Considerations for Creating Time Consumer Sets
You create time consumer sets using the Time Consumer Set task in the Setup and Maintenance work area. The task is part of the Workforce Deployment offering, Time and Labor functional area.
Time Consumer
Start by selecting the relevant time data consumers.
- Global Payroll, to pay people
- Project Costing, to bill customers for time worked on projects
- Project Execution Management offering of Project Portfolio Management, to figure out staffing for projects
Enable Informational Workflow for Bulk Time Card Submission
Specify whether to notify everyone affected across the selected time consumers when managers generate or submit and approve bunches of time data at one time. You might want to select No if you regularly submit and approve many time cards at one time.
Time Category
Select the time category that identifies the time data to transfer to the time consumer. For example, payroll doesn't want time data with project attributes, so you select a time category that identifies only payroll-related data. Project execution management automatically uses the All Absence Entries category.
Validate on Time Card Actions
You specify the time card actions that start consumer validations for the time data identified by the selected time category.
- Submit Only: This default selection validates relevant time data when someone clicks Next on classic time cards or Submit on responsive time cards. Validation doesn't run when they click Save.
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Submit and Save: This selection validates relevant time data when someone clicks and of these actions on a time card: Save, Save and Close, Next, or Submit.
For Project Costing, we recommend that you select this option. That way people working on time cards know immediately if they're saving time entries to closed projects.
Required Time Card Status
This option is for reporting purposes.
- Select Yes to report on missing time cards for the people linked to this consumer set, and who regularly submit them.
- Select No if the consumer set is for groups of people who submit time cards sporadically, such as to report absences, training, and other exceptions.