Hierarchy
SAP_ABA (Software Component) Cross-Application Component⤷
CA-HR (Application Component) Cross-Application Objects in HR⤷
BPTM (Package) Cross-Application Objects in HR Time Management
Basic Data
| Data Element | VTKEN |
| Short Description | Previous Day Indicator |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | XFELD | |
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 1 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 1 | |
| Value Table |
Further Characteristics
| Search Help: Name | ||
| Search Help: Parameters | ||
| Parameter ID | ||
| Default Component name | PREVIOUS_DAY | |
| Change document | ||
| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Prev. Day |
| Medium | 15 | Previous Day |
| Long | 20 | Prev. day indicator |
| Heading | 1 | P |
Documentation
Definition
The previous day indicator in Time Management indicates that the record should be assigned to the previous day. It is relevant mainly to daily work schedules which bridge two calendar days (e.g. 22:00 - 06:00).
Use
You only use the previous day indicator if you record time data with clock times. The daily work schedule assigned to the employee always applies to the day on which the start time lies in this case.
The information provided by the previous day indicator is therefore of central importance. There is no other way for the system to assign a record which has a start time a day later than the start time in the personal work schedule to the correct daily work schedule.
Planned working time 22:00 - 06:00
Record entered 02:00 - 05:00 -> previous day indicator
is set
Procedure
Examples
The daily work schedule NIGHT 2 comprises a planned working time of 22:00 through 06:00. An employee works the night from December 14 to December 15, and works a substitution for his/her foreman from 02:00 through 04:00.
The previous day indicator was not set when the substitution was recorded. The substitution is therefore assigned to December 15 instead of December 14. This can lead to the following problems, for example:
- Collisions with substitutions on the following day.
- The substitution not being taken into account in payroll, as the following day is a Saturday and the employee does not have to work on Saturdays.
Dependencies
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20020827 |
| SAP Release Created in |
