Example of Loading Retropay for Late Hires Event Groups

Let's consider an example of a late hire employee. The event group identifies the late hired employee.

To enable retropay for late hires, create a new Event Group for their legislative data group.

Note: Even if you are currently using the Late Hire functionality, you don't need to create a new Event Group.

Use this reference data as template to update your new event group:

METADATA|EventGroup|EventGroupCode|EventGroupName|EventGroupType|LegislativeDataGroupName
METADATA|DateTrackedEvent|ColumnName|UpdateType|EventGroupCode|DatedObjectName|LegislativeDataGroupName
MERGE|EventGroup|<Event_Group_Code>|<Event_Group_Name>|A|<Legislative Data Group Name>
MERGE|DateTrackedEvent||DT_INSERT|<Event_Group_Code>|oracle.apps.hcm.payrolls.registrations.protectedModel.entity.PayrollUsageDEO|<Legislative Data Group Name>

Update your Event Group in the reference data using these details:

  • Replace <Event_Group_Code> with event group code, such as MY_EVENT_GROUP
  • Replace <Event_Group_Name> with event group name, such as My_Event_Group
  • Replace <Legislative Data Group Name> with LDG Name, such as US Legislative Data group
  • Zip the modified template as EventGroup.zip.