Setting Up the Time and Labor Mobile Applications

With PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface and related Mobile Applications functionality, the user can perform the Time and Labor related tasks from a smart phone or a tablet.

The Mobile Applications enable the managers to use a tablet to review time reporting exceptions for their employees. If the employe enables the Global Positioning Service (GPS) in their device, then the managers can view the physical location of their employees.

The Mobile Applications in the Time and Labor allow the managers to use the smart phone or tablet for performing the following tasks:

  • View and resolve timecard exceptions

  • View employee time reporting location on a map.

Using Mobile Applications, the employee can report both punch and elapsed time from a phone or a tablet. Mobile Applications facilitate the employee to report compensatory time, accrued and compensatory time taken, vacation and sick time. The employee can also view payable time and leave and compensatory balances.

The Mobile Applications in Time and Labour allow the employees to use their smart phone for performing the following tasks:

  • Reporting Time

  • Reporting Leave and Compensatory Time

  • Viewing Reported Time by week or day

  • Viewing Payable Time

  • Entering User Preferences for defaulting and viewing time data

For more information, see PeopleTools: PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface Developer’s Guide and Working with PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface in PeopleTools: Applications User’s Guide.

Page Name

Definition Name

Usage

Time and Labor Installation Page

TL_INSTALLATION

Set up general system defaults and activate specific features for the Time and Labor application. Refer Time and Labor Installation section in Setting Up System Defaults and Loading Dates

Workgroup - Definition Page

TL_WRKGRP_DEF

Select Payable Time Range options to define how the time range will be displayed on the Payable Time Summary page.

Workgroup — Approval / Timesheet Control Page

TL_WRKGRP_APPV

Select the Require Employee Sign-Off On Timesheet field to enable a legal statement on all submitted timesheets.

Configurations Page

TL_INSTL_PUNCH

Set up schedule total options, schedule resolution options, and punch pattern defaults for the Time and Labor application.

User Preferences Page

TL_INST_TR_PREF

Use to select the preferences to be rolled out to employees on an individual preference basis. The new User Preferences tab is added to the Time and Labor Installation Components.

The Time and Labor Installation page allows the administrators to run the real time rules on Submit when an employee reports time. The values available for the Real Time Rules field on the Time and Labor Installation page are:

  • Real Time Rules Not Enabled

  • Run from Submit button

  • Run from Apply Rules button

When Run from Apply Rules button is selected on the Installation page, an Apply Rules button will appear on the Timesheet, but it will not appear in the PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface. Select the option Run on Submit to enable the run Real Time Rules in PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface, while the employees are submitting the time. When Real Time Rules Not Enabled is selected, the rules will not be run on submit.

Use the Workgroup — Definition Page (TL_WRKGRP_APPV) to define how the time range is displayed on the Payable Time Summary screen.

Navigation:

Main Menu > Set Up HCM > Product Related > Time and Labor > Rules and Workgroups > Workgroup > Definition

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Workgroup — Definition Page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Workgroup_Definition Page

Field or Control

Description

Payable Time Range

There are three options available: Date Range,Pay Period and the Time Period. The default values for the date fields on the Payable Time page is different in each case.

For Date Range and Time Period, the default value is for the current Time Period. In case of Pay Period, the default value is for the current Pay Period,

Use Workgroup — Approval / Timesheet Control Page (TL_WRKGRP_APPV) to enable a legal statement on all submitted timesheets.

Navigation:

Main Menu > Set Up HCM > Product Related > Time and Labor > Rules and Workgroups > Workgroup > Approval / Timesheet Control

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Workgroup — Approval / Timesheet Control Page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Workgroup Approval page

Field or Control

Description

Require Employee Sign-off on Timesheet

When enabled the checkbox, the Employee sign off/ View Legal Statement is enabled for an employee in the Time Reporting Page. Employee sign off is applicable for Timesheet and Report Leave pages.

Note: Use the checkbox for Use Quick-Fill for Time Detail under Timesheet Controls to enable the Quick fill for time entries. This option is available only when it is enabled at Installation level.

Use the Configurations page (TL_INSTL_PUNCH) to set up schedule total options, schedule resolution options, and punch pattern defaults for the Time and Labor application. Also use the page to specify the radius of the multiple time reporters from a single location marker.

Navigation:

Set Up HCM > Install > Product Specific > Time and Labor Installation > Configurations

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Time and Labor Installation — Configurations page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

TL_Configurations page

Important! This page (TL_INSTL_PUNCH) is the same as the Schedule Settings Page for Global Payroll and Absence Management. The settings that you define on this page are shared between Time and Labor, Global Payroll, and Absence Management.

When employees report time and have accepted the use of location services in the device which they use, and the system has been enable with the Oracle Maps Service for PeopleSoft on the Installation Table, their location displays on a map on the Reporting Locations Page . For situations where a single employee is reporting time at the same location a few feet apart, the installation setting groups the reported time into a single marker on the map.

Field or Control

Description

Employee Location

Specify a radius in feet where multiple time reports in that radius are grouped into a single marker. The default setting will be 500 feet. With these settings, any reported time or elapsed time reported within 500 feet are considered as the same location.

Note: The map display functionality shown in the HCM features requires a separate license to Oracle Maps Cloud Service for PeopleSoft.  For details see the Licensing Information User Manual (LIUM).

Use the Time and Labor Installation page and the related User Preferences tab to allow the administrator to set the preference value for the users.

User Preferences on the mobile devices are made more flexible so that administrators can decide which preferences rolled out to employees on an individual preference basis. The installation settings are made available to all employees using PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface. For more details, refer User Preferences page in Setting Up System Defaults and Loading Dates

Roles and Permissions

Role Name

Permission List

Access

Description

TL Manager Time Fluid

HCCPTLSS2000

Exceptions Page

Reporting Locations Page

Provides access to the manager self service Exceptions page and the Reporting Locations page.

TL Employee Leave Fluid

HCCPTLSS1135

Report Leave

Leave Balances

Provides access to the Base Benefits Leave Balances and to reporting leave for Base Benefits Leave Plan types such as Vacation and Sick.

TL Employee Time Fluid

HCCPTLSS1130

Application Start Page

Report Time

Weekly Time

Payable Time

User Preferences

Provides access to the Time and Labor components.

Note: In addition to the application specific roles, the Tools PeopleSoft User role is required to access PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface components.