Defining User Preferences

This chapter provides an overview of user preferences available in Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise applications and discusses how to:

Click to jump to parent topicUnderstanding User Preferences

Before you set up user preferences for PeopleSoft Enterprise applications, you must set up user IDs for those who will define default codes and values. After you have completed table setup and defined all default values, you use the User Preferences pages to define profiles for your PeopleSoft system users.

After setting up user preferences, generate the User Preferences report (FIN0006) to display information that includes a listing of the preferences that you have defined for each user.

Click to jump to parent topicDefining Cross-Application User Preferences

Use the User Preferences component (OPR_DEFAULT) to define cross-application user preferences. Use the OPR_DEFAULT_FIN component interface to load data into the tables for this component.

This section discusses how to:

See Also

Setting Up On-Demand Processing

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicPages Used to Define Cross-Application User Preferences

Page Name

Object Name

Navigation

Usage

Overall Preferences

OPR_DEF_TABLE_FS1

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Overall Preference

Define overall default user preferences for specific PeopleSoft-system users.

OLE Information (object linking and embedding information)

OPR_DEF_TABLE_OLE1

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, OLE Information

Identify the client operating system and the user's web browser.

User Preferences - Process Group

OPR_DEF_TBL_RTM

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Process Group

Specify by source transaction the process groups that a user can use for on-demand processing.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Overall User Preferences

Access the Overall Preferences page.

Business Unit and SetID

Select values that become the user's default values in business unit and setID search fields.

As of Date

Displays the default as of date for the Combo Edit process.

Localization Country

Displays the default localization country for this user ID.

Alternate Character Enabled

Select to activate alternate description buttons or links, which appear to the right of fields on many of the application pages. Click a button or link to enter or display alternate characters on the auxiliary page that appears.

Display Debit/Credit Amounts in Subsystems

Select to display debit and credit amounts of the default business unit on journal entry and inquiry pages. A subsystem is any PeopleSoft application, such as Payables or Receivables, that contributes entries to PeopleSoft General Ledger.

See Also

Defining Alternate Characters for Language Codes

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining OLE Information

Access the OLE Information page.

OLE functionality enables you to store internet addresses with vendor identification information. When using a page that offers web access (such as the Location page in the Vendor Information component (VNDR_ID)), users can click a button or link that activates a web browser to access the vendor's website.

Client Operating System

Select the user's operating system.

WWW Browser (World Wide Web browser)

Select the user's web browser.

Note. Some browsers don't support an OLE interface that enables this function.

See Also

Entering Vendor Contact Information

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Process Group Preferences

Access the User Preferences - Process Group page.

See Defining Process Group Preferences.

Click to jump to parent topicDefining Application-Specific User Preferences

Use the User Preferences component (OPR_DEFAULT) to define PeopleSoft Enterprise application-specific user preferences. Use the OPR_DEFAULT_FIN component interface to load data into the tables for this component.

This section discusses how to:

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicPages Used to Define Application-Specific User Preferences

Page Name

Object Name

Navigation

Usage

Asset Management

OPR_DEF_TABLE_AM1

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Asset Management

Establish date default values, transaction loader processing options, table transaction editing options, and property pagelet defaults for a user.

IT Asset Management

OPR_DEF_TABLE_IT1

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, IT Asset Management

Define user preferences specific to IT Asset Management.

Billing

OPR_DEF_TABLE_BI1

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Billing

Define default user preferences specific to Billing.

Contracts

OPR_DEF_TABLE_CA1

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Contracts

Define default user preferences specific to Contracts.

General Ledger

OPR_DEF_TABLE_GL1

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, General Ledger

Set up user defaults for General Ledger.

Inventory

OPR_DEF_TABLE_IN1

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Inventory

Define preferences for Inventory users.

Lease Administration

RE_OPR_DFLTS

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Lease Administration

Define default lease administration preferences for Real Estate Management users.

Maintenance Management

OPR_DEF_TABLE_WM1

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Maintenance Management

Define default maintenance management preferences.

Manufacturing

OPR_DEF_TABLE_MG1

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Manufacturing

Maintain the default server by user ID. Configure a default server to run the Update Pick Plan and Automatic Material Release process (SFCONREL).

Orders - Quotations

OPR_DEF_TABLE_OM2

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences

Set up the default business unit for quotation processing pages for a user. You can also specify a beginning sequence code for your quotations.

Orders - RMA (orders - returned material authorizations)

OPR_DEF_TABLE_OM3

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences

Set up defaults for users who are entering returned material authorizations (RMAs).

Orders - Sales

OPR_DEF_TABLE_OM1

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Orders - Sales

Set up business-unit, order-source, and order-group defaults for a user who enters sales order information. You can also specify a beginning sequence code for your sales orders.

PayCycle

OPR_DEF_TBL_PYCYCL

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Paycycle

Define default output destinations for the Pay Cycle Manager and the Express Payment Manager components (PYCYCL_MGR and EXP_PYCYCL_MGR, respectively). These default values are not required to perform any pay cycle process.

Planning

OPR_DEF_TABLE_PL1

Setting Up Financials/Supply Chain, Install, Installation Options, Planning

Select a default planning instance. A planning instance is a set of data (business units, items, supplies, and demands) constituting the inputs and outputs of a supply plan.

Procurement

OPR_DEF_TABLE_PM1

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Procurement

Define options and authorizations for procurement users.

Procurement - Contract Process

OPR_DEF_CNTRCT_SEC

Click the Contract Process link on the Procurement page.

Specify the default contract status and authorized actions for a user.

Procurement - Rebate Authorizations

OPR_DEF_VRBT_SEC

Click the Rebate Authorizations link on the Procurement page.

Define rebate manager maintenance authorization and access rights for vendor rebate agreements.

Procurement - Request for Quote Process

OPR_DEF_RFQ_SEC

Click the Request for Quote Process link on the Procurement page.

Specify the default request for quote (RFQ) status and authorized actions for a user, including the ability to select the vendors to which an RFQ is dispatched.

Procurement - Payables Online Vouchering

OPR_DEF_TABLE_AP1

Click the Payables Online Vouchering link on the Procurement page.

Specify user voucher authorities, online voucher processing, and quick invoice configuration options for a user.

Procurement - Voucher Styles

VCHR_AUTHORITY_SEC

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Procurement

Click the Payables Online Vouchering link on the Procurement page

Click the Security for Voucher Styles link on Payables Online Vouchering page.

Define user authority (security) for each of the voucher styles. Selections determine whether the user has the authority to add or modify different types of vouchers.

You must be in the Update/Display mode to select the Allow Claimback Voucher option.

Procurement - Receiver Setup

OPR_DEF_RECV_SEC

Click the Receiver Setup link on the Procurement page.

Define receiver authorizations.

Procurement - Requisition Authorizations

OPR_REQ_AUTH

Click the Requisition Authorizations link on the Procurement page.

Authorize users to initiate and update requisitions for applicable requesters. Define a user's requisition processing authority in relation to applicable requesters.

Procurement - Purchase Order Authorizations

OPR_PO_AUTH

Click the Purchase Order Authorizations link on the Procurement page.

Authorize users to create and update purchase orders for applicable buyers. Define a user's purchase-order processing authority in relation to applicable buyers.

Procurement - Vendor Processing Authority

OPR_DEF_TABLE_VND1

Click the Vendor Processing Authority link on the Procurement page.

Authorize users to perform vendor maintenance functions (enter, approve, deactivate).

Procurement - Document Tolerance Exceptions Override

OPR_DEF_DOC_TOL

Click the Doc Tolerances link on the Procurement page.

Provide authority to users to override document tolerances.

Project Costing

OPR_DEF_TABLE_PC1

  • Project Costing, Maintain Preferences

  • Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Project Costing

Assign default parameters for transaction processing and set up data entry defaults.

