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  2. Guidelines for Loading Temporary Assignments

Guidelines for Loading Temporary Assignments

This topic describes restrictions that apply to the loading of temporary assignments using HCM Data Loader.

When you create a temporary assignment in the UI, two data rows are created:

  1. One row is created for the temporary assignment.

  2. One row is added to the base assignment, which is suspended.

Both rows have the same action occurrence ID, which is defined by the application.

When you end the temporary assignment, two further data rows are created:

  1. One row is created to end the temporary assignment.

  2. One row is added to the base assignment, which becomes active on the day following the end date of the temporary assignment.

Both rows have the same action occurrence ID.

However, when the temporary assignment is loaded using HDL, the two rows don't share the same action occurence ID. If you end a temporary assignment from the employment pages on an assignment row which was created using HDL, the source assignment won't be automatically activated as the two assignments don't share the same action occurence ID.

The following example shows how to load a temporary assignment. Both the Employment Terms and Assignment components are identified by user keys.

METADATA|WorkTerms|ActionCode|AssignmentNumber|AssignmentStatusTypeCode|AssignmentType|BusinessUnitShortCode|DateStart|EffectiveEndDate|EffectiveLatestChange|EffectiveSequence|EffectiveStartDate|LegalEmployerName|PersonNumber|PrimaryWorkTermsFlag|WorkerType
MERGE|WorkTerms|TEMP_ASG|ETTESTASSG03_59|SUSPEND_PROCESS|ET|ZHRX-AE-Starter-BU|2016/01/01|4712/12/31|Y|1|2017/08/01|CRFL RRF LE 2T|TESTASSG03_59|Y|E
MERGE|WorkTerms|TEMP_ASG|ETTESTASSG03_59-2|ACTIVE_PROCESS|ET|ZHRX-AE-Starter-BU|2016/01/01|4712/12/31|Y|1|2017/08/01|CRFL RRF LE 2T|TESTASSG03_59|N|E
METADATA|Assignment|ActionCode|AssignmentNumber|AssignmentStatusTypeCode|AssignmentType|BusinessUnitShortCode|EffectiveEndDate|EffectiveLatestChange|EffectiveSequence|EffectiveStartDate|Frequency|LegalEmployerName|PersonNumber|PrimaryAssignmentFlag|WorkTermsNumber|WorkerType
MERGE|Assignment|TEMP_ASG|ETESTASSG03_59|SUSPEND_PROCESS|E|ZHRX-AE-Starter-BU|4712/12/31|Y|1|2017/08/01|W|CRFL RRF LE 2T|TESTASSG03_59|Y|ETTESTASSG03_59|E
MERGE|Assignment|TEMP_ASG|ETESTASSG03_59-2|ACTIVE_PROCESS|E|ZHRX-AE-Starter-BU|4712/12/31|Y|1|2017/08/01|W|CRFL RRF LE 2T|TESTASSG03_59|N||ETTESTASSG03_59-2|E