How Time Entry Profile Components Work Together

A time entry profile specifies how linked individuals report, review, and submit time using time cards, calendar, and Web Clock. It also specifies how their managers report, review, and submit time cards on behalf of individuals.

You create these profiles using the Worker Time Entry Profiles task in the Setup and Maintenance work area. It's part of the Workforce Deployment offering, Time and Labor functional area.

Here's how the profile components work together.

Layout Sets

A layout set is a collection of layouts that decide the appearance of time card, calendar, Web Clock, and shift pages. It also decides the time entry identifies used in change audits. For example, one layout set has layouts for people who have the same payroll characteristics. Another layout set has layouts for people who have the same project costing characteristics. And a third layout set has layouts for people who have the same payroll and project costing characteristics.

Time Attestation Sets

A time attestation set is a collection of questionnaires and their initiating events and time categories. The attestation set lets you gather more information about reported time to make sure that people are complying with time policies and various regulations. For example, you can have people who work when they aren't scheduled attest that they obtained authorization beforehand.

Groups

An HCM group identifies people who share the same characteristics. All group members and their managers inherit the layouts in the layout set of their assigned time entry profile. They also inherit the time attestation set, if selected. You can assign each HCM group to only one time entry profile at a time.