Time Events Infotype (2011)

Definition

In the SAP system, time events are saved time postings (such as clock-ins and -outs or start and end of work) that employees have made at an external time recording system. Employees normally post these times at the time recording terminal. If an employee has forgotten to clock in or out or if an entry is incorrect, you can use the Time Events infotype to create, correct, or delete the time events manually.

Use

You require this infotype only if you valuate employees’ time data using time evaluation.

You should manually maintain time events only if you have received a message to that effect in time evaluation. It may be that time evaluation automatically enters missing postings. The system determines the missing times on the basis of the employee’s planned working times.

If you use the Clock-In/Out Corrections Employee Self-Service application in your company, your employees can use the weekly overview graphic to correct errors by themselves that occurred due to incorrect entries at the time recording terminal. For more information, see Clock-In/Out Corrections .

Structure

  • Time events can only be recorded for employees who take part in time evaluation. This must be specified in the Planned Working Time infotype (0007). The employee must also be assigned an authorization for the required time event types in the Time Recording Information infotype (0050). Time event types can be clock-in/out times for normal attendances, off-site work, and so on.

  • The time events displayed in the infotype are stored in the TEVEN database table, not directly in the infotype itself. The infotype is therefore only a user interface for maintaining the database table.

  • In the Day assignment field, you can set a previous day indicatorto specify whether the work should be assigned to the work schedule of the current or the previous day.

    The system sets the indicator automatically if the time events are joined in pairs during time evaluation.The following indicators are used in the infotype to denote the assignment:

    =The event was assigned to the current day.

    <The event was assigned to the previous day.

    You can override this automatic assignment by entering one of the following:

    +The event should be assigned to the current day.

    – The event should be assigned to the previous day.