How should you configure Time and Labor Approvals to route to multiple approvers so that if a Payroll Layout time card only contains regular hours…

When a user submits a time card that includes both regular hours and an absence, Oracle Fusion HCM initiates two distinct approval transactions. The time entries are processed through the Time and Labor approval workflow, governed by the TimecardApproval BPM task. The absence entry is processed through the Absence Management approval workflow, governed by the AbsencesApprovalsTask.

To meet the requirement, the TimecardApproval task must be configured to route to the Line Manager for the time-related entries. Concurrently, the AbsencesApprovalsTask must be configured to route to the HR admin for the absence portion of the submission. Therefore, modifications in both BPM tasks are necessary to achieve the specified conditional routing.

A. This is not possible.

This is incorrect. Oracle's BPM Worklist provides extensive capabilities to configure complex, conditional approval rules based on transaction attributes.

B. You should use the BPM Worklist and modify the BPM task: AbsencesApprovalsTask.

This is incomplete. This action only configures the approval for the absence portion and does not address the approval routing for the regular hours on the time card.

C. You should use the BPM Worklist and modify the Payroll Time Card Approval – > BPM task: TimecardApproval.

This is also incomplete. While this configures the approval for the time entries, it neglects the separate, standard approval process for the absence entry, which is handled by a different task.

D. You should use the BPM Worklist and modify the Project Time Card Approval – > BPM task: ProjectTimecardApproval.

This is incorrect. The question specifies a "Payroll Layout time card," for which the appropriate BPM task is TimecardApproval, not the task for project-related time cards.

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1. My Oracle Support

Doc ID 2101584.1. HCM Approvals: How Time Card and Absence Approvals Work Together. This document explicitly states

"When an employee submits a time card which has absence hours entered on it

it will trigger two approval transactions. One for the Time card and one for the Absence. The approval rules for both these transactions are independent of each other." This confirms that two separate tasks (TimecardApproval and AbsencesApprovalsTask) are invoked and must be configured independently.

2. Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM: Implementing Time and Labor

23D. Chapter: Time Entry Approvals > How You Configure Time Card Approvals. This chapter details the configuration of the TimecardApproval task in the BPM Worklist for time entries submitted on a time card. It outlines how to build rules for routing to approvers like line managers.

3. Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM: Implementing Absence Management

23D. Chapter: Absence Approvals > Overview of Absence Approvals. This chapter describes the setup for absence approvals using the AbsencesApprovalsTask in the BPM Worklist

which is triggered when any absence is recorded

including those entered via a time card.