Triggers

Triggers are used to detect online changes to data that should result in some type of system action.

Global Payroll provides three types of triggers:

• Iterative: Tells the system to process (or reprocess) an employee in the current period.

• Segmentation: Tells the system to segment a period or element.

• Retro: Tells the system to perform retroactive processing.

In PeopleSoft Global Payroll for United States, an iterative trigger must be defined for each table containing retroactive or segmentation triggers.

Two segmentation events are delivered with PeopleSoft Global Payroll for United States. One is for full segmentation and the other is for element segmentation.

Two retroactive events are delivered with PeopleSoft Global Payroll for United States. One is for corrective retro processing and the other is for forwarding retro processing.

In addition, PeopleSoft Global Payroll for United States uses mass trigger functionality. This functionality enables you to generate employee payroll triggers based on changes to setup tables. Mass triggers are specified for a certain record on a certain component. A SQL object defines the population affected by the setup table change. After the affected employees are determined, you can review the trigger details before accepting the changes.

PeopleSoft Global Payroll for United States delivers mass triggers for benefit-related tables.