# Employee Central Payroll H2 2021 - Link: https://www.lorenzo-datasolutions.com/employee-central-payroll-h2-2021/ - Published: 2021-12-01T07:08:38+00:00 - Author: Anipe Abraham **Employee Central Payroll H2 2021** , release provides exciting innovations across SAP SuccessFactors** Employee Central** **Payroll H2 2021** that can help you transform your HR operations, increase employee engagement, and deliver results.  Don’t miss out on all the great innovations and enhancements. Here are a few key [updates ](https://www.lorenzo-datasolutions.com/employee-central-payroll-training/) you should consider for SuccessFactors **Employee Central Payroll H2 202**1. ## H2 – 2021 Release Schedule * **Preview Release – October 15, 2021** * **Production Release – November 19, 2021** ## 1.Rule Function for Get Payroll Area Control Record We developed this feature to prevent: * Employees from entering past dated employee data changes that affect payroll calculation. * Administrator and business users from entering employee or employment data that affect payroll [calculation](https://www.lorenzo-datasolutions.com/employee-central-payroll-online-training/). This rule function makes the following information available to the system: * Current payroll period, next payroll period as well as their begin and end dates for regular payroll. * Date up to which retroactive accounting (earliest retroactive date) for a payroll area is to be [carried](https://www.lorenzo-datasolutions.com/successfactors-employee-central-payroll-h1-2021/) out. * Current status of payroll, for example, Released for Payroll or Exit Payroll ![Payroll Area Control Record](data:image/gif,GIF89a%01%00%01%00%80%00%00%00%00% 00%FF%FF%FF%21%F9%04%01%00%00%00%00%2C%00%00%00%00%01%00%01%00%00%02%01D%00%3B) **Employee Central Payroll H2 2021** ## Technical Details | Reference Number | PAY-14212 | | Type | New | | Configuration Type | Admin Opt-in | | Lifecycle | General Availability | | Module | Employee Central Payroll | | Feature | Employee Master Data Replication | | Major or Minor | Major | | Software Version | 2H 2021 | | Valid as Of | 2021-11-19 | ## 2. Audit Trail Archiving in Payroll Control Center You can now archive the audit trail of completed process recurrences of Payroll Control Center using the archiving object **PCC_AUDIT**. You can archive audit trail for completed process recurrences if the residence period is fulfilled and read the archive files during the blocking period. We provide this feature to support information lifecycle [managemen](https://www.lorenzo-datasolutions.com/sap-successfactors-sample-videos/) t for customers. ## Configuration Requirements For Employee Central Payroll, Synchronization Support Package EA-HR SP99 must be installed in your system. Please note that, while the Employee Central side of this feature is available, you can’t use the feature as a whole until production release.  ## Technical Details | Reference Number | PAY-16649 | | Type | New | | Configuration Type | Universal | | Lifecycle | General Availability | | Module | Employee Central Payroll | | Feature | Payroll Control Center | | Major or Minor | Major | | Software Version | 2H 2021 | | Valid as Of | 2021-11-19 | **Employee Central Payroll H2 2021** ## 3. Open Payroll Information Links in New Tab On the Payroll Unified Configuration page, you can configure Payroll Information links of type [URL ](https://www.lorenzo-datasolutions.com/self-paced-videos-of-sap-successfactors/) to open in a new tab. Certain custom links of type URL could not be opened within the Payroll Information People Profile page due to technical constraints. This feature is developed so that payroll administrators can configure such links to open in a new tab. ![Open Payroll Information Links](data:image/gif,GIF89a%01%00%01%00%80%00%00%00% 00%00%FF%FF%FF%21%F9%04%01%00%00%00%00%2C%00%00%00%00%01%00%01%00%00%02%01D%00%3B) **Employee Central Payroll H2 2021** ## Technical Details | Reference Number | PAY-14500 | | Type | Changed | | Configuration Type | Admin Opt-in | | Lifecycle | General Availability | | Module | Employee Central Payroll | | Feature | Country/Region Specifics | | Major or Minor | Major | | Software Version | 2H 2021 | | Valid as Of | 2021-11-19 | ** SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll H2 2021 ** ## 4. Complete Payroll Tasks for Absences In Payroll Unified Configuration, payroll administrators can configure tasks of [time typ](https://www.lorenzo-datasolutions.com/successfactors-employee-central-videos/) e Absence for Payroll Tasks. With this feature, payroll administrators receive tasks based on time type as Absence in Complete Payroll Tasks. Payroll administrators can also filter employees using time type of classification Absence. ## Configuration Requirements For Employee Central Payroll, Synchronization Support Package **EA-HR SP99** must be installed in your system. ![Complete Payroll Tasks](data:image/gif,GIF89a%01%00%01%00%80%00%00%00%00%00%FF% FF%FF%21%F9%04%01%00%00%00%00%2C%00%00%00%00%01%00%01%00%00%02%01D%00%3B) ## Technical Details | Reference Number | PAY-14693 | | Type | Changed | | Configuration Type | Admin Opt-in | | Lifecycle | General Availability | | Module | Employee Central Payroll | | Feature | Time Data ReplicationPayroll TasksCountry/Region Specifics | | Major or Minor | Major | | Software Version | 2H 2021 | | Valid as Of | 2021-11-19 | ** SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll H2 2021 ** ## 5. Proxies Deletion Support for Time Data The Trigger Data Replication Proxy Deletion Job allows you to delete proxies that are no longer needed in Employee Central Payroll. This feature offers an easier and more efficient way to delete the obsolete proxies as part of system maintenance. Where previously you achieved this result using the Import Data function, that was rather cumbersome, [now](https://www.lorenzo-datasolutions.com/successfactors-employee-central-videos/) you have a designated feature. ![Proxies Deletion Support for Time](data:image/gif,GIF89a%01%00%01%00%80%00%00% 00%00%00%FF%FF%FF%21%F9%04%01%00%00%00%00%2C%00%00%00%00%01%00%01%00%00%02%01D%00% 3B) ## Technical Details | Reference Number | PAY-14915 | | Type | New | | Configuration Type | Admin Opt-in | | Lifecycle | General Availability | | Module | Employee Central Payroll | | Feature | Time Data Replication | | Major or Minor | Major | | Software Version | 2H 2021 | | Valid as Of | 2021-11-19 | **Employee Central Payroll H2 2021** Thanks & Regards, [Anipe Abraham](https://twitter.com/anipeabraham),[Sr. #SAP #SuccessFactors Consultant | Employee Central | Employee Central Payroll l Onboarding 2.0 | Recruitment Management | PMGM | Sap Hcm | Corporate Trainer.](https://www.youtube.com/c/AnipeAbraham/featured) **Note:** the purpose of the blogs that i write on my personal website is in order to help the consultants and students who are trying to learn new things .i write it as per my personal interest , hope all my blogs are helpful and its just for learning use .to help you with most up to date content in SAP SuccessFactors . 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