Trying to generate expense lines from timecards without PPM

[ronprice]

I have a requirement to be able to create and process expense rows based on time cards in order to track costs for ITSM tasks.  I've installed the Time Card plugin and Fiscal Periods but the process fails to generate expense rows.  I believe that this should be possible, but it appears to be getting stopped because it is looking for a script include from PPM named PPMFiscalPeriod.  This is happening within the TaskRateProcessor script include.  I don't think that Time Cards and Expense Lines should require having PPM installed, but right now that appears to be the case.  Has anyone used this successfully in an environment without PPM and if so, how?

[Mark Manders]

The time card plugin is for registering time and the expense lines (outside of PPM) are mainly used to track asset cost. To combine those (use timecards to calculate cost), you will need PPM or create your custom solution. 

As mentioned on the TimeCard docs: Note: The Time Card Management plugin is required to use time cards. Some of the procedures require the project management feature, which activates time cards automatically. For more information, see Project Management (com.snc.financial_planning_pmo).