Time Entry Programs
The calculation of employee time and pay rates is complicated. To facilitate the process of calculating employee time, you must set up two versions of each of these time entry programs:
Time Entry MBF Processing Options (P050002A)
Speed Time Entry (P051121)
You create two versions of the P050002A program because the timecards that you create must go through several processes before you can process them through the payroll cycle.
The first version that you create keeps the timecards locked to the time entry system until they are ready to be processed through a payroll cycle. This version must have the Time Entry Lockout processing option on the Processing tab set to 1. You then enter the name of this version in the Time Entry Version processing option for the Speed Time Entry program. When you are accessing or processing timecards that are not yet ready to go through the payroll cycle, you use this first version of P051121.
You then create a second version of the P050002A program that releases the timecards to the payroll system. On this version, you set the Time Entry Lockout processing option on the Processing tab to blank or 0. This enables the timecards to be released from time entry and processed in a payroll cycle. You then create a second version of the P051121 program and enter this second version of the P050002A in the Time Entry Version processing option. You use this second version of the P051121 when you are accessing or processing timecards that are ready to go through the payroll cycle.