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.

To configure these periods, go to Setup and Maintenance > Workforce Deployment > Time and Labor > Repeating Time Periods.

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 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