Setting Up Activity Types for Employee Schedules

To set up employee schedules, you must use activity types. For employee schedule templates, activity types functionally parallel pay types. Each activity that you enter on a schedule must use an activity type. After creating activity types, you then link them to corresponding pay types. Because of this link, your organization can leverage schedule information to generate timecards. Although you can set up employee schedule templates using only the activity types that are included in your software, you might want to customize the existing data and enter additional activity types that match the pay types that you already have in place. To enter or edit activity types, you access the User Defined Codes program (P0004A) from a menu in the Associate Pay Types with Activity Types program (P073111) and enter information in UDC 01/AC.

After you set up activity types, you need to link the activity types to the corresponding pay types. To perform this linking function, use the Associate Pay Types with Activity Types program.

You can automate linking pay types and activity types by displaying all of the pay types in P073111 and then choosing Create Associations for All Pay Types from the menu. When you perform this function, the system reviews all of the pay types in the F069116 table, creates an activity type for each, and links them. The system saves the linked information in the F073111 table.