Redwood Experience for Costing Results and Adjust Cost for a Person

The Costing Results page has been moved to the Redwood toolkit, giving the page the look of Redwood with the new back end functionality. With this new page, you can quickly view and manage calculated cost results from Payroll, QuickPay, Retroactive Costing, Partial Period Accruals and Costing of Balance Adjustment processes, to include adjusting one or more employee's cost results.

The redesigned Costing Results page offers you the following:

  • View all the payroll cost results generated for an employee.
  • View the cost results grouped together now to show debit and credit together for a specific cost result.
  • Use the Account Type field to view Suspense Account, Default Account or Regular Account.
  • Use the Entry Type field to view Cost Account or Offset Account.
  • Use the Status field to view costing results by these statuses:
    • Adjusted to view all cost adjustments.
    • Needs Attention to view all results costed to suspense or default account.
    • Regular to view all cost result created using payroll costing hierarchy.
  • Use the Export option to export the calculated cost results details into an MS Excel worksheet,
  • View the debit and credit totals.
  • Search for a specific cost result using terms. such as 'tax', or an amount, such as '2,000.00'.
  • You can add additional columns from available columns list to view additional cost result information.
  • Use the Process field to view the calculated cost results of the employee for a previous payroll period.
  • Use the Process Details tab to view details of the process.

You can access the Costing Results page by using any of these navigations:

  • Person Results task>Search for an employee>Costing Results page of the employee.
  • Process Results Summary task>Search for and select the flow you've submitted>View individual records processed by the flow>Actions menu on an individual record>Open Costing Results page of the employee.

Adjust Cost for a Person:

You can access the Adjust Cost for a Person from the Costing Results page. Click on the check box to select the individual cost results that you need to adjust and click on Adjust Cost for a Person. You can select multiple rows to adjust multiple cost results at the same time.

Note: The adjustment rows are grouped together by cost result after entering the adjustment lines.

Take advantage of all the features that come with the new Redwood Cost Results page for a more modern feel.

Steps to Enable

Use these steps to enable the redesigned Redwood VBS Run Results page:

  1. Navigate to the Setup and Maintenance area
  2. Search for the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.
  3. On the Manage Administrator Profile Values page, search for and select the ORA_PAY_PROCESS_RESULT_PAGES_FOR_PERSON_REDWOOD_ENABLED profile option.
  4. In the Profile Values section, click Add.
  5. Select Site to specify that the level the profile value set at Site level.
  6. Click Save and Close.

In order to enable any of the Redwood pages, the central profile option ORA_HCM_VBCS_PWA_ENABLED (Enable VBCS Progressive Web Application User Interfaces across HCM application) needs to be set to Y.