Employee Online Home Page

Welcome

The system administrator may periodically change the Message of the Day in the Welcome card to provide timely information and announcements.

EO Dates

Next payday dates on the EO Dates card are calculated based on the pay cycle of the employee. Common codePYPR/CYCLExx is referenced to determine the cutoff date for requests made in EO.

By default, EO does not show dates to users. It recognizes the present date and how it fits into the normal payroll cycles. To display the EO Dates card on the Home page, which tells the user to which checks a request made will apply, use the Show System Dates field in the EO Global Settings.

Begin and end dates are not shown to the employee when they make a change request. EO uses the date time value from the web server to understand the current date. Given the current date and the information from the common code PYPR/CYCLExx (see Common Code Reference Manual), EO is able to construct a timeline of standard period begin and end dates.

An occurrence of common code PYPR/CYCLExx is set up for each payroll cycle. Given that information, EO is able to figure out the standard Period Numbers and the cutoff date for requests. The cutoff date is determined using the value in Associated Numeric Value 1, which represents the number of days prior to the paycheck when cutoff for changes will occur.

The important concept to convey to employees is that of the cutoff date for requests. Requests made prior to the cutoff will apply to one period. Requests made after the cutoff will apply to the next period.

Dates that appear in the card headers represent the check dates, not pay period dates.

Change Requests

Requests made usually map directly to the related tables in the HR database. Thus, a Direct Deposit request shows and modifies data from the hr_dirdep table that can be viewed from the Direct Deposit tab on the HRPYPR page. Updates that change the related HR table will be approved on that page. Benefit update requests map to the HR EO Transaction (HREOTR) page where records are approved and changes then sent to the HR benefit pages. It is important to remember that the approval of EO requests causes changes to be made in the Payroll subsystem as well. The timing of approvals should be done with this in mind. Approvals should not be done while a previous payroll is being processed. The approvals need to be complete before the payroll for the Effective Period is run. The timing and personnel involved in the approval process will vary from organization to organization.