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Oracle Time & Labor Includes:-

1. Introduction
2. Element Description
3. Time Structure
4. Time Management Policies
5. Time Period
6. Preferences
7. The Timekeeper
8. Time Validation
9. Self Service
10. Reports

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 Introduction
Oracle Time & Labor meets time entry requirements for employee and
contractors for the entire e-business suite. Workers enter their own time,
which can be subject to an approval process according to specific business
rules. The time entry is then made available for retrieval by any of the
applications that require this data. So there is a single point of entry for use of
multiple applications.

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 Introduction
Oracle Time & Labor is an ebusiness suite solution to meet the requirements of:

Time Capture Time Validation

Time Approval Time Management

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 RESPONSIBILITIES TO BE ADDED FOR OTL

RESPONSIBILITY MENU APPLICATION REQUEST

GROUP

OTL Global OTL Time and Labor Global OTL

ADMINISTRATOR Administrator Engine Reports &
Processes

OTL_APPLICATIO Global OTL Application Time and Labor Global OTL

N_DEVELOPER Developer Engine Reports &
Processes

OTL_SUPER_ OTL Timekeeper(1) Time and Labor Global OTL

TIMEKEEPER Engine Reports &
Processes

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 Roster Policy and Set Up
Time structure includes creation of holiday calendar, shifts, work plan and
rotation plan.
Policies are the extra pay that employees or groups of employees are
eligible to get for working in unfavorable or hazardous conditions.
Finally time structure and policies are attached with employees.

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 Roster Policy and Set Up

Weekly Roster Shift Pattern

Shifts
(Work Plan) (Rotation Plan)

Over Time Policies

(Earning Policy)
Employee
Extra Pay Policies (Assignment)
(Premium Eligibility Policy)

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 Element Description for OTL
Elements are essential compensation and benefit components that
represent earning types, benefits such as pension plans, absences,
expense reimbursements, and even tangible items given to a person, such
as a computer.
To use elements for time and labor data entry, you must update the
elements you define in Oracle Human Resources or Oracle Payroll with
some additional information(Element Time Information)
You can create number of elements like OVERTIME, REGULAR HOURS with
mandatory INPUT VALUE as Hours.
Element should be nonrecurring Element with Multiple Entries Allowed.

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 Element Description for OTL
HRMS NAVIGATOR-> TOTAL COMPENSATION->BASIC->ELEMENT DESCRIPTION

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 Element Description for OTL
HRMS NAVIGATOR-> TOTAL COMPENSATION->BASIC->ELEMENT DESCRIPTION->INPUT VALUES

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 Element Time Information
To enter element time information:
Select the element.
Select the appropriate earning category.
Note: Complete the remaining fields, as appropriate, depending upon the
earning category you select. (For example, if the element is an overtime
earning, then select Factor/Multiple as the premium type).
Select absence type, for absence earnings, in case you link a holiday
element to it.
In case you select shift differential premium then the element would be
shown in shift differential policy.

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 Element Time Information
OTL APPLICATION DEVELOPER-> OTL TIME ACCOUNTING->ELEMENT TIME INFORMATION

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 Time Structure

Holiday calendar
Shifts
Weekly Roster (Work Plan)
Shift pattern (Rotation Plan)
Earning Group

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 Holiday Calendar

This records the paid and unpaid holidays for an employee group.
This is attached to an employee group using an Earning Policy.

Note: Only those Payroll elements that have been categorized as Absence
Earning would be available at the Earning Type LOV.

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 Holiday Calendar

NAVIGATION
OTL Application Developer Responsibility
OTL Time Accounting
Table Setup and Maintenance Holiday Calendar

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 Shifts
This defines the Shifts prevalent across the Organization.
The system provides us with an option of entering either duration of
Shift or the start & stop timings of the shift.

Note: Early Start & Late Stop are options for broadening the scope of Start &
Stop timings respectively.

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 Defining Shifts

NAVIGATION
OTL Application Developer Responsibility
OTL Time Accounting Table Setup and Maintenance
Shift

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 Work Plan
This is the Weekly Plan for a particular employee.
The shifts have to be defined before they are selected in this form.

Note:
Day Premium is the premium paid for working in an difficult or off
shift.
Shift Diff Override defines the premium paid for working extra hours
other than the regular shift

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 Work Plan

NAVIGATION
OTL Application Developer Responsibility
OTL Time Accounting
Table Setup and Maintenance Work Plan

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 Rotation Plan
This is the pattern in which the employee groups move from one work
plan to another after every week.
The Rotation plan is attached to an employee assignment through
Assignment Time Information.

