John,

Thank you for your quick response.

In my situtaion - the resource is not shared between two resource managers. The resource is shared by two different profit centers. The solution you gave will probably work from a time reporting perspective. I am trying to solve this issue from a planning perspective.

By the way - you mentioned a 'new" timesheet solution. Could you detail the functionality of the new solution?

Sarma

Sarma,

Here is an overview of the new updates coming out soon.  You should receive more information soon.  Yesterday, they announced the release date of October 30th.

My Current Timesheet

·         Eliminated the old Generate Timesheet step

·         Project Work & Non-Project Work entries

·         Task Level & Timesheet Level Comments

·         ETC & ETC change indicators at the task level

·         Can set project type level setting to automatically update the Task Planned Work with the ETC when a timesheet is approved

·         Timesheet % Work Complete -> Task % Complete (Can still manually update task % Complete through Task Updates)

·         More Fields (i.e. Billing Rate, Task Status, Planned Work, Actual Work, etc.)

·         New UI… AJAX Telerik Controls (You will love this!)

·         Project Level Time Tracking (i.e. track time against the project rather than against tasks)

·         Enter time by day or week for time periods within a timesheet

·         Timesheet history log which tracks approvals and other actions

My Timesheets view

·         QuickFilter capabilities (time period, timesheet status) 

Timesheets by Project view (for PM’s)

·         QuickFilter capabilities (time period, timesheet status, projects I manage)

Timesheets by Resource view (for RM’s & Supervisors)

·         QuickFilter capabilities (time period, timesheet status, resources I manage) 

Timesheets for Approval view (for Approvers)

Time Reporting

·         Export to Excel from Timesheets tab for billing/cost reports and actual resource utilization

·         Web Services to expose work entry data 

Create Non-Project Work Items through Team Manager

·         users can be given permission to charge time against non-project work entries

Timesheet Approval and Notifications

·         support for multi-level approvals

·         action based timesheet notifications

Sarma,

Have you considered a "Cost Center" custom field?  This would not affect any of the standard Task/resource reports or tools, but you could then use a custom report to derive the values you need.

Depending on whether you put the custom field on the task or the user and the kind of calculations required, you might need a crystal report to collect all of the data you need, but this seems like a good path to start exploring.

Cheers,
Erik