SAP ABAP IMG Activity HRPTDW02A (Define Reporting Time Types)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_HRRXX (Software Component) Sub component SAP_HRRXX of SAP_HR
   ⤷ PT (Application Component) Personnel Time Management
     ⤷ PTDW (Package) Time Data Transfer to Business Information Warehouse (BW)
IMG Activity
ID HRPTDW02A Define Reporting Time Types  
Transaction Code S_AHR_61016416   IMG Activity: HRPTDW02A 
Created on 19990312    
Customizing Attributes HRPTDW02A   Define Reporting Time Types 
Customizing Activity OHTX5014   Define Reporting Time Types 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name PT_XX_TMW_SCR_KUM1    

In this activity, you define reporting time types. You can use reporting time types

  • To define display objects for the Time Manager's Workplace
  • For the SAP Query in the simulated infotype 2501
  • To transfer time and labor data to the SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW)

Reporting time types allow you a consolidated view of time and labor data of SAP Time Management. You can create and name your own reporting time types and use them to group time and labor data from the following datasets:

  • Absences infotype (2001)
  • Attendances infotype (2002)
  • Employee Remuneration Information infotype (2010)
  • Time types (table ZES, cluster B2)
  • Time wage types (table ZL, cluster B2)

The system outputs the values of the individual time and labor data according to the unit chosen and the container filled as a cumulated value of the reporting time type.

Units and containers for time and labor data

Two different views are available for defining reporting time types: one for the Time Manager's Workplace and one for SAP Query and SAP BW. The system interprets one view or the other, depending on the location from which the data is requested.

  • In the case of reporting time types for the Time Manager's Workplace, you must specify in the reporting time type itself the unit you want to be used for the value determined (hours or days). This guarantees that time administrators correctly interpret the value that is output.
    In the case of attendance/absence types, you can also specify whether you want the payroll hours/days (that is, the account-relevant field is selected) or the absence hours/days to be output.
  • However, in the case of reporting time types for SAP Query and SAP BW, the values can be accumulated in various containers, according to the unit chosen and the specified value (payroll hours, days, absence hours and days). You therefore specify for each attendance or absence the data you want to be read. For time wage types and time types, you specify what you want the value read to be interpreted as, that is, which container it is to be placed in. You must restrict the selection to one unit. To ensure that the data you receive is of use to you, you should fill the containers consistently for each reporting time type.

Taking account of personnel subarea groupings and/or country groupings

You can take account of employees' organizational assignments as required:

  • You can group time and labor data of different personnel subarea groupings in one reporting time type. Example: The absence type 0100 has the same business significance for several personnel subareas. This means that you can group the absence type 0100 of all relevant personnel subarea groupings in one reporting time type.
  • You can manage time and labor data of different personnel subarea groupings in different reporting time types. This may be necessary if, for example, absence types with the same subtypes have a different business significance.

The same applies to time types with personnel subarea groupings or for wage types with country groupings. Note that you have to maintain the assignments for all personnel subarea groupings if you do not want to exclude employee data from particular personnel subareas.

Taking account of other organizational assignments of employees and purpose of data

You can also form reporting time types according to other organizational assignments of employees, such as the cost center or the Time Management status. To do so, you maintain the GRDWT feature. It determines the rule group(s) for the definition of reporting time types. In the standard system, all employees have the rule group 01.

If you use the reporting time types both in the Time Manager's Workplace and in SAP Query and SAP BW, you can use the rule groups to have different time and labor data included for different purposes. To do so, you use the decision field REPAR in the decision tree of the feature.

Important note: Many customers who use the SAP Cross-Application Time Sheet do not use the SAP HR component. These customers are therefore not able to use the GRDWT feature. So that they can still use the InfoSources of the Cross-Application Time Sheet, only the reporting time types of rule group 01 are processed for the Time Sheet.

If you use the HR component and also the Time Sheet InfoSource, you must also reserve rule group 01 for the Time Sheet.

Example

You want to define a reporting time type, Overtime, for your salaried employees (with Time Management status 0) and your hourly-paid employees (with Time Management status 1). You have to take account of overtime from time balances (cluster table ZES) and employee remuneration information (infotype 2010). You proceed as follows:

  1. You maintain the GRDWT feature. You group employees in a rule group according to the Time Management status: Employees with the Time Management status 1 in rule group 01, those with the Time Management status 0 in rule group 02.
  2. In the Maintain Reporting Time Types activity, you create a reporting time type, Overtime.
  3. In this reporting time type, you group the time type overtime worked (rule group 01 for employees with the Time Management status 1) and the wage types overtime 25% (MM10), overtime 50% (MM20), and overtime basic remuneration (MM00) (rule group 02 for employees with the Time Management status 0).

Requirements

Standard settings

SAP provides some reporting time types in the standard system.

Recommendation

Activities

  1. If required, choose the Maintain Feature GRDWT activity and maintain the feature.
  2. Choose the Maintain Reporting Time Types activity.
  3. Create a reporting time type and enter easily identifiable description for the time type text.
  4. You can use any alphabetical or numerical characters in the name of a reporting time type. Note, however, that the SAP namespace is reserved for reporting time types beginning with a number.
  5. If you are creating reporting time types for the Time Manager's Workplace, specify whether you want them to be managed in days or hours.
  6. Select the reporting time type.
  7. In the dialog structure, double-click on the type of assignment you want: Attendances/Absences Assignment, Time Types Assignment, or Wage Types Assignment.
  8. In the Rule Group: Reporting Time Types field, enter the rule group to which you want the reporting time type to belong. The rule group is queried by the GRDWT feature.
  9. Enter a valid combination of personnel subarea grouping and attendance/absence type or time type, or of a country grouping and wage type.

    You can assign several attendance/absence types, time types, and wage types to one reporting time type. You have to make a new entry for each assignment.

    You can assign both wage types that were determined by time evaluation and stored in the ZL table in cluster B2 and wage types that you entered in the Employee Remuneration Information infotype (2010).

  10. Specify how you want the time to be interpreted:
    1. For the Time Manager's Workplace: If you assign an attendance/absence type, you must specify whether you want the system to read the actual times entered or the times that would be deducted from a quota (payroll hours/days) In the latter case, you have to choose the account-relevant option.
    2. For SAP Query and SAP BW: Enter the individual values you want to read.

Further Notes

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 207   Establish Reporting 
Mandatory / Optional 2   Optional activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 1   Critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
PMKC L - Logical transport object PE00 GRDWT Maintain Feature GRDWT 
VC_T557I C - View cluster SM34 PTDW02 Maintain Reporting Time Types 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20011219 
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