Promotions Management

OPR_DEF_TABLE_TD1

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Promotions Management

Define default user preferences for promotions management.

Receivables Data Entry 1

OPR_DEF_TABLE_AR1

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Receivables Data Entry 1

Define the default group unit, deposit unit, and address that is associated with a user.

Receivables Data Entry 2

OPR_DEF_TABLE_AR2

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Receivables Data Entry 2

Specify write-off tolerances and discount tolerances.

Strategic Sourcing

OPR_DEF_TBL_SS

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences, Strategic Sourcing

Create strategic sourcing user preferences and defaults.

Staffing - General Preferences

OPR_DEF_TABLE_FO1

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences

Click the Staffing - General Preferences link.

Define general user preferences for Staffing Front Office and Pay/Bill Management.

Staffing - Job Data

OPR_DEF_TABLE_FO2

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences

Click the Staffing - Job Data link.

Define Staffing Front Office and Pay/Bill Management values to be supplied by default to the Job Data section of the Applicant setup pages.

Supplier Contract Management

OPR_DEF_TABLE_CS

Set Up Financials/Supply Chain, Common Definitions, User Preferences, Define User Preferences

Click the Supplier Contract Management link.

Define user authorizations for managing contract documents through their life cycles and to grant the types of controls that the user who is defined in the User ID field can perform on documents.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Asset Management User Preferences

Access the Asset Management - User Preferences page.

Field Drilldown Group Id:

Select a drill-down group to be used by online reporting when filtering data.

Date Default Values

Transaction Date

Supply a default date for asset transactions or leave this field blank to use the system date.

Note. The transaction date must always be prior to or equal to the accounting date.

Accounting Date

Supply a default date on which you want this transaction distributed to the general ledger. The accounting date is validated against the open periods that you establish for Asset Management in the FIN_OPEN_PERIOD table to determine to which period the system posts. The difference between the transaction date and the accounting date determines whether any prior period depreciation must be calculated. For example, suppose that a computer was acquired and placed in service on March 15, 2006 but was not entered in Asset Management until August 1, 2006. All general ledger periods prior to August are closed. In this case, Asset Management automatically calculates depreciation starting in March and posts it to the general ledger in August.

Auto-Run Transaction Loader

Asset Management Integration

Select to add transactions from Maintenance Management to the transaction loader process (AMIF1000).

Impairment/Revaluation Process

Select to always run impairment and revaluation processing when running the transaction loader process.

See Adjusting, Transferring, and Evaluating Assets.

Edit Options for Interface Tables

Edit Financial Information

Select the editing options for this user for the asset management financial transaction tables. The available options are:

All: Select this option if this user is allowed to make edits to all financial transaction table entries.

Date: Select this option if this user is allowed to make edits to transaction and accounting dates on the financial transaction table.

None: Select this option if this user is not allowed to make any edits to any financial transaction table entries.

Edit Phy A Information

Select the editing options for this user for the asset management physical A tables. The available options are:

All: Select this option if this user is allowed to make edits to all physical A table entries.

None: Select this option if this user is not allowed to make any edits to any physical A table entries.

Edit Phy B Information

Select the editing options for this user for the asset management physical B tables. The available options are:

All: Select this option if this user is allowed to make edits to all physical B table entries.

None: Select this option if this user is not allowed to make any edits to any physical B table entries.

Note. When the interface status is in the status of Errored, On Hold, or Pending, the options to edit the transaction tables come into effect. Depending on the load type, some fields may not be editable even when the All option has been selected. For example, you cannot enter proceeds or removal costs in an FAD (Financial Addition) transaction because those fields are related to retirements.

Property Pagelets

Business Unit

Select the business unit. This user will then have access to property assets from within the selected business unit.

Space Unit of Measure

Select the default unit of measure to access when a user is working with space allocations. The available options are:

Feet

Meters

Property Class

Select the property class to be commonly used by default for this user ID when he or she is working with property assets. The available options are:

Site

Building

Floor

Area

Space

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining IT Asset Management User Preferences

Access the IT Asset Management page

Currency Code

Enter a currency code to be used by financial values, statistics, and reports for a given user within IT Asset Management. The currency code at the User ID level overrides the currency code that is supplied at the Installation Options level for this user.

Rate Type

Enter a rate type to be used by financial values, statistics, and reports for a given user within IT Asset Management. The rate type at the User ID level overrides the rate type that is supplied at the Installation Options level for this user.

IT Financial Statistics

Tree Name

Select a default tree to be used by the user within the application pages and for reporting within IT Asset Management.

Level Name

Select a default tree level within the tree to be used in reporting within IT Asset Management by user.

View Amount in:

Select to present financial statistics within the application as rounded amounts based on the designation in this field according to the user's preference. If this field is blank, the financial statistics will be presented as whole numbers.

Financial Impact

Show Net Book Value

Select to display the net book value (NBV) of assets within the application pages and portal pagelets in IT Asset Management for a given user. The NBV is used for financial impact analysis in compliance with regulatory requirements.

Show Cost

Select this option to display the cost basis of assets within the application pages and portal pagelets in IT Asset Management for a given user. The cost basis is used for financial impact analysis in compliance with regulatory requirements.

Show Fair Market Value

Select to display the fair market value of assets within the application pages and portal pagelets in IT Asset Management for a given user. The FMV is used for financial impact analysis in compliance with regulatory requirements.

View Amount in:

Select to present financial impact amounts within the Assets not Reporting and Manage Exceptions pagelets as rounded amounts based on the designation in this field according to user preference. If this field is blank, the financial impact will be presented as whole numbers.

Reconciliation Option

Run Trans Loader Automatically

Select to invoke the Transaction Loader process automatically by user. When Manage Exceptions processes asset additions, Transaction Loader must be run to complete the additions. Selecting this option automatically runs the Transaction Loader and processes the additions.

Software

Allow Authorization

Select to enable a user to authorize employees for software titles from the Discover Software Inventory Detail page.

Device Monitor

Select the software device group to be used as the default value in the Software Device Monitor portal pagelet. This effectively assigns to users the device group (within the enterprise software device group hierarchy) that they will see on the Software Device Monitor pagelet.

Assets Not Reporting

Inventory Age

Select the default inventory age for both the Assets Not Reporting Inquiry and the Assets Not Reporting portal pagelet.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Billing User Preferences

Access the Billing page.

Note. Before you define user preferences, you must configure your default process scheduler servers.

Server Name

Select the server with the default output destination that you want the system to use when you run Billing processes from a button.

Job Run Opt

Select a job run option, which determines whether multiprocess jobs run with or without the Currency Conversion, Load AR Pending, Pre-load, Load GL Interface, Commitment Control, and Federal Invoice Formats 1080 and 1081 processes, when you initiate multiprocess jobs from a button. Options are:

Print/Load: Select to run all of the processes in a multiprocess job, including Currency Conversion, Load AR, Pre-Load, Load GL, Commitment Control, and Federal Invoice Formats 1080 and 1081.

No Load: Select to run the processes in the job except for the Currency Conversion, Load AR, Pre-load, Load GL, Commitment Control, and Standard Form 1080 and 1081 processes.

Note. The system initiates the Commitment Control process only if commitment control is enabled on the Installation Options - Installed Products page.

The system does not print Federal Invoice Formats 1080 and 1081 for Direct Invoice jobs.

Print Listing

Enables the printing of reports that are produced by the PeopleSoft Billing Load AR, Load GL, and Generate AP Voucher (generate accounts payable voucher) processes whenever you initiate these processes from a button.

The Load AR, Load GL, and Generate AP processes write summary information to the message log, regardless of whether the process generates a printed report. On the Message Log page, you can view the summary information that is written to the message log, such as what input parameters were used in a particular process run and how many bills it processed.

