Time Balance Dimensions

To specify the level and time period to use when summarizing time for people's balances, you create time balance dimensions.

Use the Balance Dimensions task in the Setup and Maintenance work area. The task is part of the Workforce Deployment offering, Time and Labor functional area. You can also use this task to view bundled balance dimensions.

Summary Levels

Assignment summarizes them by the person's assignment.
Person summarizes them across all the person's assignments.

Period Types

Absence accrual time period: The time period set in the absence accrual calculation.
Profile overtime period: The repeating period with the Overtime usage associated with the person's assignment. Otherwise, the overtime repeating period selected on the person's worker time processing profile. The profile selection is optional, so there's no guarantee that the profile provides this period.
Repeating time period: The repeating time period with the Balances usage selected.

Dimension Level and Period Type Working Together

Here are examples of how the dimension level and period type work together:

A balance dimension summarizes time for people across all their assignments using the overtime period set in time processing profiles.
Another balance dimension summarizes time for people by each of their assignments using a specified repeating time period with the Balances usage.

Dimension Suffix

Saving the newly created dimension automatically generates a dimension suffix based on the dimension name, grouping, and time period values. This dimension suffix forms part of the automatically generated definition name of the balance definition. For example, you create a time balance dimension with this configuration:

Field	Example Configuration Value
Name	`Reg Hrs by Person`
Dimension Level	Person
Period Type	Repeating Period
Time Period	Biweekly Starting Sunday

The application-generated suffix, which forms part of the database item name, is _REG_HRS_BY_PERSON_PER_RP.