Creating a Payroll Export Task
To create a Payroll Export task:
- Select Maintenance > Payroll Settings > Payroll Close > Payroll Export Task.
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Click
Create New Entry.
The Payroll Export Task Detail page is displayed.
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Specify this information:
- Name
- Specify a unique name of the Payroll Export Task. This name is used to specify the Name field (Wbityp_Name column) in the Export Transaction page (WBINT_TRANSACTION table) when a scheduled task in the Job Scheduler runs a Payroll Export Task with the Write to Staging Table option selected.
- Description
- Optionally, specify a description of the Payroll Export Task.
- Output File Path
- Specify the path to where the export output file is to be placed. Use an absolute path.
- Output File Mask
- Specify the exported output file name's mask. The file name of the output file is generated based on the pay group and the time when the pay group was created. The pay group is indicated by the PAY_GROUP_NAME variable and the date can be formatted. See Datatime format for Layout tag.
- For example, if the output file mask is payroll-PAY_GROUP_NAME-yyyy-MM, then the resulting file name is payroll-Night328-2003-03, where Night328 is the pay group name. The file was created on March 2003.
- Output File Extension
- Optionally, specify the extension of the output file name.
- Comments
- Optionally, specify comments for this payroll export task.
- XML
- Specify the XML definition.
- Click Save.