I have been giving this some thought. It occurs to me this is more of a process issue than a tool issue for you. IN my opinion your field techs should not be editing their hours. That "should be" a back-office function. The hours can and should be submitted as is from the field. If there are any issues with pay or accuracy or hours worked on the wrong workorder or whatever that is clarified and "audited" in the back office.
Please do this.... When you create the labor transactions on the front end with Anywhere, can you let me know if they labor transactions are still submitted to Maximo as approved or do they appear as unapproved after sent to Maximo? If they are unapproved then you are home free and have nothing to do technically with the product. If they are already approved and appear as such on core Maximo, then you have an issue. That will require code modification to correct, and I would submit a ticket to product development. If you want to accept internal labor transactions as unapproved, then in my opinion Anywhere should not submit approved only. This should be an MBO validation process on the backend only with respect the Labor Option you set.
Now one other thing, if your internal process is such that you really do want your techs to be able to edit their work transactions to submit a "timesheet" at the ned of a pay period (weekly, bi-weekly, or whatever,) then you can modify with a great deal of effort the application to create a "time sheeting" application. I led a team for this kind of functionality many years ago (2015) for a client in Australia. It was expensive to develop and to my knowledge the only one performed. There could be others but I have not heard of them. It is possible, but it is expensive.
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Bradley K. Downing , MBA
IBM Certified Adv. Deployment Prof. Maximo v7.6.1
IBM
Bakersfield CA
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Original Message:
Sent: Mon June 14, 2021 06:22 PM
From: User1971
Subject: Labor actuals are editable in Maximo desktop, but not in Anywhere
Anywhere Work Technician 7.6.4 (Android):
My organization has changed the default labor actuals setting so that inside labor transactions don't get automatically approved:
Changing Labor hours in the Actuals > Labor tab in Work Order Tracking
Reason: We need to be able to edit/correct actuals after they're saved.
Anywhere:
Ideally, my users would be able edit their labor actuals in Anywhere too.
However, it looks like labor actuals can't be edited in Anywhere, despite the fact that the labor actuals are editable in Maximo desktop .
Is there a way to make the unapproved labor actuals editable in Anywhere too?
Examples:
1. Edit the Regular Hours field.
2. Or delete the entire record.
Thanks.
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