Top 6 tables in Peoplesoft Time

and Labor
Jiju Cherian Vengal
TESCO
 TL_EMPL_DATA
• Maps data between EMPLID and T&L parameters like Workgroup,
Taskgroup and Time Reporter Status.
• The PS_JOB of Time and Labor.
• Keys: EMPLID, EMPL_RCD, EFFDT.
• Used to find the Workgroup, Taskgroup, Active status, Time Reporter Type,
Timezone etc. of an employee.
• Found under the Enroll Time Reporters component.
• Needs to be in sync with PS_JOB data.
 TL_RPTD_TIME
• The single most important transaction table in Time and Labor.
• Holds all data regarding the time reported by employees.
• Key: EMPLID, EMPL_RCD, DUR and SEQ_NBR.
• Both Punch and Elapsed data reside in this table – distinguished by the
PUNCH_TYPE field.
• Other important fields – TRC, TL_QUANTITY, RT_SOURCE.
• Has an audit table – AUDIT_TLRPTTIME.
• Final target table of the timesheet component.
 TL_PAYABLE_TIME
• Contains final processed time ready to be sent to a Payroll System.
• Output of the Time Administration process and has the TL_RPTD_TIME as
the source.
• Keys: EMPLID, EMPL_RCD, DUR, SEQ_NBR.
• Other important fields – TRC, TL_QUANTITY, PAYABLE_STATUS,
PAYROLL_REQ_NUM.
• To be used for custom reports and interfaces requiring to take the final
output in Time and Labor.
 TL_TR_STATUS
• Table used by the Time Administration process to determine the
employees to be processed.
• Not externalised through any component – updated by the Time
Administration process and Peoplecode in various components including
timesheet.
• Keys – EMPLID, EMPL_RCD.
• Other important fields – EARLIEST_CHGDT, TA_STATUS.
 TL_IPT
• Intermediary Payable Time tables – IPT tables are the most important
temporary tables in Time Administration processing.
• Data from reported time and scheduling tables are populated in TL_IPT1.
• Extensively used by almost all T&L rules where data is transferred from
one IPT table to another for rule processing.
• TL_PAYABLE_TIME data is populated from TL_IPT1 table at the end of rule
processing.
 TL_EXCEPTION
• Transaction table containing the details of all exceptions that are
generated.
• Exception_Status field tells whether the exception is resolved (R),
unresolved (U) , allowed (A) or changed (A).
• All exceptions with an ‘Archive’ flag on will remain in the TL_EXCEPTION
table after the exception is resolved.
• All High Severity exceptions will have to be resolved for payable time to be
generated.