How Payroll Interface Reports are Processed

Use the Submit a Flow or Submit Extracts task to submit the extract process for your payroll interface report after you create an extract definition.

Settings That Affect Report Output

When you submit a payroll interface report, the extract process captures values for all employees that match the specified criteria. This table describes the flow submission parameters that you complete.

Parameter	Purpose
Legislative Data Group	Name of partition that's used for payroll information.
Payroll Flow	Name that you assign when you run the process. After you submit the process, use this name to search and monitor for its status.
Effective Date	First date on which to retrieve effective records.
Payroll Name	Name of the payroll definition from which to extract data.
Payroll Period	Name of the payroll time period for the payroll you're calculating, which determines other dates for processing.
Changes Only	This parameter is optional. Indicator that determines whether to extract only changed records. If you don't select this parameter, the process extracts all records matching the criteria.
Process Configuration Group	This parameter is optional. Name of a configuration group that determines performance parameters, such as logging, chunk size, and number of threads. Overrides the default process configuration group.

How Initial and Subsequent Reports Are Processed

Your payroll provider might require that you provide all the records defined in the extract each period, or only new or changed data. The flow submission parameter, Changes Only, controls the scope of the extract. When this parameter is set to Yes, the application compares the extracted employee data with the values from the previous payroll period. If changes are found, the data output file contains only the updated records for each employee. If no changes are found, the data output file contains no data.