6.10) Number field for inserting the hours devoted on Saturday 6.11) Number field for inserting the hours devoted on Sunday 6.12) Read-only number field displaying the sum of hours of the time sheet line Other Details : 7.1) Add New Line: button to add a new time sheet line (will add a new row like 6) 7.2) Total Hours per Day 7.3) Read-only number field displaying the sum of hours for Monday 7.4) Read-only number field displaying the sum of hours for Tuesday 7.5) Read-only number field displaying the sum of hours for Wednesday 7.6) Read-only number field displaying the sum of hours for Thursday 7.7) Read-only number field displaying the sum of hours for Friday 7.8) Read-only number field displaying the sum of hours for Saturday 7.9) Read-only number field displaying the sum of hours for Sunday Process :

8.6

Must have

8.7

Must have

8.8

Must have

8.1) OK: button to insert the data of the matrix into the expense sheet lines table. 8.2) Cancel

Requirement 9: Rapid data entry 1: Simplified time sheet window Num Requirement Simplified time sheet window Header tab Read-only tab that will display all the non-processed expense sheet of the logged user. User will not be allowed to create new expense headers but only access its lines. For creating and processing expense headers he will have to access the regular expense sheet window. Lines tab Editable tab (can insert/update/delete records) showing only time sheet lines of the header expense sheet. Distribution of fields would be like: 0.1) Client (read-only) 0.2) Organization (read-only) 1.1) Reinvoicing 1.2) Business Partner 2.2) Project (first focus field) 3.1) Project Phase: only displaying if Project has value 3.2) Project Task: only displaying if Project Phase has value 4.1) Concept: drop-down displaying products with Product Type = Service 4.2) UOM (read-only) 5.1) Time 5.2) Date (today by default) 6.1) Description 7.1) Comments Importance Status

9.1

Have Next

Requirement 10: Rapid data entry 3: Google calendar like Num Requirement A new Time sheet entry, Google calendar widget that should display a calendar in a day, week or month view. When clicking on a time range (in Day or Week view) or in a day (in Month view) a pop-up window will display asking for the following information: 1.1) Time Sheet: mandatory drop-down list displaying all the nonprocessed expense sheets of the current user (if there are not, a info message will be displayed and the user will have to create a new expense sheet header in the regular Expense Sheet window). 2.1) Organization: mandatory drop-down list with the organization and sub-organizations that the user has access to. 2.2) Project: non-mandatory drop-down list with the projects. Importance Status

10.1

Have Next

3.1) Project Phase: non-mandatory drop-down list displaying the phases of the project selected. 3.2) Project Task: non-mandatory drop-down list displaying the tasks of the phase selected. 4.1) Concept: mandatory drop-down list showing all the products with Product Type = Service and UOM = Hours (no other time UOM will be allowed). 5.1) Date: mandatory read-only date field auto-completed. 5.2) Hours: mandatory read-only number field auto-completed (Ending Time - Starting Time) 6.1) Starting Time: mandatory time field (read-only in Day and Week views). 6.2) Ending Time: mandatory time field (read-only in Day and Week views). 7.1) Description: non-mandatory text field. Process Details 8.1) OK: button that saves the record in time sheet lines table. 8.2) Cancel This would be build in a manual window. Two new columns should be added to S_TIMEEXPENSE_LINE table in order to save Starting Time and Ending Time fields values. 10.3 Nice to have: different projects would have different colors. If a time sheet line is processed, the color of the time range will become darker. See mock-up example at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AohY6-U9FFVdFlrRWpSS2FTUkRCU1ZfMWdTaXg4eXc Google calendar API http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/ Have Next

10.2

Have Next

Requirement 11: Copy Lines from Expense Sheet Num Requirement Process, "Copy from expense Sheet Lines" should have a pop-up with the following structure: Filters, * Time Sheet: non-mandatory drop-down list showing all the time sheets of this employee ordered descendant by report date (only expense sheet which have some time sheet line). * Project: non-mandatory drop-down list showing all the distinct projects which appear in any of the time sheet lines of the employee. A grid which values will change automatically based on the filters with the following columns, * Editable check-box for selecting/un-selecting all the records * Time: mandatory editable field only if the corresponding checkbox is selected. Shows the quantity of the product. * Concept/Product: non-editable field. Importance Status

11.1

Have Next

11.2

Have Next

* If filters are blank, display all products present in any of the previous time sheet lines of this employee. If products are repeated, just display the information (quantity and UOM) for the one of the last time (expense) sheet (product type = service). * If Time Sheet filter is selected, display its lines as they are (product type = service). * If Project filter is selected, display all products present in any of the previous time sheet lines of this employee for this project. If products are repeated, just display the one of the last time sheet (product type = service). * UOM: non-editable field that shows the UOM of the product. * Project: non-mandatory selectable drop-down list only if the corresponding check-box is selected. Shows all the projects which delivery organization match expense sheet header organization. Feature request 0004521: Create Lines from Expenses https://issues.openbravo.com/view.php?id=4521