Note:
Even when the employee has only one Work Plan associated;
One has to attach a Rotation plan to his Assignment.

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 Rotation Plan

NAVIGATION
OTL Application Developer Responsibility
OTL Time Accounting
Table Setup and Maintenance Rotation Plan

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 Earning Group
This provides a provision to group earning elements for reporting
purpose.
This is also used in accumulating hours for further calculation.

Note:
Before this Element Time Information should be appropriately updated.

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 Earning Group

NAVIGATION
OTL Application Developer Responsibility
OTL Time Accounting
Table Setup and Maintenance Earning Group

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 Time and Labor Policies

1. Hour Deduction Policy

2. Premium Eligibility Policy

3. Shift Differential Policy

4. Earning Policy

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 Hour Deduction Policy
Go for this policy when company automatically deducts time for a meal
and breaks
Defining an hour deduction policy is optional within Oracle Time & Labor
Assign an hour deduction policy to an employee, directly.

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 Hour Deduction Policy

NAVIGATION
OTL Application Developer Responsibility
OTL Time Accounting Policies
Hour Deduction

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 Premium Eligibility Policy
This Policy groups together premiums associated to a Base Hour Type.
More than one Base Hour Type could be associated to appropriate
premiums by selecting them one by one and associating them to the
premiums.

Note:
In the Base Hours Type select from the elements that have been
categorized in Element Time Information.
In the Authorized Premium select from the elements that have been
categorized Premiums.
If an Employee Assignment is not linked with the corresponding element
for the premium he/she is eligible; the corresponding premium would not
be processed.

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 Premium Eligibility Policy

NAVIGATION
OTL Application Developer Responsibility
OTL Time Accounting Policies
Premium Eligibility

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 Shift Differential Policy
This policy defines premiums for those shifts that require a special rate of
pay.
Employees who are eligible and who work during the shift automatically
receive the shift differential premium.

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 Shift Differential Policy

NAVIGATION
OTL Application Developer Responsibility
OTL Time Accounting Policies
Shift Differential

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 Earning Policy
Each earning policy is a grouping of rules and a holiday calendar that is
assigned to each person.
The earning policy identifies the daily/weekly base and overtime rules,
the holiday calendar, and the premium policies to use in calculating pay.

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 Earning Policy
Various types of earning policy are
Daily Overtime if you only need to define rules based on a day.
Weekly Overtime if you only need to define rules based on a week
Special Overtime if you are defining rules that are based on a
combination of a day, and/or week, and/or a consecutive days basis

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 Earning Policy

NAVIGATION
OTL Application Developer Responsibility
OTL Time Accounting Policies
Earning

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 Time Period

Recurring Time Period

Time Card Entry Period Approval Period

Note : We can have different set of Approval Periods/Time Card Entry for
different group of employees as per requirement

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 Recurring Time Period
You can define recurring time periods to determine the frequency of
timecard entry and approval.
In the Recurring Time Period window, you can select any of the predefined
payroll period types (such as Weekly, bi-weekly, monthly) or you can
create your own period by using the Duration in Days (such as 3 days, 7
days, 12 days).
You can define as many recurring time periods as you require.

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 Recurring Time Period

NAVIGATION
OTL Application Developer
Responsibility
Recurring Periods

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 Assignment Time Information
Using the Assignment Time Information window, you can assign an
employee to time management structures and policies.
Using this window you can determine if a worker can have timecard auto
generated as well as assigning an earning policy, shift differential policy
and hour deduction policy

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 Assignment Time Information

NAVIGATION
OTL Application Developer Responsibility
OTL Time Accounting Assignment Time
Information

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 Alternate Names
Using alternate names you can configure lists of values on a timecard
layout. You then associate alternate names with a person or a group of
people using preferences. There are two ways to configure lists of values on
a timecard:
You can rename the values displayed in a list of values. For example, you
may wish to change the element name Regular_Earnings_PKW to display
on the timecard as Regular Pay.
You can limit the display of values in a list of values for a specific field on a
specific timecard. This makes it easier for users to complete their timecards
accurately since they only see the locations, projects, tasks, elements, and
expenditure types that are relevant to their work.
For any predefined layout we need to define alternate names and select
values for the Timecard Alternate name Preference.