You can also review process summary information for the Load AR and Load GL processes on the Load AR Pending Items page, the Accounting Entries By Journal - Accounting Entry page, and Accounting Entries By Invoice - Accounting Entries page.

Web, File, or Printer

Displays the invoice destination.

Output Destination

Specify the path to the file or printer.

Note. The system does not use the billing job defaults when you initiate processes from a process menu. Use the Schedule Process Request page to specify output type and destination.

You can initiate Billing processes from a button in the Bill Entry, Bill Inquire, and Bill Summary components as well as from the Direct Invoice Test page.

Note. If you are running a multiprocess job from a button, you can specify only one output destination for all processes within the job. You cannot vary the output destination for individual processes within a job.

In Inventory, you can initiate Billing processes by clicking a link on the Shipping/Issues Order Summary page. When you initiate the process, you can select process options such as the server name and output destination.

Single Action and Direct Invoicing Alternates

Single Action Invoice and Direct Invoice multiprocess jobs comprise groups of processes that you submit to the server as a unit. Billing delivers an alternate set of corresponding Single Action and Direct Invoicing multiprocess jobs that run only up to invoice printing, enabling you to run the remaining processes at another time.

The alternate set of corresponding Single Action and Direct Invoicing multiprocess jobs do not include the following processes:

Single Action and Direct Invoice Jobs and Corresponding Alternates

The following list multiprocess jobs that included certain processes and the corresponding alternate jobs that do no included the processes.

Multiprocess Jobs That Include BICURCNV, BILDAR01, BIPRELD,BILDGL01, FSPKBDP3, and BISF108X

Initiated From

Corresponding Alternate Jobs That Do Not Include BICURCNV, BILDAR01, BIPRELD, BILDGL01, FSPKBDP3, and BISF108X

DIRCTIVC

Shipping/Issues page

DIRCTIV2

BIDIRIVC

Direct Invoice Test page

BIDIRIV2

BIINIU

Shipping/Issues page

BIINIU2

BIJOB03, BIJOB03K

Bill Entry, Bill Inquiry, and Bill Summary pages

BIJOB08

Note. BIJOB03K includes commitment control only if you enabled commitment control at the installation level.

Currency Code

Displays the default currency code that is used when you enter data for functions that are unrelated to the business unit. These functions include accumulations, billing charge codes, and discount and surcharge IDs.

See Also

Running Single-Action Jobs for Regular and Consolidated Invoices

Enterprise PeopleTools PeopleBook: PeopleSoft Process Scheduler

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Contracts User Preferences

Access the Contracts page.

Note. If you have enabled contract status security, you must define the list of contract statuses to which this user is authorized to set a contract.

Business Unit

To minimize data entry on contract processing pages, select the default Contracts business unit that this user will use most frequently.

Beginning Sequence

Select the three-character value that the system will use as a prefix for system-generated contract numbers for this user. For example, contracts for the western region might begin with WES.

Region Code

Select the default region code for setting up new contracts for this user. Contracts uses region codes to enable you to categorize your contracts by region, for example, East, West, North, and South. Region codes in Contracts are informational only.

Contract Status Authorizations Grid

Contract Status

If you selected to enforce contract status security on the Contracts Definition - BU Definition page, define the list of contract statuses to which this user can change the contract status. If contract status security is enabled, this user is able to change the contract status only to contract status values that you've specified here.

Select the contract statuses to which this user can change a contract.

Processing Status

When you select a contract status, the system displays the processing status to which the contract status is mapped.

Description

Displays the contract status description.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining General Ledger User Preferences

Access the General Ledger page.

Select the ledger, ledger group, and source to be used as defaults for this user.

Journal Entry Options

Change Date on Correction Journals

Select to change the journal date in the corrections journal (which is on the Journal Suspense Correction page).

Use Next Journal ID

Select to limit this user ID to the NEXT journal ID that is automatically entered by the system during online journal entry. If this option is selected, the Journal ID field becomes unavailable to this user ID, and the user cannot manually enter a journal ID.

Change Journals from Journal Generator

Select to allow a specific user to update the ChartField and amounts on the Journal Entry page for a journal that was created by the Journal Generator process.

Warning! If you select Change Journal from Journal Generator, and then you change the ChartField values and reedit the journal, you can create inconsistencies between the subsystem data and the general ledger data. Also, for journals that are generated for a subsystem that supports commitment control, the journal will not be budget checked again even though the ChartField values or the amounts are changed.

Enter Adjustment Type Journal

Select to allow a specific user to enter a Book Code adjustment type journal.

Note. This option is used for the Book Code feature, not the Adjusting Entry feature.

Save Journal Incomplete Status

When you select this option for a specific user and the user adds a new journal, the selected option appears on the Journal Header page of various journal entry options. This option enables the user to save journal entry transactions with an incomplete status and prevents them from being edited or posted until they are complete.

Note. The option is a default option. When it is cleared, it does not prevent the user from seeing the option on the header, but the user cannot set the default journal header status to incomplete.

Allow GL Entry Event Bypass

Select to enable the user to bypass selecting entry events in PeopleSoft General Ledger journal entry, even if they are required on the Installation Options - Entry Event page.

Online Journal Edit Defaults

Re-Edit Previously Edited

Select to reedit journals marked as valid. When this option is cleared, valid journals are not edited again when you run Journal Edit from the Journal Entry page by clicking the Edit button.

Note. PeopleSoft General Ledger uses these defaults whenever you edit journals from the Journal Entry pages by clicking the Edit button.

Mark Journal(s) to Post

Select to mark valid journals with a process request status of Post.

Recalc Currency Exchange Rates

Select to reprocess foreign currency conversion at the journal line level.

Journal Post Defaults

Skip Open Item Reconciliation

Select to bypass open items during the journal post process, allowing you to reconcile the open items at a later time by using the Open Item Maintenance page.

Skip Summary Ledger Update

Select to bypass summary ledger updates for this user ID when posting by clicking the post button during online journal entry.

Budget Post Options

Skip Entry Event Processing

Select to enable a specific user to post the budget that is associated with a journal entry or allocation without generating entry events through the Entry Event Processor. This may occur when an error occurs in a transaction; however, the entry event processing is correct.

Parent Budget Generation

Select to enable a specific user to generate parent budget impacts when posting child budget journals. This option determines how the Generate Parent Budget(s) option on the Commitment Control - Budget Journals - Enter Budget Journals - Budget Header page acts. Available options are:

  • Always Generate: Select this option to always generate parent budget impacts. When this option is selected, the Generate Parent Budget(s) option on the Budget Header page is also selected and the field is unavailable and cannot be changed.

  • Never Generate: Select this option to not generate parent budget impacts. When you select this option, the Generate Parent Budget(s) option on the Budget Header page is cleared and the field is unavailable and cannot be changed.

  • User Specified: Select this option to choose whether to generate parent budget impacts for each budget journal. When you select this option, the Generate Parent Budget(s) option on the Budget Header page is available for you to choose.

See Also

Understanding Journal Generator

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Inventory User Preferences

Access the Inventory page.

Order Key Defaults

Enter default values to be used in prompts for the order keys in Inventory.

Demand Source

Select a demand source. Options are based on the PeopleSoft applications that you have installed, and can include:

IN: Material stock requests originating in Inventory.

OM: Sales orders originating in Order Management.

PL: Planning requisitions originating in Supply Planning.

PR: Purchasing requisitions originating in Purchasing.

PO: Miscellaneous demands originating either as purchasing requisitions from Purchasing or from various Inventory sources such as external uploads or par location replenishment requests.

RT: Return-to-vendor requests originating in Purchasing.

SF: Production requests from the shop floor, originating in Production Management.

