Time Specifications/Employment Period Infotype (0552)
Time Specifications/
Employment Period Infotype (0552)
Definition
The Time Specifications/Employment Period infotype (0552) contains additional employment or absence periods for the
calculation of the employment period.Use
You use this infotype to enter other periods and
date-based durations, for example, which are before the date when the employee started working at the company or before the live start of the SAP System. Periods that are already included in other infotypes, for example, in the Actions (0000), Basic Pay (0008) or Absences (2001) infotypes, are not entered in this infotype.If the system is set up accordingly in Customizing, the data in the Time Specifications/Employment Period infotype is selected and evaluated by the SAP System when the employment period is calculated. For this to work, a
selection rule must be created with the Infotype category.
The Time Specifications/Employment Period infotype enables you to enter data in a list as well as individually.
Structure
The Time Specifications/Employment Period consists of different subtype with the same
time specification types.
You define the conversion rules in Customizing for Personnel Administration under Evaluation Bases ® Calculation of Employment Period ® Time Specifications/Employment Period ® Define Time Specification Types.
The time specification type defines which type of time specification or employment period is being processed. It also determines the screen layout for the subtype. The following fields are shown in the subtype, depending on the definition of the time specification type:
If the period is entered for this time specification type with the start date and end date, the SAP System displays two fields for the input of a validity period.
If the appropriate settings have been made in Customizing, you can specify a weighting for the time specification. You can choose one of the following options:
If input of a
Integration
The SAP System uses the validity period entered in the Time Specifications/Employment Period infotype (0552) to determine and then display the corresponding duration. The duration is determined using a conversion rule. You define a conversion rule based on the time specification type using the feature CRULE. For more information, see Customizing for Personnel Administration under Evaluation Bases ® Calculation of Employment Period ® Time Specifications/Employment Period ® Assign Conversion Rule to Time Specification Types for Display.
See also:
Entering Manual Time Specifications/Employment Periods