Configure Dependent Fields for Labor Costing Overrides

You can let people enter payroll cost information by creating dependent fields for the independent Payroll Time Type time attribute.

Set up cost fields as dependent time card fields of the related independent Payroll Time Type time attribute. Use the Time Entry Layout Components task in the Time and Labor functional area.

Before you start

Prepare cost segment time attributes for use in time card fields using this basic process:
  1. Create payroll value sets using the Payroll Value Sets task.
  2. Set up the cost allocation key flexfield using the Cost Allocation Key Flexfield task.
  3. Set up the cost allocation key flexfield usage to be available at the element entry level.
  4. Generate the costing time attributes using the Generate Data Dictionary Time Attributes task.

Here's what to do

  1. Create or edit an independent time card field that has the Payroll Time Type time attribute.
  2. Create the dependent field.
    • Be sure to set the independent attribute to Payroll Time Type.
    • Remember, your availability selection decides what display options people have when they configure time layouts. Here's the appropriate availability selection for legislative data groups that do and don't share costing structures.
      Shared by LDGs Availability Setting
      Yes You can make the costing structure available to all independent attribute values.
      No You must create multiple dependent fields and specify the independent attribute values for each dependent field.
  3. Add the data sources and filters to the field selected in the General Properties section.
    1. Select the unfiltered data source and filtered data source for the cost attribute. Typically, the most appropriate source is the first value in the list.
    2. Add the filter variables and input attributes for the filtered data source.
  4. Add the dependent costing fields to the appropriate layouts in the layout set. The availability setting that you selected when you create the dependent field decides your display options in time card layouts.