Source Bus Unit (source business unit)

The business unit from which the demand originated.

Auto Numbering

MSR Beginning Sequence and Receiver Beginning Sequence

Enter values if you plan to use automatic numbering to manage your stock requests and item numbers.

Putaway Default

Flag Items for Auto-Putaway

Select to use the auto-putaway function that is provided with Inventory.

Schedule Process Defaults

Server Name

The default server that is used when processes are initiated automatically from Inventory pages instead of through Process Scheduler.

See Also

Understanding Receiving and Putaway Processing

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Lease Administration User Preferences

Access the Lease Administration page.

Information that you enter on this page applies solely to the specific user ID that is identified at the top of the page. You can select default values to help minimize data entry.

Business Unit

Select the business unit that you want as the default for the system when creating leases and viewing pagelets.

Currency

Select the currency to which you want the system to default when creating leases and viewing pagelets.

Region

Select the region to which you want the system to default when creating new leases and viewing pagelets.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Manufacturing User Preferences

Access the Manufacturing page.

Server Name

Select a default server to run the Update Pick Plan and Material Release process (SFCONREL). This process can be run only on a server. When you review the production pick plan, you can optionally release the material after you've confirmed the pick plan.

See Also

Creating and Processing Picking Plans

Updating Pick Batches

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Sales Order User Preferences

Access the Orders - Sales page.

Order Defaults

Select options as defaults for the sales order for the user ID.

Order Management BU (order management business unit)

Specify the business unit to default on the sales order.

Default Order Source Code

Specify the source of the order for the user.

Beginning Sequence

Select the default prefix for the sales order number.

Default Order Quantity

Specify the order quantity to default to the sales order.

Ship From INV BU ship from inventory business unit)

Select the Inventory business unit where the order will typically be picked up. This option is used in the counter sales environment where the customer will come to the location and take the order with them.

Cash Drawer ID

Select the cash drawer that the user will be using.

Price Adjustment Reason

Select a reason code for price adjustments. This option is used for margin adjustments to default a reason code so that the user doesn't have to enter a code for each product that is adjusted.

Order Owner

Select the owner for the order. The field is used for counter sales.

Sales Order Display

This section shows how information is initially displayed during sales order entry based on the default for the business unit.

Customer Address

Init (initial): Display the customer address on the Order Header Page only when entering a new order header or displaying an existing order header from the add or search page.

Header Summary, Header Information Area, Purchase History Area, Price Summary Area, Order Summary, margin Adjustments, Line Express Entry Tab, Bill To Area, Bill-to Customer Options, Sold To Area, Sold-To Customer Options, Ship To Area, Ship-to Customer Options, Line Filter, and Line Actions

Select to move by default the display of information in the designated areas of the Order Entry Form page. During order entry, you can open or close the area as needed. Options are:

Collapsed: The section appears in a collapsed mode.

Default: The Header Summary, Header Information Area, Price Summary,Order Summary, Line Express Entry Tab, Bill to Area, Sold To Area, Ship To Area and Line Actions appear in the open mode. The Purchase History Area, Margin Adjustments, Bill-to Customer Options, Sold-To Customer Options, Ship-to Customer Options, and Line Filter appear in the collapsed mode.

Open: The section appears in an open mode.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Pay Cycle User Preferences

Access the PayCycle page.

Output Destination

Server File Destination

Enter a default output destination for files. When you are specifying the server file destination, a meta string (such as %%OutputDirectory%%) is not permitted. You must specify a full directory path followed by a backslash (for example, C:\TEMP\).

Server Destination Printer

Enter a default output destination printer.

Server

Select a server.

Email ID

Specify a recipient email address for payment error notifications. This field is limited to 70 characters.

You can enter multiple email addresses, separated by a comma (,). This is helpful in the following situations:

  • When multiple users share the same user ID.

  • When a single user has multiple email addresses.

Note. If these default values are not specified, the output destination will be required to be entered for every Structured Query Report (SQR) and Crystal Report process that is initiated from the Pay Cycle Manager and Express Check components (PYCYCL_MGR and PYMNT_EXPRESS, respectively).

See Also

Processing Pay Cycles

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Supply Planning User Preferences

Access the Planning page.

Default Planning Instance

Displays the default planning instance for the user. A planning instance is a set of data (business units, items, supplies, and demands) constituting the inputs and outputs of a supply plan.

Order Key Separator

Displays a character that is used by the system to format the display for a single field that contains a line, schedule, and kit number for sales orders and quotes in Supply Planning grids.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Project Costing User Preferences

Access the Project Costing page.

Information that you enter on this page applies solely to the specific user ID that is identified at the top of the page. You can select default values to help minimize data entry.

Data Entry Default Values

Tree Name, Tree Effective Date, and Parent Tree Node

Enter values that appear by default when you assign projects to trees.

Project Business Unit

Enter a value that appears by default in project business unit search fields in the Project Costing application.

Project

Enter a value that appears by default in project search fields.

Integration

Enter the integration template that appears by default in the Integration field on the Project Definitions - General Information page when you create projects.

Analysis Group

Enter a value that appears by default when you search for transactions on the Transaction List page.

Rate Type

Enter the default conversion rate that the system uses when you add transactions by using the Add Transactions page and the incoming transaction rate type for the business unit is Source.

Currency Code

Enter a value that appears by default in the Source Currency field when you add transactions by using the Add Transactions page.

Flexible Analysis Template

Enter the default template that specifies how flexible analysis data appears on the Flexible Analysis page.

Edit Project List Option

Select an option to specify how projects appear for selection on the My Projects page. Available options are:

BYBU: By business unit.

BYTR: By project tree.

Date Default Values

From Date and To Date

Enter a date range that appears by default when you search for transactions.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Procurement User Preferences

Access the Procurement page.

Location

Enter the default location where requested items should be delivered when they are received from the vendor.

Origin

Enter the default origin of this user's POs. The origin is used for reporting purposes.

Requester

Enter the name of the requester for whom this user will be authorized to enter requisitions.

Buyer

Enter the name of the buyer for whom this user will be authorized to enter POs.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Vendor Rebate Agreement Authorizations

Access the Procurement - Rebate Authorizations page.

Rebate Agreement Defaults

Rebate Agreement Status

Select the default status for the rebate manager when you are creating vendor rebate agreements. Statuses are Approved and Open.

Allowed Rebate Agreement Actions

Select the check box next to the specific actions that you want the rebate manager to have.

Rebate Manager Access

Unrestricted Rebate Manager

This check box is clear by default. Select this check box if you want this rebate manager to have unrestricted access to all vendor rebate agreements. This manager can view, modify (perform all the actions checked), process, and analyze all vendor rebate agreements.

See Also

Defining Vendor Rebate Agreements

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Payables User Preferences

Access the Procurement - Payables Online Vouchering page.

Origin

Select the voucher origin for this user. The system tags all vouchers that are entered by this user with this origin, and uses the processing settings for this origin when it processes the voucher.

Pay Unmatched Vouchers and Pay Unmatch Amt (pay unmatched amount)

Select Pay Unmatched Vouchers to give users the authority to pay vouchers that have not been matched up to the maximum amount that is specified in the Pay Unmatch Amt field. Authorized users must select the Pay UnMatched Voucher check box on the Voucher Attributes page in the Voucher component (VCHR_EXPRESS) for the system to select the voucher during the Pay Cycle Application Engine process (AP_APY2015).

Note. If you select the Pay Unmatched Voucher option, vouchers with the following match statuses (MATCH_STATUS_VCHR) are available for payment: T (ready), E (exception), D (dispute), O (overridden), and C (credit note).

If you do not select the Pay Unmatched Voucher option, only vouchers with the match status of M (matched) or N (no match) are available for payment.