Requirement 12: Rapid data entry 0: Re-order current field Num Requirement A first review for a rapid data entry will consist in a change in the distribution of fields. This is the proposal (first number indicates the line and second number the position in the line): 1.1) Client 1.2) Organization 2.1) Time Sheet 2.2) Line No. 3.1) Active In Project 4.1) 4.2) 5.1) 5.2) Importance Status

12.1

Have Next

12.2

Business Partner Project (first focus field) Project Phase Project Task

Have Next

12.3

In Details 6.1) Time Sheet 6.2) Reinvoicing 7.1) Product 7.2) UOM 8.1) Quantity 8.2) Expense Date 9.1) Invoice Price 9.2) Currency 10.1) Expense Amount 10.2) Converted Amount 11.1) Description 11.2) Comments

Have Next

Requirement 13: Rapid data entry 5: Import from Excel Num Requirement A Data Loader is required for Time sheet process(Import data from Excel Sheet to Openbrvo) to optimize time. * Data can be imported rapidly when integrating with other applications. * It will minimize the productivity by not doing entering data manually. Reference 13.2 On-going Two projects 1) Add entity Time Sheet to the Initial Data Load project: http://forge.openbravo.com/projects/xidl 2) Import Excel specific: http://forge.openbravo.com/projects/excelimport Have Next Importance Status

13.1

Have Next

Requirement 14: Copy from Expense Sheet Num Requirement A button called Copy from Expense Sheet should be added to Expense Sheet header. This button will only display the following artifacts: * Expense Sheet: mandatory drop-down list with all the previous employee time sheets ordered descendantly by report date. * OK: button to launch the copy process. * Cancel: button to cancel the copy process. The copy process would copy exactly the same information of the time (expense) sheet selected into the lines of the new time (expense) sheet. Importance Status

14.1

Have Next

Requirement 15: Rapid data entry 4: Integration with 3rd party time sheet reporting tool Num Requirement Create a generic module in order to easily integrate time sheet process (at least time sheet hours recording) with different 3rd party tools. * A simple UI or a third party tool is required to simplify time sheet process without accessing openbravo ERP, but it should be integrated with Openbravo indirectly. * The third party tool should be more flexible,easy to manipulate. * Integration in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgeX5c26lRY. * Feature request 0005082: Use of external tools for Time Tracking https://issues.openbravo.com/view.php?id=5082 Importance Status

15.1

Have Next

Requirement 16: New Tabs

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Requirement Add two tabs under Lines Tab: 'Project Details - Time Sheet' - displays all time sheet details relevant to corresponding project selected in the time sheet line.So Employee can easily come to know the total hours spent for the particular task. All are read only fields in grid format. Order Details - displays sales order/Purchase Order details which is created against time sheet.All are read only fields.

Importance

Status

16.1

Have Next

Time Sheet Approval

Requirement 1: Expenses approval system Num Requirement An approval system for expenses would be useful in order that the responsible of a project supervises expenses that employees participating in it register in expense sheets. 1.1 1) Third status for process/unprocess: * Implement a third state of the Expense Sheet line, apart from processed and unprocessed: Approved. * The logical path for an expense line would be: Unprocessed > Processed > Approved. * Processed column in S_TimeExpenseLine should be modified. * This could interfere with current usages of this field. 2) Approved check-box: * Create a new column in S_TimeExpenseLine called Approved with possible values Yes/No. This value should not be allowed to change if there are already order or invoice lines associated to this expense sheet lines. * In Expense Sheet line show Approved check-box which will be read-only. * Create an Approval window where the responsible could see all the processed expense lines done in the projects he is responsible for. * In this window only processed time sheet lines will display. Expense sheet lines which have order or invoice lines associated will neither display. * By default, the filter should only display non-approved expense sheet lines. If he filters, he can also see approved ones (in order to disapprove them). * By default, the older expense sheet lines will display first. Filter for this window: * Employee * Product * Project * Project Phase * Project Task * Expense Date Nice to have Importance Status

1.2

Nice to have

* Approved This way, he would easily track and approve/disapprove the expense lines of its projects using a 'Approve/Disapprove expense line' button or changing the Approved check-box value (this check-box would be the only non-readonly field). This is the better approach. In both cases: * A check-box 'Process only approved expenses' should be included in 'Create AP Expenses Invoices' and 'Create Sales Orders from Expenses' processes. * A column named 'Approved' with possible values 'Yes/No' should be added to the Expense Report. Feature request 0004524: Expenses approval system https://issues.openbravo.com/view.php?id=4524

