What Happens:

When part of a Time and Attendance Close:

This step is meant to allow the user to make sure there are not too many employee calculation requests pending before they continue with the job. The user has the option to enter two preferences:

1. The first field is the maximum number of pending employee calculation requests acceptable in the system before the step is acceptable.
2. The second field is the decimal number of hours before the step is acceptable. Once the step is in progress the user can change these settings if they want.

When part of a Staffing and Scheduling Pay Period Close:

• Posting lock is enabled.
• The scheduling system halts Replication and any downloads that are in progress.
• Client Lock is also activated to eliminate changed/additions during the pay period being closed.
• Upon acceptance no additions, edits or deletes are allowed into Time and Attendance and Staffing and Scheduling for the pay period instances being processed.
  • No new badge reader records are able to be added
  • No addition, edits or deletions can be made from the portal.
  • Replication is halted. No records are added, edited or deleted due to the replication process.
• Downloads are halted. In process jobs are allowed to complete and no new jobs are allowed to begin.

Step Type:

Check

Subsystems:

Dispatch server (synchronous call for number of pending employee calculations which does not directly affect the job.)

Can Be Rerun After Accepted:

Yes

Locking:

• Pay Periods in job are locked with the Client lock when this step is started. This lock prevents portal users from obtaining locks on the pay periods data.
• Pay Periods in job are locked with the Calculations lock when this step is accepted. This lock prevents employee calculations in the affected pay periods.
• Employee locks are applied at some point during this step. The user can apply these locks while the step is in progress using a button in the wizard or they will be applied automatically when the step is accepted. These employee locks lock the employees affected by the close job for the pay periods affected by the close job preventing the changing of data in the portal. The locks are places under the guise of the system account (1).