Examples of Start Date Changes When Assignment Changes Exist

Future Assignment Changes Don't Exist

Vijay Singh is hired on 1-Jan-2010. He has no future assignment changes.

Start Date	Changed Start Date	Changed Work Relationship Start Date	Changed Assignment Start Date	Outcome
1-Jan-2010	1-Jan-2009	1-Jan-2009	1-Jan-2009	When you change the start date to an earlier date, the start date changes for the employment (work relationship and assignment) and person records.
1-Jan-2010	1-Jan-2011	1-Jan-2011	1-Jan-2011	When you change the start date to a future date, the start date changes for the employment (work relationship and assignment) and person records.

Future Assignment Changes Exist

Vijay Singh is hired on 1-Jan-2010 and has a future assignment change on 1-Jan-2011. Assignment changes include actions such as promotion, adding an assignment, and adding a temporary assignment.

Start Date	Assignment Change	Changed Start Date	Changed Work Relationship Start Date	Changed Assignment Start Date	Outcome
1-Jan-2010	1-Jan-2011	1-Jan-2009	1-Jan-2009	1-Jan-2009	When you change the start date to an earlier date, the start date changes for the employment (work relationship and assignment) and person records.
1-Jan-2010	1-Jan-2011	1-Jan-2012 Note: This change isn't possible.	Not applicable	Not applicable	You can't change the start date to a date that's later than the date of the first assignment change. You need to delete the assignment change first.

Multiple Assignment Changes Exist on the Start Date

Vijay Singh is hired on 1-Jan-2010 and an assignment change was done for him on the same date.

Start Date	Assignment Change Date	Work Relationship Start Date	Assignment Start Date	Outcome
1-Jan-2010	1-Jan-2010	1-Jan-2010	1-Jan-2010	If there are multiple assignment changes on the start date, you can't change the start date. You need to remove the assignment change to change the start date.

Invalid Supervisor or Direct Reports Exist on Start Date

If the supervisors, such as line manager, project manager, and so on or any of the direct reports is invalid as of the new selected start date, then the start date change won't be allowed.

Additional Assignments Exist on the Start Date

Vijay Singh has an additional assignment added for him on 1-Feb-2010.

Start Date	Changed Start Date	Changed Work Relationship Start Date	Changed Assignment Start Date	Outcome
1-Jan-2010 (original assignment)	1-Mar-2010	1-Mar-2010	Not applicable 1-Feb-2010 (additional assignment)	You can't change the start date to a date that's after the date on which the second assignment was created.
1-Jan-2010 (original assignment)	15-Jan-2010	15-Jan-2010	15-Jan-2010 1-Feb-2010 (additional assignment)	When you change the start date to a future date, the start date changes for the employment records (work relationship and assignment) that were created during hire.
1-Jan-2010 (original assignment)	1-Dec-2009	1-Dec-2009	1-Dec-2009 1-Feb-2010 (additional assignment)	When you change the start date to an earlier date, the start date changes for the employment (work relationship and assignment) and person records.

Start Date

Changed Start Date

Changed Work Relationship Start Date

Changed Assignment Start Date

Outcome

1-Jan-2010

(original assignment)

1-Mar-2010

Not applicable

1-Feb-2010

(additional assignment)

You can't change the start date to a date that's after the date on which the second assignment was created.

1-Jan-2010

(original assignment)

15-Jan-2010

1-Feb-2010

(additional assignment)

When you change the start date to a future date, the start date changes for the employment records (work relationship and assignment) that were created during hire.

1-Jan-2010

(original assignment)

1-Dec-2009

1-Feb-2010

(additional assignment)

When you change the start date to an earlier date, the start date changes for the employment (work relationship and assignment) and person records.

Vijay Singh has an additional assignment added for him on the same date as the start date.

Start Date	Changed Start Date	Changed Work Relationship Start Date	Changed Assignment Start Date	Outcome
1-Jan-2010 (original primary assignment) 1-Jan-2010 (additional nonprimary assignment)	1-Mar-2010	1-Mar-2010	Not applicable	You can't change the start date to a date that's after the date on which the second assignment was created. In this case, since the assignment was created on the hire date, the start date can't be moved in future.
1-Jan-2010 (original primary assignment) 1-Jan-2010 (additional nonprimary assignment)	1-Dec-2009	1-Dec-2009	1-Dec-2009 (original primary assignment) No change (additional nonprimary assignment)	When you change the start date to an earlier date, the start date changes only for the primary assignment and the date of the newly added assignment remains the same. If the newly added assignment is added as primary, this causes multiple assignment changes on the same date in the original assignment. You can't change the hire date if there are multiple assignment changes on the start date.

Start Date

Changed Start Date

Changed Work Relationship Start Date

Changed Assignment Start Date

Outcome

1-Jan-2010

(original primary assignment)

1-Jan-2010

(additional nonprimary assignment)

1-Mar-2010

Not applicable

You can't change the start date to a date that's after the date on which the second assignment was created. In this case, since the assignment was created on the hire date, the start date can't be moved in future.

1-Jan-2010

(original primary assignment)

1-Jan-2010

(additional nonprimary assignment)

1-Dec-2009

(original primary assignment)

No change

(additional nonprimary assignment)

When you change the start date to an earlier date, the start date changes only for the primary assignment and the date of the newly added assignment remains the same. If the newly added assignment is added as primary, this causes multiple assignment changes on the same date in the original assignment. You can't change the hire date if there are multiple assignment changes on the start date.