1.3

Nice to have

Requirement 2: Process/Unprocess Expense Sheet lines individually Num Requirement Expense sheet lines inside the same expense sheet header can be associated to order/invoice lines in different order/invoice headers. This is a great feature but the current mechanism to Process/Unprocess expenses has some problems. Process/Unprocess should only reflect a change from a draft/confirmed status for expense sheets. Nowadays, there is a button in Expense Sheet header to Process/Unprocess all the expense sheet lines. If one made a mistake in a processed expense sheet line and want to fix it, one has to unprocess all the lines in the same expense sheet header. This is something that it is not always possible since some lines could have been already associated to an order/invoice line. * Button in Expense Sheet header would be used for Process/Unprocess all the unprocessed/processed expense sheet lines, if they have no related items (i.e., order or invoice lines associated). * In each expense sheet line, a button to process/unprocess each line, if it has no related items, should be created. If any of the expense sheet lines is unprocessed, the header button has to be set Process in order to process again the uprocessed lines. Feature request 0004526: Process/Unprocess Expense Sheet lines individually https://issues.openbravo.com/view.php?id=4526
Time Sheet Billing

Importance

Status

2.1

Have Next

Requirement 1: Delivery Organization 3 Num Requirement Modify the processes that create documents (orders, invoices) from projects in order that the documents are created with the delivery organization value. Importance Status

1.1

Must have

"Create Sales Order from Project Phase" in "Project Phase" tab: Orders created from phases and tasks have to respect phases and tasks delivery organization. If a task is delivered by organization A and another one by organization B, when clicking on "Create Sales Order from Project Phase" button two different orders have to be created. Modify the processes that create documents (orders, invoices) from projects in order that the documents are created with the delivery organization value. "Create Sales Order from Project" in "Service Project" tab: Orders created from service projects have to be created with the delivery organization. Modify the processes that create documents (orders, invoices) from projects in order that the documents are created with the delivery organization value. 1.3 "Create Sales Orders from Expenses": if the project selector is left blank in the expense sheet line, the organization for the order created is the expense sheet line one. Otherwise, the organization for the order created is the delivery organization of the project selected. Modify the processes that create documents (orders, invoices) from projects in order that the documents are created with the delivery organization value. 1.4 "Create AP Expense Invoices": if the project selector is left blank in the expense sheet line, the organization for the invoice created is the expense sheet line one. Otherwise, the organization for the invoice created is the delivery organization of the project selected. Must have Must have

1.2

Must have

Requirement 2: Project filter in billing processes Nu m Requirement While creating reimbursable expenses for employees (purchase invoices) or reinvoicing expenses for customers (sales orders), it would be useful that these processes differentiate projects since one employee or customer can be participating in more than one project. * A project filter should be included in 'Create AP Expenses Invoices' and 'Create Sales Orders from Expenses' processes. * This is useful for getting project profitability. * SERC has developed this capability and it needs to be reviewed and integrated into pi. References * Feature request 0000402: Project filter in 'Create AP Expenses Invoices' and 'Create Sales Orders from Expenses' processes https://issues.openbravo.com/view.php?id=402 * Documentation http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Projects/Project_Filter_ Project_Processes * Code https://dev.openbravo.com/websvn/openbravo/branches/sercImportan ce Stat us

2.1

Must have

project-filter/

Requirement 3: Grouping products when Create Sales Order from Expenses Num Requirement Add a check-box called 'Group products in a single line' in 'Create Sales Orders from Expenses' in order to group products in time sheet. * This is non-mandatory check box, but we can avail this feature if we want. * This is used to group expence sheet lines in product wise, for removing/avoiding product duplicates(In Invoice). Feature request 0010774: Grouping products when Create Sales Order from Expenses https://issues.openbravo.com/view.php?id=10774
Time Sheet Reporting

Importance

Status

3.1

Have Next

Requirement 1: Delivery Organization 4 Num Requirement Modify the existing project reports - A new field called 'Delivery Organization' has been introduced in project settings. This change should reflect in all expense reports.So the organization selected in each of these reports will filter by project delivery organization value, not by project organization value.The existing reports are, 1) Project Progress report. 2) Project Profitability report. 3) Service Project report. 4) Expense report. Importance Status

1.1

Must have

Requirement 2: Num Requirement 1) Pending Time Sheet Report - A new report should be added to view pending time sheets. * To Employees - Report should show pending time sheet entries. * To Managers - Report should show pending time sheets for approval. 2.1 These will be generated and send to the employees/Managers in a weekly/Monthly basis. 2) Alert E-Mails - This E-mail will be triggered automatically when going some process. * Manager should get the alert once employee got submitted his time sheet. * Finance team should be alerted once manager approved the time sheet(If reinvoice is applicable) Have Next Importance Status

