PeopleSoft Time and Labor – North America Rel. 9.2 Ed 2 — Lesson 1: Time and Labor Foundations, Workgroups, Taskgroups, Time Reporters, and Calendars

Learning Objectives

• Explain the architecture, workflow, or business purpose behind Time and Labor architecture, process flow, and integration boundaries.
• Apply workgroups, default rules, time periods, and effective dating and taskgroups, task templates, task profiles, and costing dimensions in a controlled scenario.
• Validate outcomes and troubleshoot risks involving time reporter data, employee setup, badges awareness, calendars, and validation.

Detailed Topics

• Time and Labor architecture, process flow, and integration boundaries
• workgroups, default rules, time periods, and effective dating
• taskgroups, task templates, task profiles, and costing dimensions
• time reporter data, employee setup, badges awareness, calendars, and validation

Instructor Demonstration

Demonstrate Time and Labor architecture, process flow, and integration boundaries within an hourly workforce configured for accurate time capture, rule processing, approvals, exceptions, and payroll handoff, then capture the exact configuration, command, transaction, report, model, query, code, or process evidence that proves the result for lesson 1.

Hands-On Exercise

Implement a controlled exercise covering workgroups, default rules, time periods, and effective dating and taskgroups, task templates, task profiles, and costing dimensions, then introduce and resolve an exception involving time reporter data, employee setup, badges awareness, calendars, and validation while preserving before-and-after evidence.

1. Confirm the environment, identities, inputs, dependencies, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Complete the course-specific configuration, development, analysis, or process workflow.
3. Capture settings, commands, data, outputs, logs, reports, screenshots, calculations, or test results.
4. Compare the observed result with acceptance criteria and document corrective action.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the technical or business decision that must be made.
• Compare valid approaches and their security, performance, reliability, cost, compliance, and support trade-offs.
• Define rollback, recovery, ownership, communication, and evidence requirements.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Diagnose issues across Time and Labor architecture, process flow, and integration boundaries, workgroups, default rules, time periods, and effective dating, taskgroups, task templates, task profiles, and costing dimensions, time reporter data, employee setup, badges awareness, calendars, and validation without making an unverified production change. Separate symptoms from causes, gather evidence, test the smallest reversible correction, rerun validation, and record preventive action.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement, scope, inputs, dependencies, and expected result are documented.
• The result is reproducible and supported by course-specific evidence.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, performance, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• Exceptions, rollback, ownership, and the next improvement priority are recorded.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Time and Labor Foundations, Workgroups, Taskgroups, Time Reporters, and Calendars in a realistic PeopleSoft Time and Labor – North America Rel. 9.2 Ed 2 scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.