Understanding Processing Elements

Absence Management enables you to define absence take and absence entitlement processes. To set up processing:

1. Create sections, which are logical groups of elements that are resolved during an absence run.

2. Add the sections to a process list that identifies the sequence and conditions under which each section of elements is resolved.

   You can create any number of process lists.

3. Attach each process list to a calendar, by associating the process list with a run type.

4. Schedule the calendars for processing.

To run an absence process, run the process that you defined. The Process List Manager program starts at the top of the process list and, for each payee, works with the PIN Manager to resolve elements sequentially in each process list section. The system creates a set of files and tables to hold the processing results.