Configure Payroll Time Approval Rules to Use Payroll Values

This example has line managers reviewing and approving any time cards with overtime hours. And it automatically approves any time cards with only regular hours.

1. Go to Setup and Maintenance > Tasks panel Search > Manage Task Configurations for Human Capital Management.
2. For the TimecardApproval workflow task, TimeEntryApprovalRuleSet, click the Assignees tab.
3. Create the rule to manually approve overtime.
   1. Create this IF expression:

      ApprovalTimeRecordGroup.measure more than 0 and ( ApprovalTimeRecordGroup.attributeChar5 is "Overtime" )

   2. Complete the THEN fields, as shown here.

      THEN Field	Value
      List Builder	Supervisory
      Response Type	Required This response type makes the notification actionable, instead of informational.
      Number of levels	1
      Starting Participant	HierarchyBuilder.getManager("supervisory", Task.payload.process.Requester,-1,null,null)
      Top Participant	HierarchyBuilder.getManager("supervisory", Task.payload.process.Requester,-1,null,null)
      Auto Action Enabled	False
      Auto Action	null
      Rule Name	ManApproveOT

4. Create the rule to automatically approve time cards with only regular hours.
   1. Create this IF expression:

      ApprovalTimeRecordGroup.attributeChar5 isn't "Overtime"

   2. Complete the THEN fields, as shown here.

      THEN Field	Value
      List Builder	Supervisory
      Response Type	Required
      Number of levels	1
      Starting Participant	HierarchyBuilder.getManager("supervisory", Task.payload.process.Requester,-1,null,null)
      Top Participant	HierarchyBuilder.getManager("supervisory", Task.payload.process.Requester,-1,null,null)
      Auto Action Enabled	True
      Auto Action	"APPROVE"
      Rule Name	AutoApproveReg