- Implementing Time and Labor
- Create the Units-Based Meals Taken Element for Time Entries
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.
Before you start
Confirm that the Meal rate definition exists or create it using the Rate Definitions task in the Payroll Calculations work area.Here's what to do
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Create the time card element. Use the Elements task in the Setup and Maintenance
work area. The task is part of the Workforce Deployment offering, Elements and
Formula functional area.
- On the Elements page, click the Create icon.
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On the Create Element dialog box, complete the fields, as shown here.
Field Value Legislative Data Group FR LDG Primary Classification Earnings Category Time Card - Click Continue.
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Configure the element.
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On the Create Element: Basic Information page, complete the fields, as shown here.
Field Value Name Meals Taken Reporting Name Meals Taken Description Units-based nonrecurring earnings element with an associated pay rate Effective Date January 1, 1951 - To accept the remaining default values, click Next.
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On the Create Element: Additional Details page, complete the fields, as shown here.
Field Value What is the calculation rule? Meals Taken Does this element have a default rate definition? Yes Rate Name Meal Rate If you don't specify a default rate, the element uses the rate from the salary record.
Effective Date January 1, 1951 - Click Next.
- On the Create Element: Review page, review the element configuration to ensure that everything is correct.
- Click Submit.
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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.
- On the Elements page, search for the element that you just created.
- Click the related element name.
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On the element summary page, complete these steps:
- 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 the element name and append the term Open, for example Meals Taken Earnings Calculator Open.
- Click Submit.
- Click Done.
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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.
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