This post explores an Off-Cycle design pattern for scenarios where automatic resolution of selected “downstream” Elements is required. To facilitate automatic processing it is necessary to use the Off-Cycle, Element Selection “ALL” option. However, using the “ALL” setting may result in resolution of unwanted elements. This post describes a solution using Generation Controls to govern… Read More: Off-Cycle design using Generation Controls »
Assigning a Deduction Recipient to an Earning or Deduction at Employee level using the “Payee Data > Net Pay / Recipient Elections > Add Deduction Recipients” Component works, but there’s an easier way that improves usability for payroll administrators. Here’s how to configure a solution that allows Deduction Recipients to be selected from Element Assignment, using… Read More: Select Recipient at Element Assignment »
I have worked at a number of PeopleSoft, Global Payroll sites that customized the Self Service Component/s to prevent Employees and/or Managers from submitting an Ineligible Absence Request. Here’s how to present an Error if an Ineligible Absence Request is submitted via Self Service, without customization: Use the “Maintain Text Catalog” Component to create an… Read More: How to Prevent Submission of Ineligible Absence Requests »
One of the fundamentals of relational database design is the use of unique identifiers. So it’s a reasonable assumption that Payroll Elements can be easily identified by a unique ID of some sort. However nothing is that simple in PeopleSoft Global Payroll. Each Element is assigned a numerical value called a Pin Number (PIN_NUM). Pin… Read More: How to Uniquely Identify Payroll Elements »
Mass Triggers are new to version 8.9 and are useful in triggering retrospective calculation when setup tables are changed. For example, if an allowance rate is changed retrospectively Mass Triggers can be used create Iterative and Retro triggers for Employees who have the Earning assigned via EDAP. Unfortunately, the process of creating Mass Triggers is… Read More: Setting up Mass Triggers »
Testing if a Date Element is null within a Formula Element is simple, right? It is not as obvious as you may think. If you attempt to do this by comparing the date to a numeric value of zero you receive the following error when validating the formula “Mixed datatypes used as operands. (17000,1768) The… Read More: How to check if a Date Element is Null »
There is a common gotcha when attempting to pass parameters to a Payroll Message using the “MSG BINDn PTR” elements. If you get error number 508 from Message Set number 17005 saying “… Element pointer # has not been set.”, there is a good chance you have come across this issue. When passing your parameter… Read More: Passing Parameters to Payroll Messages »