Time Report Charging Levels

If you use PeopleSoft Expenses, you can enter time reports for all detail activities, or specify the level of activities on the work breakdown structure (WBS) for which you want to capture time against a project. The level at which you capture costs for a project can be different from the level at which you report time in PeopleSoft Expenses.

This table lists the functionality for different combinations of project charging-level options and time-report charging-level options:

Project Charging Level Option	Time-Report Charging Level Option	Functionality
All Detail Activities	All Detail Activities	Select a project charging level of All Detail Activities to enter transactions on all detail activities (nonsummary), regardless of the WBS level of the activity. When you select this project charging level, the system selects a time-report charging level of All Detail Activities, and time report transactions are recorded in PeopleSoft Expenses and sent to PeopleSoft Project Costing at the detail activity level.
Activity Costing Level	All Detail Activities	If you capture activity costs at the project charging level and enter time reports for all detail activities: PeopleSoft Expenses records time report transactions for any detail activity. During the PeopleSoft Expenses integration, the system summarizes detail transactions to the project charging-level parent activity, and sends the data to the Project Transaction table (PROJ_RESOURCE). The Project Transaction table retains the original detail activity ID from the time report as a nonkey attribute. Note: The system calculates the amount of actual work completed from detail activities that reside in the Project Transactions table and displays the information on the Resources by Activity page. Even if you capture costs at the project charging level, the Project Transactions table retains the time report activity detail that you enter at the detail level.
Activity Costing Level	Activity Costing Level Note: You select this time report charging option by deselecting the All Detail Activities check box in the Charging Level for Time Report group box.	Select a project charging level of Activity Costing Level to restrict project charging to one specified level of the WBS—level 1, 2, or 3. Select a time report charging level of Activity Costing Level to charge time only to summary and detail activities that reside in the specified project charging level. Note: If you charge time reports only at the project charging level, the Project Transactions table will not contain the time report activity detail. Therefore, the actual work calculation for detail activities that are at a lower WBS level than the project charging level are not available on the Resources by Activity page.

Project Charging Level Option

Time-Report Charging Level Option

Functionality

All Detail Activities

Select a project charging level of All Detail Activities to enter transactions on all detail activities (nonsummary), regardless of the WBS level of the activity.

When you select this project charging level, the system selects a time-report charging level of All Detail Activities, and time report transactions are recorded in PeopleSoft Expenses and sent to PeopleSoft Project Costing at the detail activity level.

Activity Costing Level

All Detail Activities

If you capture activity costs at the project charging level and enter time reports for all detail activities:

PeopleSoft Expenses records time report transactions for any detail activity.
During the PeopleSoft Expenses integration, the system summarizes detail transactions to the project charging-level parent activity, and sends the data to the Project Transaction table (PROJ_RESOURCE).
The Project Transaction table retains the original detail activity ID from the time report as a nonkey attribute.

Note: The system calculates the amount of actual work completed from detail activities that reside in the Project Transactions table and displays the information on the Resources by Activity page. Even if you capture costs at the project charging level, the Project Transactions table retains the time report activity detail that you enter at the detail level.

Activity Costing Level

Note: You select this time report charging option by deselecting the All Detail Activities check box in the Charging Level for Time Report group box.

Select a project charging level of Activity Costing Level to restrict project charging to one specified level of the WBS—level 1, 2, or 3.

Select a time report charging level of Activity Costing Level to charge time only to summary and detail activities that reside in the specified project charging level.

Note: If you charge time reports only at the project charging level, the Project Transactions table will not contain the time report activity detail. Therefore, the actual work calculation for detail activities that are at a lower WBS level than the project charging level are not available on the Resources by Activity page.