Data You Can Include When Generating Time Cards

You can generate time cards that contain entries created from peoples' schedule hours. These hours come from the published WFM schedule or the work schedules on employment records.

When you include schedule hours, you also need to add all the time attributes and attributes values required by the time consumers. For example, if the time consumer is Payroll, you add the Payroll Time Type attribute and Regular attribute value. The Generate Time Cards process uses these time attributes and attribute values to create the relevant time entries.

Note: The Generate Time Cards process ignores any default attributes values that are part of the corresponding time card field configuration. It uses only the attribute values that you provide here.

The generated time cards don't deduct time not worked from the total shift time. For example, if the shift is 9 hours and includes 1 hour of time not worked, the generated time card entry has 9 hours. You can create a time calculation rule to deduct the time not worked from calculated time first. Then transfer time data to the relevant time consumers.

You can't assign unit-based time attributes, such as allowances, to scheduled shifts. To generate time entries with unit-based time attributes, use the Generate Time Entries process. Or, you can create a time calculation rule to add them to the appropriate time cards.

You can also generate empty time cards.