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Using a Different Expense Period Type

When creating an expense report, you select the period the expense report covers. The Pick Period dialog box shows only periods of the type Week. If you have not defined any periods with this type, then the periods do not appear in the Pick Period dialog box.

Do not use the Period Type Weekly if this does not suit your implementation.

The Period Type of Week is specified in three places in the repository:

  1. Search-Spec of applet 'Period Pick Applet-Open': [Closed Flag] = 'N' and [Period Type] = LookupValue("PERIOD_TYPE", "Week")
  2. Field [Period Type Default] of 'Time Sheet' BusComp: LookupValue("PERIOD_TYPE", "Week")
  3. Field [Period Type Default] of 'Expense Report' BusComp: LookupValue("PERIOD_TYPE", "Week")

If you need a Period Type other than Week, then the previous three items must be modified in Siebel Tools to indicate the new Period Type. You can allow users to pick from multiple types of periods if the search specification is similar to `Type-1 OR Type-2'. For more information on using Siebel Tools, see Siebel Tools Reference.

You can use only one Period Type with auto-generation of expense reporting. These expense reports use the second and third items in the preceding list to find a period when creating a new expense report or time sheet for a single period type.


 Siebel Employee Relationship Management Administration Guide 
 Published: 18 April 2003