Calculating DIF and DIF in Advance Balances
Using the training hours entered through Administer Training or Enterprise Learning Management, Global Payroll for France calculates both DIF entitlement (FOR AC DROIT DIF) and DIF in advance (FOR VR DIF NEGATIF) balances for all trainees and loads this data into a table using the writable array FOR WA DIF HR. Users of Training Administration and Enterprise Learning Management can then import DIF balances and DIF in advance hours back into their learning management systems, making it available to learners and administrators who need to determine whether there are enough hours in a student's DIF balance to permit additional DIF allocations.
This section explains how each application imports DIF and DIF in advance balances generated in Global Payroll for France.
Note: The element FOR AC DROIT DIF stores the DIF entitlement balance and is calculated as the trainee's DIF allocation minus the DIF hours already used. The element FOR VR DIF NEGATIF stores the number of hours of additional DIF training (DIF in advance) that can be granted beyond what is available in the DIF balance.
Note: Depending on company policy, you can allocate DIF training hours that exceed the entitlement balance by allowing the DIF entitlement to go into negative numbers. For example, if a trainee's DIF entitlement balance is 2, you can grant a total of 7 DIF hours by enabling the DIF entitlement balance to drop to –5. To do this, access one of the supporting element override pages in PeopleSoft Global Payroll and set the value of FOR VR DIF NEGATIF to 5.
Importing DIF and DIF in Advance Balances into Administer Training
If you are a Training Administration user, complete these steps to import the balance data:
Run the payroll process in Global Payroll.
Run the import process using the DIF Payroll Import page
On this page you specify the begin and end dates of the payroll period for which you want to import the DIF and DIF in advance balance data and the pay group for which you want to retrieve the data.
Importing DIF and DIF in Advance Balances into Enterprise Learning Management
If you are an Enterprise Learning Management user, you import DIF and DIF in advance balances from Global Payroll indirectly, by way of Administer Training. To do this, complete these steps:
Run the payroll process in Global Payroll.
Import the DIF and DIF in advance balances into Administer Training using the DIF Payroll Import page
Run the full sync integration point: LM_DIF_BALANCE_FULLSYNC to load the balances in Administer Training into a staging table.
Run the Process FullSync Data (LM_LD_STGDAT ) process to validate and load the balances into Enterprise Learning Management.