Copy Matched and Closed PO (copy matched and closed purchase orders)

Select to enable the user to copy matched and closed POs.

Note. If this option is selected for your user preferences and you create a voucher that references a PO that has a matched line (because an earlier voucher also referenced the PO) and an unmatched line, then when you copy the PO to the voucher, the matched PO line copies with both the amount and the quantity at zero.

Override Accounting Date Edit

Select to enable the user to override the accounting date edit option on the Procurement Control - General Controls page.

Security for Voucher Styles

Click to access the Voucher Styles page, where you can define the user authority for each of the voucher styles by selecting the appropriate check boxes.

Do Not Check Voucher Amount and Check Voucher Amount

Select one of these options to determine whether the system performs an edit during online voucher entry against the voucher gross amount.

Entry Limit

If you selected Check Voucher Amount, specify the voucher entry limit amount for this user. When you specify the entry limit, you must also specify its currency and a rate type.

Prepay Limit

If this user has the authority to prepay vouchers, you can specify a maximum amount for each prepayment that the user can enter. You must also specify a currency and a rate type for the prepayment.

Currency

Specify a currency for the entry limit or prepay limit amount.

Rate Type

Specify a rate type for conversion to the transaction currency that is entered on the voucher.

Enter Vouchers Only in Groups

Select to enable the user to enter only vouchers that are attached to a control group ID as defined on the Control Group Information page.

Post Vouchers

Select to enable the user to post approved vouchers.

Manually Schedule Payments

Select to enable the user to schedule payments manually, overriding the system's automatic payment scheduling. If you do not select this option, the user is unable to modify any of the scheduled payment information on the Voucher - Payments page.

Authority to Override Match

Select to enable the user to override the match status of a voucher. If the voucher requires matching, the user has the authority to change the voucher match status to Not Applicable.

In addition, if the Matching Application Engine process (AP_MATCH) has been run but the process encountered match exceptions or errors, the user can override the match exceptions. When the exceptions are overridden, the user can rerun the Matching process; the Matching process updates the voucher match status to Matched.

Note. The Matching process still generates workflow notifications for exceptions to the user even if the Authority to Override Match option is not selected. However, the user is not able to override the match status.

Record Payment

Select to enable the user to manually record payments for a voucher. When this option is cleared, the user is unable to specify Record as a payment action on the Payments page of the Voucher component.

Note. You must also select the Manually Schedule Payments option to be able to record payments for a voucher.

Override Withhold Calculation

Select to enable the user to override the timing of the withholding calculation on the Withholding page of the Voucher component. Withholding calculation can be at payment time or voucher posting time based on the withholding entity setting.

Req. Valid Chart Field Combo's (require valid ChartField combinations)

Select this check box for the system to automatically validate ChartField combinations on Quick Invoice vouchers. If the ChartField combination is invalid, the system prevents the user from saving the voucher.

Require Balanced Invoice

Select this check box for the system to automatically perform balancing algorithms on Quick Invoice vouchers. If the vouchers are out of balance, the system prevents the user from saving the voucher.

The AP Operator Profile report (APY0003) displays accounts payable user defaults by setID.

See Also

Application Fundamentals Reports

Defining Voucher Origins

Selecting General Controls

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Receiving User Preferences

Access the Procurement - Receiver Setup page.

Change Non PO Receipt Price (change non purchase order receipt price)

Select to enable the user to change the receipt price for an item on a non-purchase order receipt.

Interface Receipt

Select to automate the passing of inventory and asset information through the Receiver Interface Push process (PO_RECVPUSH).

Subcontract Streamline

Select this check box if you want the Subcontract Streamline check box to appear selected by default for a subcontracted purchase order receipt for this user. The user will be able to override this field setting for a subcontracted purchase order receipt. The system determines whether to perform subcontract streamlining (purchase order receipt and production completion for the production ID in a single step) from the receipt.

If this check box is clear, the Subcontract Streamline check box will appear cleared for a subcontracted purchase order receipt for this user. The user will not be able to change this field setting for the subcontracted purchase order receipt. That is, this assumes subcontract streamlining is not enabled for this user.

Blind Receiving Only

Select to prevent the receiver from seeing the order quantity or the remaining quantity from the purchase order. The receiver needs to count the items before entering the quantity received. When you select this check box, the No Order Qty, Ordered Qty, and PO Remaining Qty check boxes are cleared.

No Order Qty (no order quantity)

Select to prevent the receiver from seeing the purchase order quantity. The receiver must specify the actual quantity that is received by doing a live count of the items.

Ordered Qty (ordered quantity)

Select to use the purchase order quantity as the default quantity received.

PO Remaining Qty (purchase order remaining quantity)

Select to use the remaining quantity (original order quantity minus previously received quantities) on the purchase order as the default quantity received.

Receiving Business Unit

Select the user's default receiving business unit. This business unit can be overridden during the receiving process so that you can receive goods into any valid Purchasing business unit.

Days +/- Today

Enter the number of days plus or minus the current system date to be used as default search criteria on receiving pages when you are selecting purchase order schedules against which to receive.

See Also

Receiving Non-Purchase Order Items

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Requisition User Authorizations

Access the Procurement - Requisition Authorizations page.

Can Work Approved Reqs (can work approved requisitions)

Select to enable a user to change a requisition that has already been approved.

Full Auth for All Requesters (full authority for all requesters)

Select to give the user authority to add, update, cancel, delete, and close requisitions for all requesters. If you select this option, you don't need to configure the rest of this page.

Override Preferred Vendor

Select to enable a user to change the default vendor on a requisition line. If this authority is not selected, the user is unable to manually suggest a vendor.

Override RFQ Required Rule Flag

Select to enable a user to override the RFQ Required Rule option that was previously specified for a requisition in the requisition component.

View/Override VAT Details (view or override value-added tax details)

Select to view and override VAT details within the requisition component.

Override Non-Qualified Requisitions for Close

Select to enable a user to close requisitions that are nonqualified for close.

Requesters User Authorization

Requesters User Auth For (requesters user authority for)

Requesters for whom this user can work requisitions. Select the requester that you want to designate as the user's default requester by selecting the check box to the left of the requester's name.

Add, Update, Cancel, Delete, Close, and Reopen

Select to enable the user to add, update, cancel, delete, close, and reopen requisitions for this requester.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Purchase Order User Authorizations

Access the Procurement - Purchase Order Authorizations page.

Allowed Purchase Order Actions

Can Work Approved POs (can work approved purchase orders)

Select to enable a user to change a purchase order that has already been approved or dispatched.

Full Authority for All Buyers

Select to give the user authority to add, update, cancel, delete, and close purchase orders for all buyers. If you select this option, you don't need to configure the rest of the page.

Override Non-Qualified POs for Close

Select to enable a user to close purchase orders that are nonqualified for close.

Rebate ID Security Control

Select the vendor rebate agreement security control option for purchase orders. Options are:

  • Hidden: Vendor rebate agreement fields are hidden from this user when he or she is maintaining purchase orders.

  • Update: Vendor rebate agreement fields can be updated by this user when he or she is maintaining purchase orders.

  • View Only: Vendor rebate agreement fields are only able to be viewed by this user when he or she is maintaining purchase orders.

Buyers User Authorization

Buyers User Authorized For

Select the buyers for whom this user can enter purchase orders.

Add, Update, Cancel, Delete, Close, and Reopen

Select to enable the user to add, update, cancel, delete, close, and reopen requisitions for this buyer.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Document Tolerance Authorizations

Access the Procurement - Document Tolerance Exceptions Override page.

Override Purchase Order to Requisition Exceptions

Enables you to override document tolerance exceptions that are generated when an encumbrance exceeds the preencumbrance during document tolerance checking.

Override Voucher to Purchase Order Exceptions

Enables you to override document tolerance exceptions that are generated when an expenditure exceeds the encumbrance during document tolerance checking.

