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Tracking Date in HRMS Payroll in Oracle

Inthisarticle,Iwillexplainhowthedate-trackingworksinOracleHRMS.What is DateTracking in OracleHRMS?Let'stakeanexample.AnemployeeemailstotheirHRMSdepartmentthatherSurnamewillchangeafter

2weeks,asshegetsmarriedafter2weeks.Todaybeing10December,HRMSteamwillDate-Trackto24-Dec-2006andqueryonherrecord.

NextherrecordwillbechangedtoreflecttheSurnameapplicablefrom24-Dec-Onwards.

How does Date-Tracking actually happens?AssoonasyoulogontoascreenwhichisbasedonDatesensitiveinformation,

Oraclewillpromptyouwithtwooptions

1.ChangetheEffectiveDateofthecurrentloggedonSESSION

2.RetaintheSYSDATEasCurrentEffectivedate

Inreality,arecordgetscreated/updatedinatablecalledfnd_sessions .

IfyouclickonYES,thenyouwillgetanopportunitytochangetheCurrentSessionDate

OK, the Date Selected by user for date-track is stored in fnd_sessions with their sessionid. But how about application data?Whenyouattempttomodifyadate-tracksensitivedatasuchasPersonSurname,OracleHRMSpromptsyouforeithera

CorrectModeorUpdateMode.

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Letssaytherecord,beforemakingthechangetherecordwas

PersonFirstName:Aish

PersonFirstName:Rai

effective_start_date:10-JAN-2003--whenthepersonjoinedorganization

effective_end_date:31-12-4712--FromHr_Api.g_eot[endoftime,wellnotliterally]

IftherecordismodifiedinCorrectionmode,thenthisrecordwillbemodifiedas

PersonFirstName:Aish

PersonFirstName:Bachan

effective_start_date:10-JAN-2003--whenthepersonjoinedorganizationeffective_end_date:31-12-4712--FromHr_Api.g_eot[endoftime,wellnotliterally]

IftherecordismodifiedinUPDATEmode,thenthisrecordwillbemodifiedas

Theexistingrecordwillbeenddated

PersonFirstName:Aish

PersonFirstName:Rai

effective_start_date:10-JAN-2003--whenthepersonjoinedorganization

effective_end_date:23-Dec-2006--adaypriortodate-trackdate

Anewrecordwillbecreated

PersonFirstName:Aish

PersonFirstName:bachan

effective_start_date:24-DEC2006--whenthepersonjoinedorganizationeffective_end_date:31-12-4712--FromHr_Api.g_eot

Does this mean, when modifying in UPDATE mode existing record is end-dated and a new record is created? Yes,indeed.

What are the other scenarios for the usage of Date-tracking?1.Hiringanemployeeinfuturedate.

2.Makingsalarychangeswhichareeffectiveaftersay2months.

On a SQL*Plus session, I get nothing when I do select * from per_people_v?AlmostalltheHRMSviewsonwhichscreensareHRMSbased,theyhaveajointofnd_sessionstable.

Whenuserchangestheirdate-trackvalue,itgetsreflectedinfnd_sessionstable.

UsetheSQLbelowtocreateadefaultrecordforyourSQL*Plussession/

INSERTINTOfnd_sessions

(session_id

,effective_date)

(SELECTuserenv('sessionid')

,SYSDATE

FROMdual

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WHERENOTEXISTS(SELECT'c'

FROMfnd_sessionss1

WHEREuserenv('sessionid')=s1.session_id));

What if I forget to change the date-tracked date when enteting the screen?YoucanclickonCalendariconasbelow.