You need a Time Entry Rule to run only when one or more of a certain group of Time Attribute values have been entered in the time card. How should you achieve this?

Time-entry rules fire only when their formula logic returns True. To restrict execution to cards that contain specific time-attribute values, you first build a Time Category that’s defined by those values. The category is then passed to, and evaluated inside, the rule’s fast formula. If the category evaluates to True (i.e., at least one entry that meets the attribute criteria exists), the remainder of the rule logic executes; otherwise the formula exits and the rule does nothing. This approach is the method prescribed in the Oracle Time and Labor implementation documentation.

B – HCM Groups classify people, not time-attribute values, so can’t detect values on a time card. C – Rule sets only sequence or group rules; they don’t offer attribute-based execution control. D – A template just supplies parameters; the decision to run still happens in the formula, not the template. E – As with B, HCM Groups can’t reference time-attribute values, and rule sets can’t filter by them.

1. Oracle Fusion Cloud Time and Labor Implementing Time and Labor (24A), section “Create Time Categories for Time Entry Rules”, pp. 191-193.

2. Oracle Fusion Cloud Time and Labor, “Time Entry Rules Explained” (Oracle Help Center, 23D), subsection “Control When a Rule Runs with Time Categories.”

3. Oracle Fusion Applications Fast Formula Guide (24A), chapter “Working with Time and Labor Rule Formulas”, example code using ISTIMECATEGORYVALID (pp. 327-328).