See Also

Defining Document Tolerances

Running Document Tolerances

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Promotions Management User Preferences

Access the Promotions Management page.

Bank SetID, Bank Code, and Bank Account

Select the values to use as defaults in the payments process. When you create a claim with a payment method of field draft, the system provides the bank code and bank account values that are defined here. (You can override these values.) You then use the payment interface to send this claim to Payables, and the system creates a voucher or payment.

National Allowance Prefix, Promotions Prefix, and Claims Prefix

Select the prefixes. The system uses these prefixes in the automatic numbering process when creating national allowances or customer promotions or when processing claims. You create the prefix values when you define number types on the Automatic Numbering page. When you create the claim number type, you are creating the values for the claims prefix. The values for the national allowance prefix and promotions prefix are tied to the promotion code number type.

View Product Cost?

Select to enable the user to view product cost details in PeopleSoft Promotions Management. If you have access to view product cost details, you can consider this data as a determining factor in analyzing planned versus actual customer promotion metrics.

See Also

Setting Up Automatic Numbering

Setting Up Banks

Processing Payments for Promotional Activity

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Receivables User Preferences

Access the Receivables Data Entry 1 page.

Group Unit and Deposit Unit

Enter values that become the user's default values for business units. Although the user can override these default values, you can minimize data entry by entering the user's most frequently used business unit. The system uses the group unit and deposit unit as the default business unit for online pending groups, deposits, and worksheets.

Use the address fields to store addresses for follow-up letters. The address information that you enter on this page is not validated against any table.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Receivables Write-off and Discount Tolerances

Access the Receivables Data Entry 2 page.

Payment Worksheet

Enter the write-off tolerances and discount tolerances for the payment worksheet.

Discount Tolerance

Enter the percent and amount to use to calculate the discount tolerance. These tolerances enable the user to enter an unearned discount amount that is less than or equal to the value that you enter. Enter the additional percentage that the user can add to the payment terms.

For example, if an item is 700.00 and the discount terms are 2 percent for 10/Net30, the normal discount would be 14.00. If you enter 10 in the percent field, the user can take up to an additional 10 percent of the discount amount, which is 1.40. The total discount would be 15.40. However, the total discount can never be more than the value in the amount field.

Underpayment Write-Off and Overpayment Write-Off

Enter the percent and amount that defines the maximum write-off for underpayments and overpayments. These values apply only to automatic write-offs. These values do not apply to standalone overpayments or underpayments. The user can enter an adjustment below the amount as long as the amount does not exceed the percentage of the payment.

Item Write-Off

Enter the highest amount that this user can write off when the user writes off an amount for an individual item on a payment worksheet.

Maintenance Worksheet

Enter the write-off tolerances for the maintenance worksheet.

Warning! If you do not define write-off tolerances for the user, the system uses zero for the user's write-off tolerances, and the user cannot write off items.

Max Write Off (maximum write-off)

Enter the maximum amount that the user can write off for either an individual item or for the remaining balance for a normal group or match group. The user can write off an amount below the maximum amount as long as it does not exceed the percentage of the original amount for the item. For example, if you enter an amount of 25.00, the user can write off amounts up to 25.00. However, if you enter a maximum write-off percentage of 10 percent, and the total original amount of an item is 240.00, the user cannot write off more than 24.00.

For no limit, enter all 9s.

Max Refund (maximum refund)

Enter the maximum refund amount that a user can create.

Write-off Days

Enter the minimum age of an item before a user can write it off on the maintenance worksheet. For no limit, enter 0.

Max WO Percent (maximum write-off percent)

Enter the maximum percentage of an item that this user can write off. For no limit, enter 100.

Override Write off Tolerance

Select to enable the user to write off items or amounts that do not meet the write-off tolerances that are defined for the business unit, customer, or entry reason as long as the write-off meets the user's write-off tolerances. If the user's write-off action exceeds the tolerances in the business unit, customer, or entry reason levels, the system issues only a warning.

Currency Precision

Format Currency

Enter the currency for the write-off tolerance amounts for conversion purposes. The system uses this currency to calculate the tolerance amounts for an item.

See Also

Write-off Tolerances

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Strategic Sourcing User Preferences

Access the Strategic Sourcing page.

Permissions and Defaults

Set up the formats and types of events that the user can create and that are defaults. You can give the user permission to create buy, sell, or RFI events of auction or RFx types.

Event Authorizations

Select the event actions that are authorized for the selected user ID so that the user can approve, cancel, award events, or award more than the requested quantity.

Note. If you are integrating with Purchasing, you must have the authority to enter and approve vendors using the Procurement User Preferences - Vendor Processing Authority page. Selecting the option to award events here does not mean that you have access to Purchasing vendor pages, but it enables you to actually post an award on the Award Details page. Also, you must have the authority to create POs and contracts in Purchasing to award events to a PO or contract.

Copy-From Transactions

You can use requisitions, manufacturing BOMs, POs, engineering BOMs, contracts, or planning orders as the basis of Strategic Sourcing events. While creating events, you can copy from any transactions that are selected on the user preferences page.

Sourcing Constraint Permission

Select the constraint types for which you want to allow overwriting of default mandatory constraints. Options are:

  • Event

  • Business Unit

  • Global

During the posting of the award, the system will check the user's permissions. If one or more default mandatory constraints have been violated, the following will occur:

  • If you have the authority to override a mandatory constraint, you will receive a warning that the constraint has been violated.

    You can then choose to cancel or proceed with the award.

  • If you do not have the authority to override a mandatory constraint, you will receive an error that the constraint has been violated.

    You will not be able to post the award.

Note. If you manually add a mandatory constraint to an event, the system does not prevent you from posting an award if that constraint was violated. Only mandatory constraints are passed as default constraints onto an event. These mandatory constraints are based on the default rules, and the system checks to determine whether the award can proceed.

See Creating Global Policies and Constraints.

Template Type

Select the sourcing template type to enable for the selected user ID. Values are:

  • Business Unit: User will have access to all sourcing business unit templates that are created for the user's default business unit.

  • Department: User will have access to all sourcing department templates that are created for the user's specified department ID.

  • Personal: User will have access to all sourcing personal templates that are created by that user.

Select the appropriate check box to give the user access to add, update, or delete templates.

See Also

Creating Events

Copying Events from Other Transactions

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Staffing General Preferences

Access the Staffing - General Preferences page.

Branch

Enter the staffing branch to be associated with the user ID.

As of Date

Select a date to be used on some reports to populate the $AsOfDate variable.

Currency Code

Select the initial or default value for the currency that you want the system to supply the applicant setup pages.

National ID Type

Select a default format for the applicant and employee pages to track a person's tax identification number, such as social security number or social insurance number.

Email Signature

Enter a signature to be used on emails that are sent using the Send Email page.

Show Completed Agenda Items

This option applies only when Staffing Front Office is installed. Select to indicate that the completed items appear initially in the agenda pages.

Order Approval Security

This option indicates whether a user can save orders with a status of Approved. When this check box is cleared, users can save only orders with a status of Pending Approval. Orders pending approval can only be saved with a status of Draft and cannot have assignments created. Consider using this feature with the order customer self-service component. For example, you may not want to give order approval access to the user IDs that are granted to your customers.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Staffing Job Data Preferences

Access the Staffing - Job Data page.

Email and Phone

Email Type

Select Business, Campus, Dorm, Home, or Other to indicate which email address type to default when adding applicants to the system.

Phone Type

Select a type, such as Business, FAX, or Main, to indicate the preferred phone number type to default when adding applicants to the system.

Job Information

The values entered in the following fields will be used as defaults when you are adding applicants to the system. Users can override or keep these default values. After the applicant is hired, if Pay/Bill Management is installed, these field values will be used to create the employee job record in HRMS, driving the process by which the employee should be paid.

