Basic Time Entry Layout Component Configuration Process

You use time entry layout components on classic calendars, classic and responsive time cards shift dialog boxes, and Web Clock, and enhanced time cards.

The basic process for creating single-attribute and multiattribute time cards fields has four main steps and uses the Time Entry Layout Components task in the Setup and Maintenance work area. It's part of the Workforce Deployment offering, Time and Labor functional area.

Before you start

Make sure that the payroll and absence time attributes exist in the data dictionary, and any custom time attributes.

Here's what to do

1. From the Time Entry Layout component page, create the time card field.
2. Complete the Field Definition page. If you've the unified time entry experience enabled, this is the only page available.
   1. Enter the general properties.
   2. Configure the time attributes, data sources, and filters for the filtered data source, as appropriate. For multiattribute fields, you do this when you add a time attribute to the attributes definition table.
   3. Configure the reported time options for workers, line managers, and time and labor managers. This section is available only if you've the unified time entry experience enabled.
      • All options apply only where the field is used to report time. They're ignored where the field is used to show calculated time and on other, nonreported time pages.
      • Any Filtered Data Source for Time Entry selection that you make for line managers and time and labor managers overrides the selection in the Time Attribute and Data Source section. You only need to do this when managers need a less granular filter than workers.
   4. Add and configure each row in the attributes definition table. This step doesn't apply to single-attribute fields.
   5. Optionally, configure a value to default for the field when it appears on classic and responsive time cards. The enhanced time card ignores the default value.
   6. Configure the field-level display properties.

   If you've the nonunified time entry experience enabled, continue to the next step.

3. Optionally complete the Dependent Field Definition page. This step is available only if the independent time attribute you selected on the previous page has dependent attributes defined in the data dictionary.
   1. Create the dependent field. Each dependent field that you create appears as a row in the table on the Dependent Field Definition page.
   2. Optionally, edit the dependent field properties, as appropriate.
   3. Select the data sources for the dependent time attribute and add filters for the filtered data source, as appropriate.
   4. Optionally, configure a default value for the dependent field.
   5. Configure the field-level display properties for the dependent field.

   You can also create all dependent fields first, step 1, then select a field in the table and complete steps 2 through 5. You keep selecting a field and completing steps 2 through 5 until you completely configure all the dependent fields.

4. Complete the Review page.
   On this page of the guided process, you review and save your definition details. If any details aren't right, you can go back and fix them before you save the component.