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 Alternate Names

NAVIGATION
OTL Application Developer Responsibility
Alternate Names

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 Preferences
Oracle Time & Labor includes default preferences with predefined values.
These cannot be changes or deleted.
To view the default preferences in the Preference window, you can
expand the default preferences hierarchy by clicking on the plus sign.
If you wish for all employees at all location in all organizations to have the
same rules you can use the default preferences, or create one new
hierarchy containing the preferences for which you want to specify a
different value.
After creating the preference hierarchies you require, you can assign
them to people by creating eligibility rules. You can link to locations,
organization, all people, and individual people. You can link to other
assignment criteria too, if you use Oracle Human Resources.

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 Preferences
Set of rules that describes how individual workers or groups of workers can
use the application.
One can create as many as preferences hierarchy as one require.
Default Preferences can be divided into three sub category
Self Service
Time Store
Timekeeper

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 Preferences

NAVIGATION
OTL Application Developer Responsibility
Preference

Default
preferences

User Created
preferences

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
Step1:OTL Application Developer-> Preferences->Right Click->New

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
Step2: Give name in Tree and save

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
Step3: Now click the default preferences you will see:
Self Service
Time Keeper
Time Store
Click Self Service copy the Name in Tree: Self Service
Right Click TEST PREFERENCES-> New->Paste Self Service in Name in
Tree and save.
Do same for Time Keeper and Time Store.

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
Step 4: Now you can copy all the other options under Self service, Time Keeper, Time Store (as shown in screen shot)
and save.
Note: You can copy one at a time.

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
Step 5: Setting of Preferences:-
Go to Default Preferences->Self Service->Append Template in Time Card (Copy This)

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
Step 6:Test Preferences->Self Service->Append Template in Time Card->Preferences (Paste) and set the
Preference Value (No) and save

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
Similarly you can do for other options.
TEST PREFERENCES->Self Service-> Worker-> Business Messages:

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
TEST PREFERENCES->Self Service-> Worker-> OTL Rules Evaluation:

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
TEST PREFERENCES->Self Service-> Worker-> Time Card Layout:

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
TEST PREFERENCES->Self Service-> Worker-> Timecard Period:

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
TEST PREFERENCES->Self Service-> Worker-> Timecard Status Allowing Edits

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
Time Store:
TEST PREFERENCES->Time Store -> Application Set ->

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
TEST PREFERENCES->Time Store -> Retrieval Rule Groups ->

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
TEST PREFERENCES->Time Store -> Validate on Save ->

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
Time Keeper:
TEST PREFERENCES->Time Keeper ->Change and Late Audit-> Timekeeper Change and Late Audit
Items

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
TEST PREFERENCES->Time Keeper -> Timekeeper Entry - Display Options

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 Steps to Create Custom Preference
TEST PREFERENCES->Time Keeper -> Timekeeper Timecard Layout

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 Eligibility Rules(Preferences)
People can be eligible for more than one hierarchy, so precedence must
be defined for each eligibility rule.
Eligibility rules can be linked by locations, organizations, all people, and
individual people.

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 Defining Eligibility Rules

NAVIGATION
OTL Application Developer Responsibility
PreferenceEligibility Criteria TAB

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 Viewing People Preference
To view preferences attached with employees.
This is a view only tab and no changes can be made at this level.

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 Viewing People Preference

NAVIGATION
OTL Application Developer Responsibility
PreferencePeople TAB

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 Timekeeper
A Timekeeper is a person who enters time for other employees.
Timekeeper can
Define Timekeeper Groups
Find timecards based on given criteria
Enter time for others
Correct errors
Perform Mass Edits for his entire group or groups

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 Timekeeper
Enter timecard for group of employees based on some other system
Review and make changes to timecards imported from other collecting
devices.
* Time Keeper may not necessarily be the Approver for a Timecard.

