Default Action Parameters for Payroll Extracts

Payroll process configuration groups provide sets of processing or action parameters, primarily related to logging and performance. Many delivered extracts, especially high-volume payroll extracts, include default, best-practice process configuration settings to optimize report performance.

Run the delivered payroll extracts directly without configuring some of the process configuration parameters for the report. For example, several high-volume extracts like the Payroll Activity Report has the process configuration parameter, Multithreaded XML Generation for Extracts (ORA_MULTITHREADED_XML) set to Y by default. You don't have to set the process configuration parameter either at the time of report submission or on the default process configuration group.

The best-practice process configuration settings are delivered as default values for each payroll extract. This table lists the action parameters that the delivered extracts include by default.

Parameter	Parameter Name	Default Value	Reports
Name of Extract Structure Block	EXTRACT_STRUCTURE_BLOCK	Global Payroll Register Extract Structure Block	Payroll Register Report Payroll Register Report for the Latest Process
Use Sub-set of Archive Extract Structure For Reports	USE_EXTRACT_STRUCTURE	Y	Payroll Register Report Payroll Register Report for the Latest Process
Suppression of Null Values	WRITE_NULL_VALUES	N	Payroll Activity Report Payroll Activity Report for the Latest Process Periodic Payroll Activity Report Statutory Deduction Register Statutory Deduction Register for the Latest Process Periodic Statutory Deduction Register Payroll Costing Results
Multithreaded XML Generation for Extracts	ORA_MULTITHREADED_XML	Y	Payroll Activity Report Payroll Activity Report for the Latest Process Periodic Payroll Activity Report Statutory Deduction Register Statutory Deduction Register for the Latest Process Periodic Statutory Deduction Register Payroll Costing Results
Skip BI server for online payslip	ORA_PAYSLIP_SKIP_BI_SERVER	Y	Payslip

The delivered extracts use these default settings only if you haven't used your own values for these process configuration parameters.

Consider the following while using the action parameters for the delivered payroll extracts:

• It is recommended that you use the default settings defined for the extract and don't set your own values for these parameters. Therefore, if you have configured an enterprise-level process configuration group with a different value for any of these parameters, delete them from the group and override them only on the extracts that need the override, individually.

• If you have already copied the delivered extracts, you still need to use the process configuration group parameter on the report, unless you make a new copy of the delivered extract that now includes these default settings.

• For user-defined extracts, you can set your own default settings as hidden extract and flow parameters, just like the delivered extracts. Alternatively or additionally, you could add a process configuration group parameter on the report to allow a different setting on each report submission.

• Change the process configuration parameter values in the default process configuration group only if you're using the same values across payroll extracts, including those extracts that have their own default settings.