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, it routes to the Line Manager, but if the time card contains an absence, it can also route to an HR admin?

In Oracle Cloud HCM each component of the record is approved by the BPM task that owns it.
• Regular-hours entries on a Payroll layout time card are routed by the Payroll Time Card Approval task (TimecardApproval).
• Absence entries that appear on the same time card do NOT use that task; they invoke the AbsencesApprovalsTask that is delivered with Absence Management. Therefore, to send regular hours only to the line manager and, whenever an absence is present, add an HR-administrator approver, you must configure independent rules in BOTH tasks:
– TimecardApproval: rule routes to Line Manager.
– AbsencesApprovalsTask: rule adds HR Admin (and can keep Line Manager if required).

A. Fusion BPM allows separate approval rules per task—configuration is fully supported.
B. Changes to AbsencesApprovalsTask alone ignore regular-hours approval requirements.
C. TimecardApproval alone never intercepts absence records, so HR admin would not be involved.
D. ProjectTimecardApproval is used only for project-enabled time cards, not standard Payroll layouts.

1. Oracle Fusion Cloud Time and Labor 24A, “Implementing Time and Labor”, Section 10.3 “Payroll Time Card Approval (TimecardApproval)”, pp. 248-250.

2. Oracle Fusion Cloud Absence Management 24A, “Implementing Absence Management”, Section 9.2 “AbsenceApprovalsTask Rules”, pp. 191-194.

3. Oracle HCM Cloud Applications, “Configuring Approval Management for HCM”, Doc ID 2114237.1, §“Multiple BPM Tasks for Composite Transactions”, p. 4.

4. Oracle Fusion Middleware BPM Suite 12c, Developer’s Guide, Chapter 35 “Customizing Human Workflow Tasks in BPM Worklist”, pp. 35-3 to 35-6.