Worker Time Processing Profile
ConceptintermediateThe object that links a repeating time period, a time consumer set, an HCM group and optionally rule sets, deciding how reported time is validated, calculated and processed for a population.
What people get wrong
The confusions are the difficulty. Each one is a belief that sounds right and is not.
- That priority 1 is the lowest priority. Oracle states the highest priority is 1.
- That a time consumer set can be edited after a profile uses it. It cannot.
Recall it
Name everything a Worker Time Processing Profile links, and say which link becomes uneditable.
A repeating time period, a time consumer set, an HCM group, and optionally time calculation and entry rule sets. The time consumer set becomes uneditable once a profile uses it.
Memory hook: Period, Consumer, Group, Rules. The one that locks is the Consumer.
Rests on OTL-PROCPROFILE-030, OTL-CONSUMER-052.
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.
- Repeating Time Periods and What They Are Offered OnA period is not just a date range. Its usage decides which configuring pages can select it, and a period set up for the wrong usage is missing rather than broken.
- Time Consumer SetsHow Time and Labor decides which downstream systems receive time, which validations they contribute, and why the set locks once a profile uses it.
Related
- Terminology glossary — what a term means, and what people get wrong when they use it