SuccessFactors Time Management H2 2024, Release provides exciting innovations across SAP SuccessFactors Time Management H2 2024 that can help you transform your HR operations, increase employee engagement, and deliver results.
Don’t miss out SAP SuccessFactors Time Management H2 2024 on all the great innovations and enhancements. Here are a few key updates you should consider for SuccessFactors Time Management .
H2 – 2024 Release Schedule:
| Release | Preview | Production |
| H2 2024 | 18 – 20th October 2024 | 15 – 17th November 2024 |
1. My Calendar UI as Employee Self-Service
We now offer a monthly calendar UI that employees can use to get an overview of their planned working times, including temporary changes and holidays.
We made this enhancement so that employees can get an overview of their working times easily. Before this enhancement, it was not possible for employees to get a monthly overview of their planned working times in a single calendar view.
Configuration Requirements
You’ve enabled the View My Calendar quick card under Manage Home Page.
Role-Based Permission Prerequisites
- You have the Access My Calendar UI in Self-Service permission under Time Management User Permissions.
- You have the View Planned Working Time permission under Time Management User Permissions.
What’s Changed
How It Looks Now
In the current version, employees can access this overview of their planned working times. The overview can be accessed either using the View My Calendar card on the home page or by means of the View my calendar action search.
In the previous version, there was no single view where employees could access any overview of their planned working times.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | TIM-41962 |
| Product | Employee Central |
| Module | Time Management |
| Feature | Time Off |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Customer configured |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | New |
| Major or Minor | Major |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 2H 2024 |
| Valid as Of | 2024-11-15 |
2. Temporary Holiday Calendar
You can now make temporary changes to an employee’s holiday calendar based on the business requirements and replicate this information to an SAP payroll system.
The Temporary Time Information object has a new field Category that allows you to select either a work schedule or a holiday calendar. The default value is Work Schedule. Selecting holiday calendar in the category field allows you to create a temporary holiday calendar for an employee who travels for work. You can also use the same category field to create temporary work schedules.
Employees can now make temporary changes to their holiday calendar based on the business needs. We offer an intuitive user interface designed for employee self-service usage which allows you to create a temporary holiday calendar when on a business trip. For example, you’re an employee traveling from your office in Berlin to your office in Bangalore for 20 days. During this period, you can create a temporary holiday calendar such that the local holidays of Bangalore if any, become applicable to you during this period.
Note
The temporary holiday calendar overrides the calendar assigned to the employee in the Job Information section of People Profile for the specified period.
You can select the temporary holiday calendar using either the country/region of travel or the holiday calendar name as the search criteria. The temporary changes are sent to the managers for approval if a workflow is configured.
There are regulatory requirements that mandate consideration of public holidays in an employee’s current work location when on a business trip. Employees should be able to create temporary holiday calendar requests for a specified period when they’re traveling to another location.
Configuration Requirements
- Ensure that you have a valid SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking license and it’s enabled.
- Ensure that Time Off is enabled.
- Ensure that Time Off for Leave of Absence Only is disabled.
Role-Based Permission Prerequisites
As an employee, you must have the following permissions to create a temporary holiday calendar using the employee self-service user interface:
- You have the User Time Management User Permissions Create Temporary Change of Holiday Calendar in Self-Service permission.
- You have the View and Edit permissions for User Time Management Object Permissions Temporary Time Information permission.
What’s Changed
How It Looks Now
The temporary time information object with the new Category field.
The employee self-service user interface through which you can create a temporary holiday calendar.
You can delete temporary holiday calendars from the Temporary Changes section.
How It Looked Before
The temporary time information object without the Category field.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | TIM-44621 |
| Product | Time Tracking Employee Central Payroll |
| Module | Time Management |
| Feature | Time Off Time Sheet ERP Integration |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Customer configured |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | New |
| Major or Minor | Major |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 2H 2024 |
| Valid as Of | 2024-11-15 |
3. Access Time Forms Using Deep Link
You can now use the deep links /sf/timeForms#/essScreen and /sf/timeForms to access the Time Forms Employee Self-Service page and the Time Forms Admin Workbench page.
Example
This example links to the Time Forms Employee Self-Service page for a user ID userid897.
https://<app-server-domain>/sf/timeForms?selected_user=userid897#/essScreen
This enhancement improves usability by providing an easier and quicker way to access the Time Forms Employee Self-Service page and the Time Forms Admin Workbench page.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | TIM-45220 |
| Product | Employee Central |
| Module | Time Management |
| Feature | Time Off |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Automatically on |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | New |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 2H 2024 |
| Valid as Of | 2024-11-15 |
4. Enhancements to Out of Office Indicator on the Latest People Profile and Org Chart
We’ve made some enhancements to the out-of-office indicator in the latest People Profile
The enhancements are as follows:
- In both the latest People Profile and the org chart, out-of-office information is now supported for leaves of absence (LOAs) in Time Off for Leave of Absence Only instances.
- In the latest People Profile, “Back on” information is now also determined for LOAs in both Time Off and Time Off for Leave of Absence Only. This doesn’t apply to the latest org chart because that doesn’t generally show “Back on” information.
We made these enhancements in response to customer feedback.
What’s Changed
How It Looks Now
In the current version, the out-of-office feature is supported both for Time Off and Time Off for Leave of Absence Only instances. Furthermore, “Back on” information is now also calculated for LoA absences.
How It Looked Before
In the previous version, the out of office feature was not supported for Time Off for Leave of Absence Only instances. Furthermore, if an employee was on Leave of Absence (in a full Time Off instance), no “Back on” information was shown.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | TIM-42855 |
| Product | Employee Central |
| Module | Time Management |
| Feature | Time Off |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Customer configured |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | Changed |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Business Process Variant | Not Applicable |
| Software Version | 2H 2024 |
| Valid as Of | 2024-11-15 |
Thanks & Regards,
Anipe Abraham,
Sr. #SAP #SuccessFactors Consultant | Employee Central | Employee Central Payroll | Recruitment Management l Onboarding | PMGM | Sap Hcm | Corporate Trainer.
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