Payroll Completions and Parallels

Owned by Knowledge Assistant
Jul 12, 2022
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Description of Issue

Some supervisors are not going out to ESS and approving Time Off Requests. They realized that the approvals have not been completed so created a manual entry of the time off pay within the payroll. With the duplicate time, will affect their accumulators?



Context

  • Parallel Processing

  • Version 2018



Cause

During the parallel test phase of Implementation, sites will export pay periods to test calculations in payroll using Time & Attendance data. The system is not configured to resolve accruals used during these periods so that accrual balances can be updated from Enterprise ERP. The transactions will showing in a pending, approved & declined status until manually updated to processed.



Resolution

  1. Navigate to System Admin > UI Environment Flags > Admin > Time History Processing.

  2. Select Testing as the Processing Status for those entered just for parallel purposes.

  3. Select the appropriate Pay Period name associated with employee's profiles.

  4. Select Use Timestamps by including a checkmark.

  5. Choose the desired Timestamp (Pay Period) range from Timestamp List field.

  6. Under Organizational Levels, choose appropriate criteria to determine who should be updated be the selections made above (Only one selection can be made)

  7. Click Set time in history to selected status.



Additional Information

To verify steps completed successfully follow steps below

  1. Navigate to Employee Actions > Time Card Inquiry > History and choose employee name from Employee dropdown.

  2. Under Pay Period, select the pay period date range updated in previous steps.

  3. Next to a transactions, hover over the tooltip to see status of transactions

Spot check as many employees/transactions as you feel necessary