Outputting Messages

Use

An important task of time evaluation is to inform administrators about errors or results that require their attention. Time evaluation performs the following tasks:

  • Checking the consistency of the time data being evaluated

Time evaluation checks whether the time data has been recorded correctly, and whether it is plausible in relation to working time regulations and other recorded time data.

  • Checking working time provisions, company working time regulations, and time accounts

Time evaluation is theoretically able to correct the most frequent error situations, however, it does not do so, because in many situations time administrators should

  • Be informed when particular situations occur

  • Be informed of particular situations in good time, such as just before value limits are reached for particular time accounts, for example

  • Be able to run statistics on frequent working time violations

  • Postprocess inconsistent time data once they have discussed it with employees

Time evaluation also draws administrators’ attention to "serious" errors that prevent the evaluation of time data. Possible reasons for such errors are errors in pair formation or in Customizing, for example.

Note Note

For information on errors in pair formation, see Determining Status and Pair Type During Pair Formation .

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Features

Time evaluation issues messages to inform administrators of error situations that have occurred or of results that require their attention. These messages can then be

  • Postprocessed in the Time Manager’s Workplace. For more information, see Message Processing .

  • Evaluated with statistics using the Time Evaluation Messages report (RPTERL00), for example.

In the standard system, the definition of particular messages is fixed. For other situations, you can specify in Customizing the message to be output by time evaluation. For more information, see Generation of Messages in Day Processing .

The messages issued are stored in the following tables: