Common Elements Used in Managing Calendars

Field or Control	Description
Calendar	Identifies which payees to process and the run type and pay period. It can include instructions for generation control, excluding certain elements from processing, overriding supporting elements, and providing other information.
Calendar Group	When you start a payroll or absence process, you must enter the calendar group ID that identifies the calendar or set of calendars to process, or in the case of off-cycle runs, the set of off-cycle groups to process. You can process multiple calendars or off-cycle groups simultaneously. Calendar groups are keyed by country, so you can include multiple calendars or off-cycle groups for the same country in a single calendar group.
Period	Defines the pay period and frequency for your processing run. You attach a pay period to a pay run by linking it to a calendar. Like run types, pay periods are reusable.
Run Type	A user-defined method of identifying a payroll or absence run. Common run types are regular, bonus, overtime, and advance pay. The run type identifies the process list to use, whether to process retroactive triggers, and information needed when processing data from Time and Labor or the Manage Variable Compensation application of HR. It's also used in generation control, historical rules, and retroactive matching processes. You attach a run type to a pay run process by linking it to a calendar. Because you define the run type information outside the calendar, you can link the same run type to multiple calendars. For example, if a weekly and a monthly pay group use the same process list, you might set up one run type and link it to multiple calendars. The effective date enables you to switch process lists or retroactive trigger processing actions and yet reproduce a retroactive calculation with old settings.