Enter, or click to select, a parameter ID of up to 15 alphanumeric characters. Choose characters for your parameter ID that help identify the type of selections you made on the screen, such as PERIOD or QUARTERLY.

When you save your record, all the selections made on the screen are stored with the parameter ID. Later, you can retrieve the parameter using Query.

You can use the parameter to run the process more efficiently because you can select the parameter ID with its previously defined screen selections. After the default selections display on the screen, you can override the defaults.

Enter, or click to select, a parameter description of up to 30 alphanumeric characters.

Enter, or click to select, the pay cycle code you want to process. If you compute payroll and the payroll cycle is a union payroll (that is, there is a "local" associated with the pay cycle on the Manage Pay Periods screen), Costpoint attempts to calculate union deductions. Union deductions are assigned on the Manage Union Profiles screen. Costpoint looks for a Union Profile record based on the Union, Local, and GLC and where the timesheet date falls between the Manage Union Profiles start and end date. If it finds a record, it calculates a deduction amount for each combination of Union/Local/GLC based on the calculation method on the Manage Union Profiles screen.

For any pay cycle code, there can be only one open (pay) period. For any given pay cycle code, only one pay cycle end date can be present in the Payroll Journal. If an old pay cycle period is in the Payroll Journal, you must post that pay cycle period before computing payroll for the next pay period.

Enter, or click to select, an earlier starting date for timesheet selection.

Use this field to include corrections from past pay periods. This is necessary for complete certified payroll reporting, which must report hours worked on a particular day.

This field displays the pay period start date.

This field displays the pay period end date.

Enter, or click to select, the check date for the payroll run.

Use these fields to select the employees for whom you want to compute payroll.

• Employee Option: This drop-down list provides the following range selections:
  • All
  • One
  • Range
  • From Beginning
  • To End

  If you select All, the Start and End fields are disabled; if you select One, the End field is disabled; if you select From Beginning, the Start field is disabled; and if you select To End, the End field is disabled.

• Start Employee: If your range selection is One, Range, or To End, enter, or click to select, the employees for which you want to start the range.
• End Employee: If your range selection is Range or From Beginning, enter, or click to select, the employees with which you wish to end the range.
• Non-Contiguous Range: Select this check box to choose a noncontiguous range of employees. Use the Employee Non-Contiguous Ranges subtask to select the ranges of employees.

Use these fields to enter the name of the turn-off schedule to be used for creating regular paychecks, or the turn-on schedule to be used for bonus paychecks. Set up these schedules on the Manage Deduction Schedules screen.

Use these options to select which timesheets to process. You can select regular timesheets (to include correcting) or bonus timesheets. You must process one type at a time, then print checks and post the Payroll Journal (but don't close the pay period) before you can process the other type.

• Regular: Select this option to process all regular and correcting timesheets.
• Bonus: Select this option to process bonus timesheets.

Select this checkbox if you want to process Regular, Correcting, D-Correcting, N-Reversing, Reversing, and Salary Cap timesheets. You can only process Correcting, D-Correcting, N-Reversing, Reversing, and Salary Cap timesheets if the Check Type is Regular.

Select this checkbox if you want to process bonus timesheets. You can only process bonus timesheets if the Check Type is Bonus.

Select this check box to print warning messages on the error report.

If you click the arrow to the right of and select Compute Payroll after printing the Journal Report as part of this session (this option becomes available after printing), you receive a message box asking if you really intend to compute. If you click OK, the compute process proceeds.

If you selected the Enable Deductions in Arrears Functionality check box on the Configure Payroll Settings screen and a record is found where taking all deductions results in a negative net pay, a message displays that "A negative net pay condition has occurred" and a report is printed in employee ID order showing the deductions for the employee, the assigned amount, the amount taken, and the arrears amount.

To adjust this record, go to the Manage Payroll Records screen and enter the adjustment.

Click the arrow to the right of and select Print/Compute Payroll to receive a message box asking if you really intend to compute. If you click OK, the Journal Report prints, and the compute process follows immediately. After computing has begun, several messages showing records processed, processing step, and percent of completion appear.