User Interface Mockups

Time Sheet Recording

Requirement 1: Delivery Organization 1 'Delivery Organization' is a new field to identify the target organization for expense sheets.This should be implemented in Service Project,Multiphase Project,Project Phase and Project Task. Field can be be implemented as its in the following mock-ups. Service Project:

Multiphase Project:

Project Phase:

Project Task:

Requirement 3: Employee resources to projects, phases and tasks Create a HHRR tab at a project level, at a phase level and at a task level so employees can be allocated at different levels. Multiphase Project:

Project Phase:

Project Task:

Requirement 4: Which products should you be able to choose on a time sheet A new tab has been introduced in projects(Multiphase Projects/Services) window with multi select product field, to select product(Type = Service/Expense) in expense sheet.This field should allow the products which has the 'Project Type' of Service/Expense. Multiphase Project:

Service Project:

Requirement 5: Which products specified in a time sheet could be reinvoiceable 'Re-Invoicing' field needs to be added in Project windows(Multiphase Project,Service Project) to view this value in Expense Sheet lines. Multiphase Project:

Service Project:

Requirement 6: Restrictions on hours recorded A new tab under Organization(In Master Data Setup) has to be added, to set max. hours to be entered in Time Sheet.

Requirement 7: Which products should you be able to choose on a time sheet defined in project type A new tab in Project Type has to be created, this will work out in the process of 'Set Project Type' on creating new multiphase project.The products in Project Type has to be defaulted in 'Multiphase Project'(as Project Phase/Project Task)

Requirement 8: Rapid data entry 2: Calendar matrix like Time sheet entry in a calendar matrix way will be a manual window with the following structure,if values are selected in header level.

Time sheet entry in a calendar matrix way will be a manual window with the following structure,if values are not selected in header level.

Time sheet approval

Muck-ups are given for requirements that have Importance like 'Must Have'.
Time Sheet Billing

Requirement 2: Project filter in billing processes Add Project in filters like in the below mock-up:

Time sheet reporting

Muck-ups are given for requirements that have Importance like 'Must Have'.

Technical Requirements Open Discussion Items Closed Discussion Items

GRO
RRO: thank you very much for your contribution Galder. Please find my answers below.
Time reporting

This project forums on the forge do not work. RRO: Can you participate now? http://forge.openbravo.com/plugins/espforum/browse.php?group_id=381&forumid=886 644 Time sheet reporting should be faster and easier on one hand, and more validations in the other one. I mean: Faster and easier: Creating a header and lines per day is too laborious. Taking into account time sheets are registered every week or every month (usually), having a kind of a spreadsheet would be much easier.

More validations: It does not make sense having enabled all the projects of the system. I mean, I should just be able to report to my assigned projects and generic projects. And not to any project in the company. Also, it could be interesting having default values for some fields. RRO: This will be addressed via a delivery organization and human resources defined for each project. See areas of improvement TSREC001, TSREC002 and TSREC014. A solution maybe a manual form with a month dropdown, where once a month is selected we get the days of the month horizontally. Vertically, we will get our assigned projects and the department's generic projects. This is already done by some partners. RRO: Added to TSREC008 (Calendar matrix). See also TSREC009 (Google calendar).
Expense reporting

Expense report should be more automatic and flexible. I mean: Automatic: Nowadays, expense report is not multycurrency. The user should be able to introduce the amount on a original currency and the applied ratio. The application should calculate the amount in Euros. RRO: It is multi-currency since Openbravo ERP 2.40, see issue 0004546. Enter a bill amount in USD (Invoice Price field). If the conversion rate is correctly defined, Expense Amount will be quantity x invoice price (in USD) and Converted Amount will be in EUR (the entity base currency). And the customer will be billed in his price list currency. Flexible: It can happend you are reinvoicing some expenses but you do not want to pay them to your employee (probably you pay them in advance). RRO: This only applies to expense sheet lines, not to time sheet lines. You can always Create the AP Expense Invoice and void it. Also it is a pain reinvoicing this expenses to a final customer. Right now, the relation most be 1 yo 1 between expenses and invoicelines. Sometimes I may have many expenses but I only want to print one line on the invoice. For example, think I have 10 people on the project and they all have taxi expenses. If I want to reinvoice them to my customer, I need to include 10 invoice lines. This is a mess. Additionaly, the reinvoicing process groups by description and is also a pain. What do you think about? RRO: I think that it is OK that taxi expenses are in different order lines, each with its description on what was the service used for and each with its bill price (if you mix them in a single line you do not distinguish how much you paid for each service). But I also agree with you that, in some cases, you may want to mix all this in a single order line. There should be a check-box in the Create Sales Orders from Expenses process that allows you to group the same products in single lines. Added to TSBIL003.

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