Entering Manual Time Specifications/Employment Periods (SAP Library

Entering Manual Time Specifications/Employment Periods

Use

You use this procedure to enter any employment or absence periods for an employee that cannot be entered in other infotypes. For example, this may be periods before the system start date or before the employee's hiring date.

Prerequisites

To evaluate these employment or absence periods within the employment period calculation, you must make the required settings in Customizing for Personnel Administration under Evaluation Bases ® Calculation of Employment Period. In particular, you must ensure that a selection rule exits with the Infotype category. This selection rule selects the periods from the infotype.

Procedure

Choose Human resources® Personnel Management ® Administration ® HR master data ® Maintain.

The Maintain HR Master Data screen appears.

Enter the required personnel number.

In the Direct selection group box, enter the Time Specifications/Employment Period infotype (0552). In the STy field, enter a time specification type.

If you want to enter several data records for an employee, choose Goto ® List entry to access a list. You use this list for the fast entry of time specifications or employment periods.

Choose

Create.

The Create Time Specifications/Employment Period screen appears.

Enter the required data for the time specification or employment period:

Enter the validity period and, if required, a weighting factor for the time interval.

For a date-based duration, enter the validity period and the duration in years, months, and days.

Choose Save.

Result

The specification or employment period is saved in the Time Specification/Employment Period infotype (0552) and can be selected and evaluated when the employment period is calculated.