Repeating Time Periods for Time Processing

Time cards, approval workflows, overtime periods, and time balances need continually generated time periods, such as a weekly period that starts every Sunday. You can use delivered repeating periods or create your own.

Go to Setup and Maintenance > Workforce Deployment > Time and Labor > Repeating Periods.

Time processing uses repeating periods with these usages:

Usage	Description	Where Used
Approvals	The date range when approvers can approve a submitted time card.	Approval lists in time consumer sets
Time cards	How often people need to submit their time card. All time card layouts support weekly, 2-week, and monthly repeating time card periods.	Time Card Period list in worker time processing profiles
Overtime	The date range used to calculate overtime. A person's overtime period can match or differ from the selected time card period. For example, workers report time using weekly time card periods that start on Saturdays. Their overtime is calculated using a weekly overtime period that starts on Mondays.	Overtime Period list in worker time processing profiles
Balances	The date range used to calculate time balances. For example, add 6 hours to a compensatory time balance every pay period.	Repeating Time Period > Time Period list in time balance dimensions

You can check the repeating period logic by providing a sample start date and preview start and end dates. Here are three examples:

Period	Weekly	Monthly	Semimonthly
Length	Biweekly	Calendar month	NA
Period generation logic	Generates periods every 14 days from the sample start date. All periods start on the same day of the week.	Generates periods from a specified day in 1 month up to that day in the following month.	Generates periods using a pattern: The first period starts on the numeric day of the pattern starting date and lasts for 15 days. The second period starts the day after the first period ends. It lasts through the day before the numeric day of the pattern starting date in the next month.
Sample start date	05/01/28	05/04/28	05/04/28
Preview start date	01/01/28	01/01/28	05/01/28
Preview end date	05/31/28	07/31/28	07/31/28
Generated sample periods	01/10/23 to 01/23/12 01/24/12 to 02/06/12 02/07/12 to 02/20/12 02/21/12 to 03/05/12 03/06/12 to 03/19/12 03/20/12 to 04/02/12 04/03/12 to 04/16/12 04/17/12 to 04/30/12 05/01/12 to 05/14/12 05/15/12 to 05/28/12	01/04/12 to 02/03/12 02/04/12 to 03/03/12 03/04/12 to 04/03/12 04/04/12 to 05/03/12 05/04/12 to 06/03/12 06/04/12 to 07/03/12	05/05/12 to 05/18/12 05/19/12 to 06/03/12 06/04/12 to 06/18/12 06/19/12 to 07/03/12 07/04/12 to 07/18/12

Delivered time consumer sets and time processing profiles use delivered repeating periods. You can also use the delivered periods in your time processing configurations.

Delivered Period	Usages	Period Type	Period Length
Biweekly Starting Monday	Time Card Approval	Weekly	Biweekly
Payroll Weekly Starting Monday Projects and Payroll Weekly Starting Monday Projects Weekly Starting Monday Weekly Starting Sunday	Time Card Approval	Weekly	1 week
Daily	Balances	Daily	1 day