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 Timekeeper Group
The group of employees the Time Keeper is responsible for entering or
updating the Time Card Data.
The Time keeper group should include employees with the same timecard
period.
A Particular time keeper can have more than one group associated with
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 Timekeeper Group

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 Timekeeper Entry Window

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 Timekeeper Entry Window

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 Timekeeper Entry Window

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 Timekeeper Entry Window

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 Timekeeper Entry Window

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 Timekeeper Entry Window
Easy
identification of
timecard status Heads-down
data entry

Configurable matrix
layout

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 Timekeeper Entry Window

Mass edit allows you

to enter data for the
entire group in one
action

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 Time Entry Validation
Each rule is linked to a Fast Formula or a Mapping; to validate conditions
for Time Entry for a specific status. These rules need to be grouped into
Time Entry rule Groups where notifications can be defined to be sent
for each rule. This group is then assigned to employees using preferences

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 Time Entry Rule

NAVIGATION
OTL Application Developer Responsibility
Time Entry Rules
Define Time Entry Rules

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 Time Entry Rules & Validation

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 Time Card Template
Templates are used for helping the timekeeper enter the attendance
details in an easier & systematic way.
Each Template is associated with a Time Card.
Templates are of two different kinds
Dynamic Templates ( From a Table Structure or Last entered )
Private Templates ( Personalized Template )

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 Deposit and Retrieval Rule

EAM

Time Store
HR
OTL
Application
Projects

Payroll
Deposit Process Retrieval Process

The time store serves as a gatekeeper of data to all other applications

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 Self Service
Workers use a self-service web page in the format of a timecard. You can
create different timecard layouts for each group of workers so that they
only see the fields that are relevant to them.
You can rearrange the fields on the layouts, edit the list of values, and
rewrite the instruction text to make is easy for your workers to fill out
their timecard quickly and accurately.
Workers on the move can enter their time and labor data in a spreadsheet
and upload it later to the application.
Workers can also use other entry devices such as time clocks, telephones,
or legacy entry systems. You can easily enter this data into Oracle Time &
Labor using the robust timecard API.

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 Responsibility Self Service Time

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 Entering Time through Self Service
Navigation : Self Service Time Time Entry

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 Entering Time through Self Service
Navigation : Self Service Time Time Entry

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 Entering Time through Self Service
Navigation : Self Service Time Time Entry

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 Entering Time through Self Service
Navigation : Self Service Time Time Entry

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 Time Card Approval by Supervisor
Supervisor can approve or reject the timecard entry using the configurable self
service screen

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 Time Card Approval by Supervisor
Approved timecard entry is available on subordinates self service screen

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 Earning Group Table Listing

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 Rotation Plan Table Listing

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Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)
Automatic Days-to-Hours Conversion
In Time and Labor Release 12, users are restricted to entering their time in
Hours because Oracle Projects does not support time entered in Days. In
RUP2, Time and Labor introduces automatic days-to-hours conversion, so
that users can enter Hours and Days within a single timecard and the
system will convert the Days into Hours for Oracle Projects.

To utilize this feature, a user creates a Time Category including all

elements requiring conversion from Days to Hours. The conversion factor
(from Days to Hours) will be calculated by retrieving Normal Hours from
Employee's Assignment and Number of Days in Assignment Frequency
from OTL Preferences.
 Mixed Format Entries

In Time and Labor Release 12, when the Self Service Preference
to Allow Rules Evaluation preference is set to Yes, the application will not
allow mixed time format entries. With RUP2, Time and Labor introduces
an enhancement that allows users to enter mixed format entries for certain
time elements, based on specific conditions. For example: Users can
enter "Regular" as Start time and End time format (09:00 - 12:00) and
"Lunch" as Number of hours (2 hrs) in the same time card.

This feature also allows users to define whether or not a

particular element should be included in "OTLR - Oracle Time and Labor
Rules" explosion. When users mark a particular element as Exclude from
Explosion, Time and Labor will allow entry of mixed time format for that
element while excluding that element from timecard explosion.

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 Oracle Time and Labor

Release 12.0 HRMS RUP7

Use the Multi-Threaded Archive and Restore Process

You can now use OTL with multi-threading in the Archive Data
Set Process enabled. Based on internal logic calculations, the
Archive Data Set process decides the number of worker
processes.

For more details of the new Multi-Threaded Archive and

Restore Process, please refer to My Oracle Support note:
433929.1
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Release 12.1.1

Blank Timecard Rows Retained while Saving Timecard:

Currently, when you select a Zero Hours template for creating a timecard, Oracle Time and Labor (OTL) Self
Service appropriately populates the template rows onto the timecard. If you enter time information for few
rows and leave the other rows untouched, the timecard rows without any time entries are deleted upon
saving the timecard. This is inconvenient when you later want to enter time for the untouched rows, as the
specific rows are no longer available. This enhancement enables OTL Self Service users to retain timecard
row(s) without any hour values when saving the timecard. Such rows are available when you want to update
the saved timecard at later point of time. By default, the current behavior is in place and you can avail this
new functionality by configuring the OTL preferences.

