Understanding Activity Type Linking

Employee schedules are composed of activities that specify the time, location, and other aspects about how an employee anticipates spending time. Each activity in an employee schedule must have an activity type.

The system uses activity types to specify what the activity represents. Examples of activity types include:

• Regular work time

• Vacation time

• Sick time

Administrators can generate timecards from an employee schedule. When generating timecards from an employee schedule, the activity type of each activity is used to determine the pay type of the corresponding timecard.

Before timecards can be generated, the link between each activity type used in an employee schedule and its related pay type must be set up. Use the Associate Pay Types with Activity Types program (P073111) link pay types to activity types.

Because you can use employee schedules to generate timecards, your system uses activity types for employee scheduling that link to pay types. You can add activity types in UDC 01/AC. You can use the Associate Pay Types with Activity Types program (P073111) to link individual pay types to activity types. Alternately, you can create activity types and then automatically link them to each pay type in the F069116 table. You use the Create Associations for All Pay Types menu option to automate the assignment.