Repeating Time Periods

Many organizational tasks need continually generated time periods, such as a weekly period that starts every Sunday. You can't edit delivered periods. After saving your own periods, you can edit only the name and description.

You configure these periods using the Repeating Time Periods task in the Setup and Maintenance work area. The task is part of the Workforce Deployment offering, Time and Labor functional area. Saving the configuration generates periods for 10 years before and after the current date.

Period Usages

Here are descriptions of the repeating period usages. It also identifies the pages where the usage decides which configured repeating periods the period drop-down lists include.

Usage	Description	Page Where the Usage Filters Period Choices
Time cards	How often people need to submit their time card. When you configure a time processing profile, you select a repeating time period as the time card period. All time card layouts support weekly and 2-week repeating periods. The responsive layout also supports a monthly repeating period.	Worker Time Processing Profiles
Approvals	The date range when approvers can approve a submitted time card, including monthly. When you configure a time consumer set, you select a repeating time period as the approval period.	Time Consumer Sets
Accrual Processing	The interval when people accrue time, such as every 2 weeks within an annual accrual term. Use these periods when you create absence plans.	Manage Absence Plans
Overtime	The date range used to calculate overtime. A person's overtime period can match or differ from the time card period. For example, your people report time using time cards with a weekly period that starts on Saturdays. You calculate their overtime using a weekly overtime period that starts on Mondays.	Worker Time Processing Profiles
Balances	The date range used to calculate time balances. For example, add 6 hours to a vacation balance every pay period.	Time Balance Dimensions