Define Number of Timesheet Line Rows to Pre-populate:

Currently, you can pre-populate timecard rows using static and dynamic templates like Last Timecard or
User-Defined templates without any hour values being imported onto the new timecard. With this
enhancement, you will be able to save the timecard rows without any hour values when the timecard is pre-
populated from timecard templates. When you submit the timecard, timecard row(s) without any hour
values will be ignored.
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Summarize Regular/Overtime Hours Separately:

Currently, the Regular/Overtime summary region is available only on the Timecard Review page. With this
enhancement, you can view the time-entered details and overtime calculation results on the confirmation
page along with timecard explosion.

Supervisor Report to Identify Missing Timesheets:

Currently, we have Missing Timecards report to identify the number of timecards and timecards of different
statuses list. However, this does not report when the user has actually submitted the timecard. With this
enhancement, supervisor would be able to query online the number of timecards in different statuses viz.
not entered, working, error, submitted, approved and rejected along with the user names and last submitted
date.

Supervisor List of Timesheets Expected and Status Online:

Currently, supervisors are unable to query online the status of employees timecards under their hierarchy.
The new Supervisor Timesheet dashboard enables supervisors to query the status of timecards online
considering supervisor hierarchy. Additionally, the dashboard includes the graphical representation in
percentage of timecard status. This enhancement provides supervisors to efficiently find timecards that are
missing, submitted or approved for a specific timecard period. Supervisor can also generate Timecards Status
details.
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Audit Change Report - Identify Changes Made to Timesheets:

As employees have the privilege of changing (any changes and any number of times) the timecard data after
its submission through OTL Preferences, they submit the timecard data for approval, more than once for the
same period. The new Audit Change Report enables time administrators to identify these changes made to
the timecards. The report tracks the changes and indicates the number of times a timecard and what data
was changed after timecard save, submission and subsequent approvals. You can print and maintain them
for audit purposes.

Audit Trail on Time Cards:

This feature provides the complete history of timecards from its timecard submission to approval stages. The
report displays details such as the number of times a particular timecard is submitted, modified, or deleted,
and various actions done by various employees, approvers on a particular timecard.

Display Last Person Who Updated Timesheet:

You can now view the person who last updated the time details on the timecard. As a timecard can undergo
many changes after an employee creates it, providing this information on the timecard enables you to
identify the person who last made changes to the timecard.
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Changes in Core HR and OTL to Support Services Procurement: Currently in OTL, a contingent worker (CWK)
can report time against only one purchase order number, which is associated to the workers assignment.
The CWKs assignment is defined in the Core HR, wherein supplier name, purchase order number, and
purchase order line is associated. These details are retrieved in OTL, to enable the contingent worker to
report time for the above-mentioned combination. With this enhancement, a contingent worker can report
time for multiple purchase orders. Additionally, the contingent worker is able to report time against any valid
project w

A new user Interface is provided wherein users can associate multiple purchase orders to a contingent
worker. You can navigate to this new user interface from the Supplier tab of the Assignment page of Core HR.
The existing functionality of associating purchase order, purchase order lines, and supplier remains as it is.
This enhancement enables OTL Time Sheet to retrieve multiple purchase orders in the Purchase Order list of
values. Now this LOV populates all associated purchase orders of the CWK worker and enables the worker to
report time against multiple purchase orders.
hether or not the project is associated to a purchase order.
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Multiple Alias Support in Notification Layout:

This enhancement includes changes to the OTL Inline Notification timecard layout to support attributes.
The changes ensure that the layout attributes added to the right side of the timecard summary matrix are
included in the day details page context data dictionary. Additionally, the changes add timecard attributes
to the right of the timecard hours entry summary table in the inline notification layout.

OTL User Interface Enhancements:

Release 12.1 enhances OTL with the following changes to the self-service pages:

New Recent Timecard, wherein existing Recent Timecards and Timecard Search screen are merged
together as one. Additionally provide an ability to delete multiple timecards an a single action.
New Projects/ Projects Payroll layouts with Project number and name concatenated together. The
same has been done for task details
Ability to set Default Timecard Period for an user
Ability to set Default Approval Action for a Supervisor/Approver
Ability to set Future Time Period Limit for an user
New status column to display transfer status of a timecard to recipient applications

The new changes on various predefined timecard layouts improve the productivity of OTL self-service users.
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Disabled Text Field Enhancement: Currently, you can design the timecard layout by configuring the Timecard
Entry Layout ldt file to add text fields onto timecard layout, with the default nature of these added fields as
editable. This enhancement enables you to define whether a field on timecard layout should be editable or
not. The setup that you define for these text fields in the Timecard Entry Layout ldt file determines whether
the fields are either enabled or disabled on the self-service Timecard Entry Layout page.

