Setting up ALE to integrate cProjects and HR CATS

[Former Member]

Hi Gurus,

We're wondering if it is mandatory to set up ALE to integrate cProjects and HR CATS. We found SAP note 954860 and we were trying to understand it, on a functional point of view, before to send it to our Basis team.

We would like to get some advice on this.

Could you please give us any hint?

Thanks in advance for your response,

Best regards,

TP

[schneidertho]

Hi TP,

it is not mandatory. Basically you have two options for resources:

- you can create resources (business partners) manually in cProjects. then you do not need the ALE integration to HR

- or you can replicate the employee master data to cProjects. then you don't need the manual maintenance, but you have to setup the HR integration

for CATS:

- if you like to do time recording through CATS, you need the corresponding integration

- alternatively you have some easy-to-use task dashboard for the resources involved in the projects inside the cProjects appliation. Users can access the tasks they are responsible for through there. but you do not have full CATS functionality then

best regards

Thorsten