Company

Enter a default value for the company to be associated with the applicants that you add to the system. The company is the employer or legal entity who hires the employee.

Pay Group

Enter a default value for the Payroll for North America pay group to be associated with the applicants that you add to the system. Payroll for North America may have several pay groups, for weekly, bimonthly, and monthly pay, for example. Each organization has its own set of valid paygroups.

Global Pay Group

Enter a default value for the Global Payroll pay group to be associated with the applicants that you add to the system.

Note. This field is applicable only if Pay/Bill Management and Global Payroll are installed.

Job Code

Enter a default value for the job code to be associated with the applicants that you add to the system.

Benefit Program

Enter a default value for the benefit program to be associated with the applicants that you add to the system. In HRMS, you may define several benefit programs based on the different types of benefits that your company extends to its employees.

Tax Location Code

Enter a default taxing location to be associated with the applicants that you add to the system. This information is used by Payroll for North America to determine how taxes should be withheld.

HR Business Unit (human resources business unit)

Enter a default business unit to associate with the applicants that you add to the system. This information applies only when Pay/Bill Management is installed.

Workgroup

Enter a default workgroup to associate with the applicants that you add to the system. Workgroups are used by the Time and Labor application, among other things, to determine which Time and Labor rule programs to apply to reported time, which time reporting codes are available to employees in the group, and whether time entry approval is required. This information applies only when Pay/Bill Management is installed.

Taskgroup

Enter a default taskgroup to associate with the applicants that you add to the system. Taskgroups are used by the Time and Labor application, among other things, to determine which task-related information should be captured when you are entering time into the system. This information applies only when Pay/Bill Management is installed.

Department

Enter a default department ID to associate with the applicants that you add to the system.

Location Code

Enter a default location code to associate with the applicants that you add to the system.

Allow forcing additional jobs

Select to enable power users to override the system logic that reuses employee job records across different assignments. This option is applicable only when Pay/Bill Management is installed.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Supplier Contract Management User Preferences

Access the Supplier Contract Management page.

This user preference page is enabled only for users who have administration rights for authored contracts, and those users can approve library sections and set configurator status.

Document Authorizations

The application administrator uses this group box to grant users security for document administrators and users who will manage section approvals and status changes for configurators.

Full Authorization for All Documents

Select to grant a user the authority to perform all tasks that are listed on this page. This user has full authority for all users in the system, and is considered a super user with access to perform all actions on contracts in the system. When you select the check box, the system disables the remaining fields and check boxes and they cannot be changed. If you do not select to fully authorize the user for all documents, then you can select individual authorizations for document tasks.

Document Administrator

Select to indicate that the user has document administrator authority to perform selected contract document tasks. As a document administrator, users can generate, regenerate, refresh, check out, edit, and check in documents. You can select one or all tasks in this grid.

Document administrators can also control life cycles for contracts for authors by submitting contracts for collaboration and approvals.

Approve Sections

Select to indicate that the user can mark a section as approved, making the section available for use in documents. Section statuses can be changed or set to Approved using the Section Definition page.

Change Configurator Status

Select to indicate that the user can update the status of a document configurator. You can change Configurator statuses using the Configurator Definition page.

Bypass Approval

Select to indicate that the user can set a document to bypass approvals. This means that the document can be automatically set to approved. Normally approved steps are required, but when necessary, the user can expedite the document. When users have the authority to push a document through its approvals, the Bypass Approval button appears on the Document Management page.

Reset to Dispatch

Select to indicate that the user can reset a document to a Dispatched status. After a document has been completed between a supplier and customer, it is in an Executed status. At that status, the Reset to Dispatch button is available on the Document Management page. This feature is useful if you want to do minor changes, such as correct typographical errors, in the current version of the document without processing an amendment.

Authorize Document Access for

These authorizations enable this user to act on behalf of other users who are selected in the Document Administrator column of the grid. You might use this feature, for example, if the selected user is a senior contract administrator, and while members of his department or group are away from the office, then the user has the authority to perform tasks for his or her documents.

Document Administrator (column)

Select additional users for whom the selected user will have authority to perform document tasks. Use the corresponding check boxes to define the authorities for the selected user.

Document Administrator (check box)

Select to indicate that the selected user has document administrator authority for the corresponding user's documents. This means that the selected user can generate and edit the user's documents just as if he were the administrator.

Reset to Dispatch

Select to indicate that the selected user has authority to reset a processed contract document back to dispatch for the corresponding user. This authority is in addition to any other task authorities that you select in this grid.

Bypass Approval

Select to indicate that the selected user has authority to bypass approvals and expedite a contract document for the corresponding user. This authority is in addition to any other task authorities that you select in this grid.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Maintenance Management User Preferences

Access the Maintenance Management page.

Service Request Business Unit

Select the business unit that you want to serve as the default service request business unit value when this user creates a service request. Normally business unit is not exposed to self-service users and they can never override it; however, agents creating new service requests via the Agent Service Request component may override the business unit default.

Service Request Center

Select the Service Request Center that you want to serve as the default value whenever this user creates a service request. Users can override this value in the service request.

Work Order Business Unit

Select the business unit that you want to serve as the default work order business unit value when this user creates a work order without a service request. Users can override this value at the work order level. This is also the default business unit for the Task Search page used by the Technician Workbench, the Work Order Workbench, the Crew Scheduling Workbench, and the Labor Assignment Workbench.

Note. Work orders that are created from service requests derive the work order business unit from the Problem Tree setup, not from user preferences.

Asset Management Business Unit

Select the business unit that you want to serve as the default Asset Management business unit value in a work order for this user. Users can override this value in the work order.

Authorized to Enter Inventory

Select this check box to enable this user to select and enter inventory items in the work order.

Note. If you leave this check box blank, the Inventory link on the Work Order component's Requirements and Scheduling pages, the Express Work Order page, and the Work Order Workbench are unavailable for selection. This setting overrides the selections in the work order business unit and/or shop.

Copy to New Work Order

Select this check box to enable this user to copy an existing work order to a new work order.

Note. The Copy button in the work order is not visible unless this check box is selected.

Allowed to Reserve Inventory

Select this check box to enable this user to create online, immediate reservations by selecting a Reserve button in the Work Order component. Selecting the Reserve button enables the user to override the Commit and Reservation Rule default hierarchy and reserve selected items in the work order task immediately. The default hierarchy is based on how the rules are specified in the business unit, shop, and work order type,

Complete a WO (complete a work order)

Select this check box to enable this user to change the status of a work order to Complete in the Work Order component, the Technician Workbench, and the Work Order Completion component.

Note. This option only applies to a manual close does not enable this user to perform the WO_CLOSE batch close process.

Authorized to Procure

Select this check box to enable this user to select various procurement options within the Purchase/On Hand schedule page of the Work Order component. If this option is not selected, the user will not be able to procure items from a work order.

Close a WO (close a work order)

Select this check box to enable this user to close a work order online.

Note. This option only applies to a manual close and does not enable this user to perform the WO_CLOSE batch close process.

View WO Requirements (view work order requirements)

Select this check box to enable this user to view work order requirements by enabling access to the Labor, Inventory, Purchase/On-hand, and Tools links in the Requirements page of the Work Order component. If you do not select this check box, then the Labor, Inventory, Purchase/On-hand, and Tools links are not available on the Requirements page of the Work Order component

Note. This user can only view this information if any of the Schedule Labor, Schedule Inventory, or Schedule Tools options in a work order's business unit are selected.

Authorized to set Asset Action

Select this check box to enable specific users to select the Asset Action for a task on the Requirements page of the work order. The Asset Action dropdown list enables you to install, retire, and replace assets.

