CGPL_Project shows different dates from UI dates

[Former Member]

We see that the Plan finish date for the project (and this behavior repeats for other project elements too) is one date later than Calculated Finish date in the project UI. For e.g., on the UI, the project "Calculated finish date" shows Nov-23-2013. The Plan Finish date for this project in CGPL_Project shows Nov-24-2013.

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[hanspeterbaier · Accepted solution]

Hi Deepak!

The difference between cPro UI-layer and CGPL-layer results from different time zones. When creating and saving project elemtens SAP saves the dates in UTC-time in table CGPL_PROJECT. This enables SAP to deal with different time zones and the consistent saving, reading and processing.

The method, which does the conversion to the correct time-zone, is CONVERT_CGPL_DATES_TO_EXT. The method belongs to class CL_DPR_CONVERSION.

If you are using a BI-installation and extract elements to custom BI-reports the SAP standard-extractor  0DPR_PROJECT_DATE also calls the method CONVERT_CGPL_DATES_TO_EXT, so that BI-reports can reflect the UI-layer dates to the user.

I hope this answer helps you to understand the different dates on different layers.

Cheers,

Peter