Message Processing (SAP Library - Personnel Time Management (PT))

Message Processing

Use

You can check certain situations such as working time collisions and time account balances in time evaluation. Time evaluation produces messages in addition to a log.

The Message Processing task in the Time Manager’s Workplace is a comprehensive tool for both evaluating messages and reprocessing them.

Messages are viewed and processed by time administrators after time evaluation is run. In this way, time evaluation messages help to evaluate time data recorded. Sometimes all you need is one message to determine what happened for an entire day. In other cases, however, only the appearance of several messages enables you to estimate the entire day.

For more information on messages generated in time evaluation, see Output Messages .

Features

Message processing is integrated in the Time Manager’s Workplace. You use all of the same user interfaces and functions for message processing available for maintaining time data in the Time Manager’s Workplace.

To evaluate a message, you can see an overview of all time data for one day, the previous day, or the following day. Essential time data and time balances can be viewed in info columns provided for the message.

You can switch between the Employee View and the Message View during message processing. In the Message View, you can group together messages into message functional areas that require similar processing or deal with the same business-related topic.

Each message category has a different icon. From this icon, you can see at a glance whether a note, info message, or error message was issued.

You can confirm messages after you acknowledge their receipt. These messages then disappear from the message list.