Before you begin adding employee records to your system, you should set up employee information. If you need to track information that is unique to your organization or your industry, you can define category codes. To allow users to enter future changes for specific types of information, you can choose fields for future data revisions.
This chapter contains these topics:
Set up the user defined codes for employees. See Section 61.1, "Setting Up User Defined Codes for Human Resources."
From Job Specifications (G08J1), enter 29
From Employee Information Setup (G08E4), choose Employee Category Codes
From Employee Category Codes Setup (G08E41) choose an option
You might need to track information that is unique to your organization or your industry. For example, you might need to track the employees who are participating in the company stock purchase plan. JD Edwards World provides category codes that you can define to track any type of additional information that your organization needs.
Category codes for Human Resources are a type of user defined code that you use to classify employees for tracking and reporting. You can define up to 20 category codes in the Human Resources system to match the specific requirements of your organization.
To define category codes for Human Resources
Complete the following fields:
Code
Description
Complete the following optional field:
Description-2
From Human Resources (G08), choose Employee Information
From Job Specifications (G08J1), enter 29
From Employee Information Setup (G08E4), choose Specify Future Data Fields
You choose fields for future data revisions to activate data items in the Employee Master table that can be updated using the future data functions. For example, you activate the Marital Status field so that, in the event of marriage, you can change the employee's marital status in the Employee Master table using the future data function.
Note:
You cannot change the activation value in some of the fields.To choose fields for future data revisions
Figure 67-2 Specify Future Data Fields screen
In the following field, enter a Y for each data item for which you want to allow revisions:
Yes/No
To review the data item code associated with the data item description, access the detail area.
Figure 67-3 Specify Future Data Fields (Detail) screen