Accessing the payroll export task

  1. Select Maintenance > Payroll Settings > Payroll Close > Payroll Export Task.
  2. Click Edit next to the task you want to access.
  3. Review these fields:
    Name
    Specify a unique name of the payroll export task. This name is used to populate 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
    Specify a description of the payroll export task.
    Output File Path
    Specify the path to where the export out 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 output file was created. The pay group is indicated by the variable PAY_GROUP_NAME and the date can be formatted. For example, if the 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 and March 2003 is the date the file was created.
    Output File Extension
    Specify the extension of the output file name.
    Comments
    Specify any comments for this payroll export task.
    Xml
    Specify the XML definition.