HCM group
ConceptintermediateThe set of workers a profile applies to, bounded by from and to dates, and refreshed by a membership evaluation rather than live.
What people get wrong
The confusions are the difficulty. Each one is a belief that sounds right and is not.
- That group membership is live. It is refreshed by a process.
Recall it
What is the one thing an HCM group cannot do in relation to two profiles of the same type?
It cannot be assigned to both for an overlapping period. Many groups may share one profile, but a group belongs to at most one profile of a given type at a time.
Memory hook: One group, one profile, one period.
Rests on OTL-ENTRYPROFILE-022.
Taught in
- The Worker Time Processing ProfileHow one profile controls validation, calculation and processing for a whole population of workers, and the three constraints that catch most configuration mistakes.
- The Worker Time Entry ProfileThe profile that decides what a time card looks like and who may create, review, edit and submit it — and the overlap rule that stops one group having two entry profiles at once.
Related
- Terminology glossary — what a term means, and what people get wrong when they use it