Setting validation options for budgets

Before you create your company's budgets, you must make the following settings on the e-timecard Initialization screen, Time Card Setup tab.

First, under the User-defined columns heading, click on a dropdown arrow and select Budget Hours as one of the fields to appear on time cards. This makes Budget Hours appear as a display-only field in the Extra Information area at the bottom of the Edit Time Card screen.

In the second row for the Budget Hours column, Display Only is automatically selected, and you cannot change it. The third row does not have a dropdown list because the required/optional setting is not relevant to budget hours.

Then, click on the dropdown arrow in the fourth row for the Budget Hours column and select one of the following validation options.

• Soft Error: If an employee charges over the budgeted hours, e-timecard displays an error message but allows the employee to continue saving or submitting the time card.

• Hard Error: If an employee charges over the budgeted hours, e-timecard displays an error message and requires the employee to change the number of hours to be within the budget.

• No Validation: e-timecard displays the remaining budget hours on the time card line, but it does not generate an error if the employee charges over the budget.

Finish the process by clicking Save.

You can read full instructions for setting time card customization options.