HCM (Human Capital Management, Payroll)

I am developing the order report for my company. I used crystal report version 11.0.0.895 with Oracle database. All the steps regarding report development are successfully executed and the report is successfully run in crystal report. We are using IFS 9 and the report is integrated with Presentation Object Scanner in IFS. When I run the report from Order Report window it shows following error Can anyone suggest me what is the reason behind this error. Thanks in advance

IFS10 - UPD8 - O&G ExtensionWe are an O&G company working with mobile offshore units. For salaries we currently use a system called OCS - designed to fit the Collective agreement for employees on mobile offshore units and drilling and catering on permanently placed facilities on the Norwegian continental shelf. We would like to know if there are other IFS customers who currently use IFS for reporting by offshore personnel, and transfer the data to another system for salaries. Please get in touch with me if you use OCS for salaries (integrated with IFS), or another system and have designed IFS for a similar offshore agreement. We would like to hear about your experiences, in order to find out if it is possible to use IFS for reporting and integrate with OCS for salaries.Many thanks in advance!

Training events are often registered after the actual training have taken place just to keep a record of the trainings held. When adding participants to training event we very often get warning message “Training participant xxx might be unavailable for the training due to absence. See the reference text column for more details.In reference text we see Time Card Absence;Looking at employee time card we see that employee was present during this day.Does anyone know the logic used? On the training events there is only start and end date and nr of hours but no start time. 

HiI am trying to set up a streams message using Events for Holiday Approval. I can test this by using USER_ID which sends the streams to myself/from myself. What I can’t see is how to send this message to my supervisor.If I choose to use Email to send the message, I can choose to send the message to SUPERVISOR_MAIL which works.Is there a way to send the streams message to supervisor ID?ThanksStewart

Afternoon all, I have come across an issue that I am sure has plagued others before. Way back in the heady days of 7.5 being implemented the business made a decision to opt out of a numerical ID system for our Person and User ID records. Instead we opted for <First Initial><Surname> e.g. NTAYLOR. The problem we have is that one of our users got married and now the Person ID and User ID do not reflect her now taken name and has asked if we can update the Person ID/User ID to correctly reflect her new surname. As these are somewhat key fields within the system I am pretty sure there isn’t a standard way of achieving this as it would need to flush the entire system to update everything that was ever posted with these ID’s. If anyone knows of a way how to do this or (for the IFS employees) if  a data fix exists for this kind of change it would be interesting to know!   Regards Nathan

We currently have IFS Application 10 Update 8 installed in our environment and we plan on moving from IFS Enterprise Explorer to Aurena in the coming months.  I’ve been playing with the Aurena environment and I haven’t been able to locate the Time Clock terminal within Aurena. Do anyone know if IFS as ported the Time Clock terminal to the Aurena client or do we need to wait until a future IFS Application 10 Update packag? Thank you,William Klotz 

Is there a way to attach a Photo in Trip Tracker to a Mileage claim? We would like users to attach their fuel receipt when claiming Mileage, however to Photo option does not appear under the Mileage section. The photos option only seems to appear when entering an expense claim in the ‘Receipts’ section. As a work around we have created an Expense Code called ‘FUEL RECEIPTS’ and asked users to attach the claim using this expense code. Expense claims don’t allow 0 value lines so we ask them to enter 0.01. Allow we can default this line to non-reimbursable, it’s not ideal and could easily be avoided if we could add photos via the mileage entries.

Hi, I’m using MPB to schedule work orders and the option priorize critical service is not working right.   Does anyone know what logic IFS uses? E.g. Criticality and Priorite is considered by alphabetic asc order, or line number order, or another else?       tks a lot.  

Current time clock required touching the Clock In and Clock Out button on touch screen devices or using mouse and keyboard for other time clock enabled devices. Has anyone developed a touch free solution with bar codes, RFID or other?

When viewing payslip using Order Report and selecting Paylip Uk the payslip displays data however when viewing the payslip in Employee Self Service it uses Payslip Uk and the report opens up without displaying any data.Can you please advise as soon as possible

How to force new users to change their password when they attempt their first logging in ?

