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What we cover ?

OTL Basic functional part

OTL Technical overview

OTL Timecard Table structure and validations

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Functional Overview(Setup Related)

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OTL Basics

Oracle Time and Labour

Oracle Time & Labour is an e–business suite solution to meet the requirements of:

Time Capture Time Validation

Time Approval Time Management

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OTL Basics

OTL, it is the single point of Time Entry solution available in the Oracle

E-Business Suite.

OTL allows you to capture, validate, approve and store the time

information.

 OTL currently has out of box integration with Oracle Human Resources

(HR), Oracle Internet Expenses, Oracle Project Resource Management,

Oracle Payroll, Oracle Projects, Oracle Enterprise Asset

Management and Oracle Procurement.

 It provides a set of public API's which can be used for developing

custom integration with other products.

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OTL Time Structure

Holiday Calendar

Shifts

Weekly Roster

Shift pattern (Rotation Plan)

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Holiday Calendar

This records the paid and unpaid holidays for an employee

group.

This is attached to an employee group using an Earning Policy.

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OTL Application Developer OTL Time Accounting Table

Setup and Maintenance Holiday Calendar

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OTL Shift Plan

This defines the Shifts prevalent across the Organization.

The system provides us with an option of entering either

“duration” of Shift or the “start & stop timings” of the shift.

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OTL Application Developer OTL Time Accounting Table

Setup and Maintenance Shift

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OTL Work Plan

This is the Weekly Plan for a particular employee.

The shifts defined already, will be assigned here.

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OTL Application Developer OTL Time Accounting Table

Setup and Maintenance Work Plan

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OTL Rotation Plan

This is the pattern in which the employee groups move from

one work plan to another after every week.

Rotation plans identify the dates on which an employee movesfrom one work plan to another.

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OTL Application Developer OTL Time Accounting Table

Setup and Maintenance Rotation Plan

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OTL Earning Group

This provides a provision to group earning elements for

reporting purpose

This is also used in accumulating hours for further calculation

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OTL Application Developer OTL Time Accounting Table

Setup and Maintenance Earning Group

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OTL Time entry Rules and Rule Groups

Time Entry Rules

To validate a timecard when it is saved or submitted and

displaya business message, error or warning.

To determine which time entries or changes require approval

for each application.

Time Entry Groups

Once the time entry rules for validation are defined , the rules

together can be clubbed and assigned to a person or a group of

people via preferences.

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OTL Application Developer Time Entry Rules

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OTL Recurring Periods and Approvals

Recurring Periods

Number of days or columns appearing in the timecard screen

are controlled by Recurring Period.

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OTL Application Developer Recurring Period

Approvals

Periods: To define what all applications will be using these

periods

Style: To define the way of approval

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OTL Application Developer Approvals

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OTL Preferences

Preferences are set to decide how the timecard will look like,

what all validations will be applied on the time card..

This is done once all the set ups are done

Preferences are created and attached to certain business

group or organization or may be the employee depending on the

requirements

People can be eligible for more than one hierarchy, so we must

define a precedence to each eligibility rule.

A predefined eligibility rule links the default preference to all

people, with a low precedence so you can override it.

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OTL Assignment Time Info

Assignment Time Information window, is used to assign an

employee to time management structures and policies

In the Autogen Hours YN field, select Yes to auto generate this

person’s timecard or No to prevent auto generation

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OTL Application Developer OTL Time Accounting

Assignment Time Information

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Technical Overview

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OTL Time Building Blocks

When entering time in a time card, we actually create objects

(database records) called time building blocks

The OTL timecard data-structure is a hierarchical collection of

time building blocks

The top time building block (the one without a parent) is the

TIMECARD time building block, and represents the range of

time for which this timecard exists, such as a week or a month.

Time building blocks have one or more child blocks and one

parent block. You can attach blocks to other blocks, and build

the complete timecard for a period of time.

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OTL Time Card Data Model

The data model reflects the user interface of the timecard

page.

Model explanation:Consider a square split in half. This square represents the screen,and in one half, we render the attributes associated with the TIMECARD time building block, such as the comment text field, in the

other half, we render all the child building blocks of this block, the days and entries. Next, the process occurs for these child blocks,namely a square split in half, in one half we render the attributes the other we render the child building blocks of this block, and soon.

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