Understanding Generic Reports

Absence Management provides the framework for you to define your own generic reports of basic absence results. With generic reports, you can set up result table queries that best suit your needs. These queries are useful for quickly viewing data. They are not a substitute for the SQRs used to create final, publishable reports.

There are three types of generic reports that show different views of the same information:

• Element List

  A list of absence elements for each employee for a period. Define each column as a set of numeric elements, which are accumulated.

• Summary

  A list of user-defined absence elements for the absence periods between two dates for each employee. Define each row as a set of numeric elements, which are accumulated. On the run control page you define each column with a From Date and a To Date.

• Accumulator

  Displays totals of selected accumulators for each employee. On the run control page, you define the absence calendars for which the report should be printed.

All of these reports enable you to select sort options and break levels. If you define break levels, the system prints a total for each break, as the break occurs, and prints a grand total at the end of the report. If no breaks are defined, no totals are printed for the report. Depending on the break levels, an employee can appear more than once on a single report (the same employee but with different segment numbers).

For all three report types, the maximum number of columns is 12.