PeopleSoft Time and Labor – North America Rel. 9.2 Ed 2 — Lesson 2: Time Reporting Codes, Templates, Time Entry, Approvals, and Self-Service

Learning Objectives

• Explain the architecture, workflow, or business purpose behind time reporting codes, units, earnings mapping, and attributes.
• Apply timesheet and elapsed-time templates, schedules, and display controls and reported time entry, punches awareness, comments, and corrections in a controlled scenario.
• Validate outcomes and troubleshoot risks involving approval workflow, supervisors, exceptions, delegated approval, and audit trail.

Detailed Topics

• time reporting codes, units, earnings mapping, and attributes
• timesheet and elapsed-time templates, schedules, and display controls
• reported time entry, punches awareness, comments, and corrections
• approval workflow, supervisors, exceptions, delegated approval, and audit trail

Instructor Demonstration

Demonstrate time reporting codes, units, earnings mapping, and attributes 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 2.

Hands-On Exercise

Implement a controlled exercise covering timesheet and elapsed-time templates, schedules, and display controls and reported time entry, punches awareness, comments, and corrections, then introduce and resolve an exception involving approval workflow, supervisors, exceptions, delegated approval, and audit trail 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 reporting codes, units, earnings mapping, and attributes, timesheet and elapsed-time templates, schedules, and display controls, reported time entry, punches awareness, comments, and corrections, approval workflow, supervisors, exceptions, delegated approval, and audit trail 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 Reporting Codes, Templates, Time Entry, Approvals, and Self-Service in a realistic PeopleSoft Time and Labor – North America Rel. 9.2 Ed 2 scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.