Sending Setup Data to a TCD

Time and Labor sends (publishes) setup data to your TCD in the form of messages associated with service operations. The publish process can be scheduled to run once or multiple times a day. All information contained in one set of published messages replaces the previously stored information at the TCD level. The date the system uses to retrieve TCD information is always the current date.

Image: Time and Labor publishes information to a TCD

This diagram depicts how Time and Labor publishes information to your TCD

Incremental messages are sent when time reporter data changes in Time and Labor. Incremental messages are sent when you change:

• Time reporter status.

• The TCD group associated to the time reporter.

• The elements in a TCD group.

You can send the published messages to all or selected message nodes/comm servers.

Use the TCD Usage report to determine how many values of each kind of reporting element are sent to a TCD.

Integration Points Used to Send Setup Data to a Third-Party TCD

The following table lists the integration points that the Time and Labor TCD interface uses to send setup information from Time and Labor to a third-party TCD. All TCD integration points are batch published.

Functional Name	Service Operation	QUEUE
T&L Payable Time Totals by TRC	TIME_DEVICE_PER_HRS_FULLSYNC	TIME_COLLECTION_DEVICE_SETUP
T&L REPORTING ELEMENTS	TIME_DEVICE_RPT_ELMNT_FULLSYNC	TIME_COLLECTION_DEVICE_SETUP
T&L SUPERVISORS	TIME_DEVICE_SUPERVISOR_FULLSYNC	TIME_COLLECTION_DEVICE_SETUP
T&L TASK ELEMENT CODE VALUES	TIME_DEVICE_TASK_VALS_FULLSYNC	TIME_COLLECTION_DEVICE_SETUP
T&L TASK PROFILES	TIME_DEVICE_PROFILES_FULLSYNC	TIME_COLLECTION_DEVICE_SETUP
T&L TASK TEMPLATES	TIME_DEVICE_TEMPLATES_FULLSYNC	TIME_COLLECTION_DEVICE_SETUP
T&L TIME REPORTER DATA	TIME_DEVICE_EMPL_ATT_FULLSYNC	TIME_COLLECTION_DEVICE_SETUP
T&L TIME REPORTER SCHEDULES (Outbound)	TIME_DEVICE_SCHEDULE_FULLSYNC	TIME_COLLECTION_DEVICE_SETUP
T&L TIME REPORTER PUNCH RESTRICTION RULE	TIME_DEVICE_RESTRICT_FULLSYNC	TIME_COLLECTION_DEVICE_SETUP
T&L TRC INFORMATION	TIME_DEVICE_RPTG_CODE_FULLSYNC	TIME_COLLECTION_DEVICE_SETUP

Note: To research the technical details of any integration point used by PeopleSoft applications, refer to the Interactive Services Repository on My Oracle Support.

TCD Message Types

Time and Labor uses the information you defined on the TCD setup pages to control the data going to your TCD. The following table summarizes the types of TCD messages.

Table	Comment
Time Reporter	Contains basic information about a time reporter.
Schedule	Contains a time reporter's daily schedules.
Restriction Profile	Contains restriction information from the TCD Restriction page.
Total Hours	Contains total hours already worked in the current week. Your TCD displays this information to the time reporter or supervisor.
Time Reporting Code	Contains various TRCs for elapsed time reporting purposes (sick, vacation, holiday, and so on).
TCD Supervisor	Contains a list of supervisors who are authorized to perform supervisor functions at various TCDs.
TCD Task Profile	Contains a list of task profiles associated with each TCD. The system uses task profiles for positive task profile reporting, where the time reporter must indicate the type of work being performed.
TCD Task Template	Contains a list of task templates associated with each TCD. The system uses task templates for positive task element reporting, where the time reporter must indicate the type of work being performed as well as labor information. Task templates also identify rule elements, which define how the time reporter is paid. These are additional task elements the time reporter can report.
Reporting Element Tables	Contains a list of countries, states, localities, comp rate codes, currency codes, and override reason codes, which a time reporter can override when reporting time.

Use the Send Setup to TCD page (TL_TCD_RUN_PNL) to publish setup information for your TCD to retrieve from Time and Labor.

This page can also be used to Generate a TCD Usage report that sums up the number of elements transmitted to a TCD during time reporting. The TCD Usage report can be used to estimate the memory requirements of each TCD.

Image: Send Setup to TCD page

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Send Setup to TCD page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Field or Control	Definition
All Msg Nodes/Comm Servers	Select to publish the information to all your TCDs (message nodes).
Specific Msg Nodes/Comm Servrs	Select to send to a specific message node, or TCD.
Generate TCD Usage Report	Select to generate a TCD Usage report for this TCD run. Select this check box if you want the system to generate a summary TCD Usage report for this TCD run.
Include Detail	Select to generate a detail report for all the values being sent for this TCD run. Only available if Generate TCD Usage Report is selected.
Language Code	Select the language the report will be printed in.
Message Node Name	Enter a TCD (message node) to send the data to. Only available if Specific Msg Nodes/Comm Servrs is selected.

What is actually sent to the time collection device is determined by the parameters defined on the TCD Type pages associated to each TCD.

The TCD Usage report summarizes the following:

• The number of time reporters sent to the TCD.

• The number of rows of total payable time hours sent for the time reporter's current period.

• The number of punches from the time reporters punch schedules.

• The number of time collection device supervisors associated with that TCD.

• The number of restriction profiles associated with that TCD.

• The number of time reporting codes sent to the TCD.

• The number of task templates sent to the TCD.

• The number of task elements sent to the TCD.

• The number of task values sent to the TCD.

• The number of countries sent to the TCD.

• The number of states sent to the TCD.

• The number of localities sent to the TCD.

• The number of compensation rate codes sent to the TCD.

• The number of override reasons sent to the TCD.

• The number of currency codes sent to the TCD.

For the detail page of the Usage report, the following elements are detailed if they are sent to your TCD:

• Time reporter

  • Employee ID

  • Record #

  • Badge ID

  • First name

  • Last name

• TCD supervisors

  • Supervisor ID

  • Badge ID

• Restriction profiles

  • Restriction profiles

  • Description

• Time reporting codes

  • Time reporting code

  • Description

• Task profiles

  • Task Profile ID

  • Description

• Task templates

  • Task template

  • Description

• Task elements

  • Task Template ID

  • Task element code

  • Description

See the product documentation for PeopleTools PeopleSoft Process Scheduler