Enhancement to Preference Eligibility Criteria (Responsibility-based Preference): OTLs current preference

eligibility criteria for a selected responsibility assign preferences to the user when theyve selected the
responsibility, while logged in to the system, and only for preferences that are required for the session. For
example, preferences that set the timecard layout or the number of blank rows on the timecard may be set
and used for the session. However, preference values required for processes executed after the timecard
submission, for example preferences required to assign values for Retrieval Rules, Application Set or
Approval Style, use preference eligibility criteria that can be determined when the user has not selected the
responsibility. The preferences used for post timecard submission processes use the preference eligibility
based on HR assignment attributes, assigned to a specific, named person, or assigned to all people.

This enhancement provides a way to assign both temporary (session), and post submission preferences
based on an OTL responsibility, and be persistent after the submission process. This allows for added
flexibility in assigning preferences and enabling OTL functionality.
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Release 12.1.2

OTL Time Card integration with HR Absences

With the integration of Oracle HR and Oracle SSHR Absence modules with Oracle Time and Labor, absences
created in Oracle HR and Oracle SSHR gets automatically populated in the Oracle Time and Labor timecard.
Absence entries that are created or edited in the time card along with other time entries can be viewed in
Oracle HR Absence module. This enhancement introduces checks and validations in the time card and
absence modules to ensure that data consistency is maintained.
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Release 12.1.3

Time Card Retrieval Dashboard

With this release, time administrators will have exhaustive and real-time insight on the timecard retrieval
process for Oracle payroll and Oracle projects applications using the new Time Card Retrieval Dashboard.
This dashboard assists time administrators in effectively monitoring the retrieval process progress, viewing
pre and post retrieval information, and helps in taking prompt corrective actions for any errors. This feature
also assists time administrators to visualize and analyze timecard retrieval information based on criteria such
as HR Supervisor, Project Manager and time card attributes.
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Release 12.1 HRMS RUP5

Rollback Transfer Time from OTL to BEE process.

With this release, a new concurrent program is provided to rollback the payroll retrievals. This process is
equipped to rollback all payroll entries transferred from OTL to BEE either in full or for a time card. This
includes timecards transferred directly to Batch Element Entry (BEE) and timecards transferred through the
Rules Evaluation Engine (OTLR) to BEE.

Retrieval Dashboard changes

From this release, Retrieval Dashboard is HR security enabled. The Retrieval Dashboard now retrieves
employee records based on the HR security profile attached to the responsibility or user. With this release,
you can use a new Retrieval Dashboard feature that provides two new predefined responsibilities Time
Manager and Time Administrator.

The Time Manager responsibility will not have access to the Initiate Retrieval tab.
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Release 12.2.0

New Projects Layouts for Actual Costing

In this release, Oracle Projects provides a feature to process project labor transactions from actual payroll
costs in addition to the existing standard costing basis. Users have the option to use actual pay rates to
calculate accrued labor cost amounts or standard labor costs. To ensure the most accurate pay rate
derivation, new time card attributes such as Job, Work Type and Location are captured in the time card in
addition to existing fields for Project, Task and Type. New layouts are provided to capture the additional pay
rate derivation attributes. To use the new layout, users need to enable a new preference - "Time Store
Enhanced Projects and Payroll Integration Setup". The PRC: Transaction Import program retrieves the new
values when time cards are imported to Oracle Projects.

Attachments in Timecards
There are many business scenarios wherein supporting documents are required to substantiate the time
entry. From this release, users can add attachments to their time cards. Users can attach a file or free form
text or an URL. A system profile OTL: Enable Timecard Attachments has to be set to enable timecard
attachments.

Checkbox to Confirm Time Entry Accuracy

With this release a new check box is provided on the Time card Review page. The Submit button gets
enabled when user selects this check box. The purpose of this check box is to get an affirmative
acknowledgement and confirm the accuracy of the time details entered by the user.
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