I am trying to create a Fire Roll Call that lists current employees when they are classed as present.    When you look at the Present Employees screen in IFS the view is COMPANY_PERS_ASSIGN_BASIC. The Present column calls the following API to get the result of whether they are present or not:   Time_Pers_Diary_Clock_Util_Api.Is_Present_Offset(company_id, emp_no,null )    and returns a 1 or 0. This was working fine in my Crystal Report but is not available when you add the WEB_UTIL_API.  I have tried adding it as a custom field within the COMPANY_PERS_ASSIGN_BASIC view but cannot seem to get this to work.     How can I get the result of the API into my report?     Any advice gratefully received. 

Hi, Can someone guide me on how to use an image stored in the database table in an operational report? I have stored the image as a blob in the database. And I was trying to fetch the image using a select statement. But, it is not showing the image even though it shows the value of the string when trying to preview the report. Therefore, any idea on how can we call an image stored in the database in the report? Regards, Sachinthani.

Hi All, We have objversion in most of the IFS Views with below conversion, ltrim(lpad(to_char(rowversion,'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS'),2000)). Is there any specific reason for converting the date field of rowversion. Please share if anyone has valid reason about it.   Regards, Sri

Hi,Has anyone an example of travel expense rule for Norway? ThanksBrKarolina 

Hi All,    When the business need to optimize stock levels per site, what support and how is this working in IFS? The stock levels needs to be optimized based on historical delivery, service level, season variations in demand, EOQ and cost of stock. //A  

Hello,We are in the process of implementing Apps10 and working on the Health and Safety module, specifically Incidents.We would like to use this as our Near Miss and Accident reporting tool, but need to restrict access for users to only allow their entries + adding new. However, due to privacy reasons, cannot display other persons information that may have been injured in an accident (coordinator, reported by, etc.).IFS default a user can see all entries for their respective company. Thanks,Jeff Nattermann

Hello all,   We recently installed BA on a user computer. It appears to work fine in Excel, and will load data. However, when trying to preview the report in IFS itself, in the BA folder, the following error message loads:   “Cannot View File Type .xlsx A Previewer is not installed”.   Obviously, Excel is installed.   Thanks, Rich  

Has anyone tried to use IFS Trip Tracker app with Lite user licence ? I tried Trip Tracker app with LTU_HR_SELF_SERVICE  permission set but no success yet. LTU_HR_SELF_SERVICE permission set has access to the same functionality on IEE client but seems Touch app needs more. Thanks.    

Apps 10. When user swiped they card on Time Clock machine they received the following message: Insufficient access rights. You cannot modify Absence Registration data for employee 62905. Any ideas?

why is it that IFS isn’t offering more drop down lists default, following the many ISO agreements? for example, for people’s competencies regarding language skills, there is a standard:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages imho, this should be a standard drop down list, under Person. ...or did I not find an existing solution/list yet?

Hello,I Created a lobby for incoming birthdays for persons. I used PERS view for this with prefix &AO.So, when i testing my code sources on IFSAPP account its working good. But when i testing on normal user like (x) its not working.I approved lobby element, code source and lobby element for a dummy permission set. Then i gave this permission set to (x) user, but it did not work.So, my question is if i want to show PERS view records at normal user, is it has to be special permissions like HR manager or something?Only this view (PERS) has problems like that, the other lobbies as i created, working good for normal users.Best regards.

I would like to re-use the Employee Id.  The wrong Person Id was assigned to the Employee Id.  How can I change the existing Employee Id record  to use the correct Person Id?

We are currently in a process of evaluating whether IFS would be a good option to keep track of training and employee (annual) reviews.It would be nice to find an IFS customer who has experience using this, so our HR department could have a short talk about their feeling with this module in IFS. Filiep

Our HR team sometimes have to go in and approve the employees annual leave but it seems to be running very slow and sometimes crashes. This is happening on several PC’s. Does anyone know why this might be?