An employee's entitlement to a certain absence. The quota has a limited validity period, and is reduced by each recorded absence.

Attendance Quota: Determines an employee's time-restricted entitlement to certain attendances. One such example is overtime approval. Recording an attendance of this type reduces an employee's entitlement What is Substitutions? A substitution is employee working time that deviates from planned working time and/or is paid at a different rate because the employee works at an alternative position. Substitutions allow short-term deviations to personal work schedules, as well as different payment for an employee, to be recorded in the system. Substitutions can be set up regardless of whether the absent person is actually being replaced or substituted for temporarily. What is Availability? Description of when a service employee is or is not available. The resource planner uses availability as background information when scheduling a service employee. What are Attendance & Absence Types? Grouping together of employees' scheduled attendances and actual attendances according to the reason for the attendance. Attendances can also be grouped for other personnel-related reasons, such as for employee time accounts and for valuation of personnel times. How do we record Overtime? Overtime approvals can restrict the amount and the exact point in time when working time is recognized as "overtime." The type and amount of overtime compensation also depends upon these criteria. The normal working time of an employee is used to determine overtime. Normal working time can also be calculated according to the specific time periods used to perform weekly or monthly overtime calculation analyses. What is Attendance & Absences Counting Rule? Att Counting Rule: Its a statement that determines deduction days/hours and payroll days/hours from attendance days/hours. An attendance counting rule is made up of several attendance counting rule items. What is the difference among work schedule, daily work schedule and work schedule rule? Work schedule: The work schedule defines an organisation works timetable, and contains information on working and break times for group of employees. Daily Work Schedule: It defines the start and end of working time of the day. Work Schedule Rule: WSR defines the period work schedule in more details. The Employee Subgroup, Personnel Subarea for work schedules and Public Holiday calendar are taken into account. What is counting rules? Counting Rule for Abs/Attn. - Specifies conditions that must be fulfilled for counting rule to be chosen, and specifications that decide how the attendances/absence are counted to determine the payroll days or hour. What are time quotas? Time Quotas: - It is related to absence and attendance. It is required at the time of grouping of 'Employee subgroup for Time quota' and 'Personnel Subarea for Time quota'. Is absence/attendance quotas are part of time quotas? Yes. What is TMW & what are its functions? Time Manager's Workplace is the option for time administrators to enter the time data, it is mainly for maintaining the time events in decentralized. Using intuitive ID they will enter the time events and also absences, OT. What is Rounding Rule? It is a rule to round the absence and attendance hours which will be attached to Counting Rule and then assign to Deduction Rule. What is Quota deduction? Quota deduction is the deduction of employee's absence from the entitlement for any base period.

What is Quota Compensation? Quota Compensation is how the quota is compensated either by off or by encashement. During time evaluation (using PT60) we type in a field called Time Statement Variant. Can anyone tell me where should I configure this field? We run time evaluation on bi-weekly and monthly basis. If the first of month starts on Tuesday and Monday is 31st of the last month, while printing the time statement, its printing31st of the last month in one page and the remaining 30 days of this month in a new page, its just wasting pages. Can anyone tell me how to configure this field so that it prints all days on the same page.ANS:1 In PT60, you only call a variant of the time statement. I think the change have to be made in the form itself. All configurations are in the SPRO Personnel time management/Time evaluation/Evaluation and time management pool/time statement form.... ANS: 2 T.Code:- SE38Select variant radio button Program name - RPTEDT00Give variant name. ANS: 3 Please note the form name used in the report RPTEDT00.You can modify that form in t-code PE51. As u said I tried to find the variant for report RPTIME00 and could see the variant using SE38. But I can see only "values" and "attributes" of a variant; its very difficult to understand what it is? Using PE51, I can't see the variant for the report RPTIME00, but I can see the standard forms. I checked the variant in SE38 has been assigned with any of the forms that are displayed in PE51, but its not can anyone tell how r they related? ANS: 4 This is simple to understand, better have some knowledge on" Variants".http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/c0/980389e58611d194cc00a0c94260a5/fr ameset.htm Se38 - RPTEDT00 - just execute... here you will see the form name of Time Statement (Give standard one otherwise give your custom form name and all required information into parameters on selection screen) then click on save. Give Variant name - SAP& Cust (example) and Meaning in Variant Attributes. Finally save this variant. Go to PT60 and give your Time Statement Variant here and again save if you want one more variant based on your evaluation. ANS: 5 Execute directly the report RPTEDT00 (System/Service/Reporting) with the variant you use with RPTIME. Then you'll see what form is used in the variant. Please note that you will probably have to use PE50 instead of PE51 if the form is a TEDT class your suggestions really helped me to understand about HR forms, I just followed all the above suggestions in creating a form and using in PT61 (RPTEDT00) report, it worked well. But I am still unable to find the option where I can restrict it not to print in a new page (see my above posts). Can anyone help in finding it or give any suggestion where I can set this option. Go to PE50 and modify your form accordingly so that it prints in the same page. I THINK (not sure at all) that you can't always do what you want. If you have any kind of cumulation in your form (Time type or wage type) then the system will split by week (or month...) First thing I would do is to check if I have cumulated value and then go into the configuration help in SPRO where you have some details how it works (see the path I wrote a few messages back) Better all the time get the business requirement as you said not required in second page. Get the requirement what client is expecting on the form and copy the standard form then do the changes accordingly. The business requirement is not to print in a new page. I copied the standard form and modified its fields accordingly. But I am still unable to find the option or any customizing steps where I can limit this not to print in a new page. If any know how we can set the option in the form Are you using a TEDT or TELU form? Did you check the parameter for list layout, weeks total: full weeks only, the help talks about divided weeks. Do you have an example of a period when it happen? I could run it to check if I can re-create the problem

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