View Scheduled Resources

Select this check box to enable this user to view work order resource schedules in the Schedules page of the Work Order component and to enable drill down to it from the Crew Schedule Inquiry page.

Note. This user can only view this information if any of the Schedule Labor, Schedule Inventory, or Schedule Tools options in a work order's business unit are selected.

Authorize Cost Recovery Claim

Select this check box to enable this user to create a warranty claim. If you do not select this check box, the Warranty Claim link is not available on the Schedules page of the Work Order component.

View and Update Accounting

Select this check box to enable this user to view and update the accounting ChartField distributions on the Schedules page for labor, inventory, purchase/on-hand, and tools in the Work Order component. Selecting this check box also enables users to view and update the ChartField distributions on the Tools Cost tab of the Tool Usage page in the Technician Workbench and the Work Order Completion component.

Selecting this check box also enables access to the distribution templates for the Inventory, Labor, and Purchase/On-Hand Schedules in the Work Order component. However, these options are not available in the Technician Workbench or the Work Order Completion component.

Run Picking Plan

Select this check box to enable this user to select the Picking Plan button to generate a picking plan.

Note. The Picking Plan button in the Schedules page of the work order, on the Technician Workbench, and the Work Order Completion component is not available for selection unless this check box is selected.

Picking Plan Run Control

Click this link to access Inventory's Process/Options page where you must set up pick plan run control data, which is used to allocate parts selected in Maintenance Management to Inventory and runs an SQR (structured query report) to create the picking plan list.

See Assigning and Scheduling Inventory Resources for Work Order Tasks.

View and Update Labor Rates

Select this check box to enable this user to view and update the labor rates in the work order. When this option is selected the user can override any default rates from a business unit, shop, or craft.

Note. You cannot update labor cost and bill rates in the Work Order Completion component.

Override Capital Limit

Select this check box to enable this user to override the capitalization limit on the Task Accounting component, which is set up on the Maintenance Management, Setup, Capitalization Rules component for the asset used in a work order. The user can increase or decrease the minimum amount that it costs to repair an asset in a work order task before it can be capitalized by Project Costing.

Note. If you do not select this check box, the capitalization limit cannot be accessed by this user.

See Defining Work Order Capitalization Limits.

View and Update Tools Rates

Select this check box to enable a user to view and update the cost rate and billing rate for tools in the work order, the Technician Workbench, and the Work Order Completion component. If this check box is left blank, these rates become unavailable to access.

Allow Submit Time for Posting

Select this check box to enable a user to select the Submit Time for Posting button in the Time Entry page of the Technician Workbench and Work Order Completion page. This check box is selected by default. Selecting this check box prevents this user from submitting work order task time entries to Expenses for posting. The user can enter time. In addition, selecting this option enables the user's manager or supervisor to edit the time entry, if necessary, and then submit it to posting.

If you do not select this check box, the Submit Time for Posting button does not appear on the Time Entry page in the Technician Workbench or on the Work Order Completion component for this user.

Schedule Labor

Select this check box to enable a user, such as a craft supervisor, to schedule labor resources for a work order task. This check box must be selected for anyone responsible for scheduling labor resources in your organization.

Allow Access to Search Views

Select this check box to enable a user to select the View button on the Technician Workbench to access the Task Search page and search for and access any task based on the search criteria entered on the Task Search page.

If you do not select this check box, the View button does not appear on the Technician Workbench page for this user. In this case, the technician (user) only has access to specific work order tasks based on predefined views.

Schedule Tools

Select this check box to enable a user, such as a tools supervisor, to schedule tools for a work order task. This check box must be selected for anyone responsible for scheduling tools in your organization.

Allow Access to Other's Tasks

Select this check box to enable a technician to access another technician's work order task in the Technician's Workbench. Selecting this check box enables a user, other than the assigned user, to remove or change the technician's user ID from the Assigned To field on the Task Search page and search for more than one user's assigned tasks. If this check box is not selected, the Assigned To field on the Task Search page associated with the Technician Workbench defaults to the assigned technician and cannot be modified.

Note. Selecting this check box only applies to the Technician Workbench and not the Work Order Completion component. Any user with access to the Work Order Completion component can enter time for multiple employees assigned to one or more tasks associated with a selected work order.

Update Crew Schedule Metrics

 

Select this check box to enable specific users to manually update the crew schedule compliance on the Crew Schedule Compliance Revision page of the Crew Schedule Metrics component and enables selection of the Update Schedule Metrics check box on the Maintenance Schedule Completion Report Request page of the Schedule Completion Report.

Allow Access to WO Security(allow access to work order security)

Select this check box to enable a user to access the Work Order Access page, from the Miscellaneous page of the Work Order component. Users click on the Technician Work Order Access link and add shops, which restricts user access to the work order and its tasks in the Technician Workbench based on whether they are listed as resources in the shops added to this page.

See Setting Up a Work Order Business Unit.

Allow Planned Downtime

Select this check box to enable a user to enter planned downtime for an asset specified for a work order task. Users can enter planned and actual downtime for an asset via the Downtime Entry component, a link at the work order task level in the Work Order Component, and a link at the work order task level on the Technician Workbench . When the work order is closed, the asset downtime updates the Asset Maintenance History. This information can be useful for creating warranty claims based on the downtime of an asset.

If you do not select this check box, the downtime Planned tab does not display, and users can only enter the actual downtime.

Note. Downtime entries are not updated to Warranty Claim processing.

Apply WO Access Securityapply work order access security

Select this check box to enable a user to determine whether to apply no security, shop security, resource pool security, or shop and resource pool security to work orders depending which option is selected in the work order business unit.

The user sets up work order security to enable a technician, who is associated with a specific shop and/or a specific project's resource pool, to access work order tasks based on those associations in the Technician Workbench and the Express Work Order components. If this option is selected, then the Technician will only have access to Work Orders based on the Work Order Access security options, otherwise, no security is applied.

Allow Override Metrics

Select this check box to allow the confirmation of metrics on past or current periods for the crew selected on the Crew Scheduling Workbench.

Report Crew Carryover Hours

Select this check box to enable specific users to access the Report Carryover Hours Action and update the Carryover Hours field on the Report Crew Assignment Time component, which is accessible through the Technician Workbench.

Report Crew Assgnmt Completion(report crew assignment completion)

Select this option to enable specific users to access the Report Completed Hours and Report Completed Date fields. It enables users to update the Completed Hours and Completed Date fields on the Report Crew Assignment Time component, which is accessible through the Technician Workbench or the Crew Assignments grid of the Crew Scheduling Workbench.

Service Group

Select the Service Group to serve as the default value for a work order created by this user. Users can override this value at the work order level.

Shop

Select the shop to serve as the default value for a work order created by this user. Users can override this value at the work order level.

Asset Type

Select the asset type to display as the default value in the work order, which is used to search for assets to maintain or repair in the work order.

You can override this value in the work order.

Calendar Item Link Option

Select the component that you want to access when you select a work order assignment link on a resource's calendar. When you click on a work order task assignment on a resource's calendar, the link takes this user to either the Work Order or the Technician Workbench, depending on selecting either:

  • Technician Workbench (default)

  • Work Order

Resource Group ID

Select the resource group ID value to use as the default value in the work order.

Note. The Resource Group ID is used in the Matching process to match members in the group to demand for resources. This default value is normally set up for users who schedule work orders and use the matching process.

Note. This option only applies to the Time Entry page of the Technician Workbench. It does not apply to time entered on the Work Order Completion component.

Time Report Method

Select the format by which this user records their time worked on work order tasks on the Technician Workbench Time Entry page. Options are:

Elapsed Time: Select to report time as the total hours worked per day.

Punch Time: Select to report times by entering start times and end times.

See Executing and Completing Work Orders.