Adding and approving time entries via Power Automate

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Posted on by Dianey

We're setting up Project Operations Lite and would like to bring over time entries for specific projects from our existing time entry system. I have access to the data and can successfully create a time entry record. I then update it to approved (as a user who is a project approver team member). It all works successfully, however, when I look at the actuals, price is $0 and so there is no cost. If I were to create a time entry manually and approve it manually, the actuals will show a price and a calculated cost.

When I look at my automated records and my manual records in the Time Entries table, they look basically the same. Is there some other table that I need to be creating records for in order to get cost to calculate? Or is this maybe just a timing issue? I know a lot of work goes on behind the scenes when a user hits submit. Am I maybe just marking it as approved too quickly?

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Never mind...my automated and manual records weren't exactly the same. In my automation, I was just using a placeholder role/bookable resource category, but that's not the role that I was actually assigned in the project. Once I updated my Power Automate flow to use the actual role assigned to the team member, it calculated cost correctly.

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