What is the profile frequency?


Your setting for profile frequency determines the units of time for which you can enter standard hours in the profile detail. All of your detail entries are optional.

The table below shows the relationship between the profile frequency and the time card profile detail. Note that for all profile frequencies, you can also set hours for holidays and sixth and seventh days worked.

If the profile frequency is...

You can set standard
hours for...

In these fields in the
profile detail...

Weekly

Each day of the week

MON through SUN

 

Weekly total

TOT

Biweekly

Each day of the first week

MON1 through SUN1

 

Total of the first week

TOT1

 

Each day of the second week

MON2 through SUN2

 

Total of the second week

TOT2

 

Biweekly total

BWTOT

Semi-Monthly

Each day of the week

MON through SUN

 

Weekly total

WKTOT

 

Semi-monthly total

SMTOT

Monthly

Each day of the month

DAY1 through DAY31

 

Weekly total

WKTOT

 

Monthly total

MONTOT

8 Days Week

Each day of the week, including the overlapping days

DAY1 through DAY8

 

Eight-day weekly total

8DTOT

Your options for the profile frequency depend on the pay frequency and time card frequency that you set on the Time Card Schedules screen. See a table that explains the relationship among these three settings.