Personnel Action Types#

Through the Define Personnel Action Types (ISPY) form, you will create PA types within the system to reflect the business processes and approval requirements for your company.

A PA type definition includes a code, an approval level, and a default change reason. In addition, the PA type specifies whether an assignment is required, and defaults values for the 'update future records' and 'cascade change reason' indicators.

Finally, the PA type specifies all the tables that it touches. A single PA type may touch multiple tables, for example, the employment, assignment and assignment details, and it then specifies all the columns available within each of these tables, and the order (sequence) in which those columns should appear.

Through PA types, Personality enables you to make a good business association between a specific change reason/action and the particular fields that must/may be affected by that change.

You will simplify each PA type to indicate only the 'mandatory' and 'optional' fields applicable and indicate those fields which may be viewed with 'no update' option or turned off altogether by the 'no view' option.

Define PA types that focus on a specific change, for example, a wage increase or a promotion, rather than create a few multi-purpose PA types that handle a wage increase and a promotion and an assignment change.

Maintain Personnel Action Types data is maintained on the P2K_SA_PA_TYPES, P2K_SA_PA_TYPE_TABLES and P2K_SA_PA_TYPE_COLUMNS tables.

PA Type

This field holds the name of the Personnel Action type that is being created.

Change Reason

The reason a PA of this type will be created is provided in this field. This is an optional field. A change reason may be provided on the PA definition in ISPY or on the actual PA when initiated.

Description

This field displays the description of the purpose and use of the PA type.

Update Future Records|UPDATE_FUTURE_RECORDS

If this toggle is ON, then the effective date record(s) created after the date of the PA will also be updated. If the toggle is OFF, only the effective date record that is in effect when the PA is processed will be affected.

Cascade Change Reason

If this and the Update Future Records toggle are ON, then the change reason for this PA will override all future dated effective record change reasons. If the toggle is OFF and the Update Future Records toggle is ON, future effective dated records will be updated but their change reason will remain the same.

Track Changes

If this toggle is ON, any changes to the PA that are made by anyone who is not the originator will be tracked. A copy of the PA will be made and given a negative PA number to distinguish it from the original PA.

Table

This field identifies all tables that will be affected by the PA, if selected.

P2K_HR_IDENTITIES	IEID
P2K_HR_PERSONALS	IEPI
P2K_HR_EMPLOYMENTS	IEEI
P2K_HR_ASSIGNMENTS	IEAS - Header
P2K_HR_ASSIGNMENT_DETAILS	IEAS – Effective date tabs
P2K_CM_DISTRIBUTIONS	IEAS – Distribution tab
P2K_SA_PREMIUM_USAGES	IEAS – Premiums tab
P2K_HR_ALIASES	IEAL
P2K_HR_MILITARIES	IEMT
P2K_HR_PROPERTIES	IEPP
P2K_HR_STATISTICS	IEST
P2K_PR_CDN_PAY_RULES	IPRLC
P2K_PR_PAYMENT_RULE_DETAILS	IPPM

Table Alias

This field shows the abbreviated alias for the table selected.

Create, Refresh All PA Columns for Table

If a new release has added new fields to a table, then by pressing this button, all the new information for those fields will be pulled into the database.

Seq. #

This field defines the sequential order of the column or field. This sequence is supplied but you may override the order.

PA Type Columns

This field holds the Personality internal name of the column (field). This field is supplied and is not updateable.

Prompt

This field holds the Personality display name of the column (field). This field is supplied and is not updateable.

PA Column Access

You may use this field to define the access that user have to each column.

Context

If the toggle is ON, any changes to that field in relevant tables made after an ISPA screen is created will cause USPPA to not update that field. If the toggle is OFF, USPPA will update the field regardless of any changes since the ISPA screen was created.

User Field

If the toggle is ON, it indicates that the field is user defined. Any user fields that are added must be given a sequence number of 99000 or higher.

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