Create the Units-Based Meals Taken Element for Time Entries
You're creating a units-based meals taken time card element with an associated flat rate from payroll.
- Confirm that the Meal rate definition exists or create it using the Rate Definitions task in the Payroll Calculations work area.
- Go to .
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Create the time card element.
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Configure the element.
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Configure the element eligibility.
- On the Element Summary: Meals Taken page, in the Elements Overview section, select Element Eligibility.
- On the toolbar Actions menu, select Create Element Eligibility.
- In the General Information section, Element Eligibility Name field, enter Meals Taken Open. Appending Open is a standard method to easily identify that no eligibility criteria constrains the people the element applies to. Time and labor administrators and managers typically constrain eligibility using HCM groups and worker time entry and processing setup profiles.
- Click Submit.
- Click Done.
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Configure element eligibility for each of the related elements, which share the
same name as this element and have suffixes. Suffixes include Earnings Calculator,
Earnings Distributor, Earnings Results, Retro, and Retro Results.
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Generate the time attributes in the data dictionary. Use the Generate Data
Dictionary task in the Setup and Maintenance work area. The task is part of the
Workforce Deployment offering, Time and Labor functional area.
- On the Generate Data Dictionary Time Attributes page, in the Legislative Data Group field, select US LDG.
- Click Submit.
- On the Confirmation dialog box, click OK.