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Menu Group: File Maintenance: Payroll General Switch Maintenance
General switches as the name implies are system switches that control a pre-defined aspect within the application. Having completed your review of the Employee Profile and the EBD Profile you have seen where these switches are used. Well, we just don't seem to have enough of them. That's what we thought whenever a new switch was deemed necessary. So we thought about it and then though some more and devised a scheme that lets us add new switches without having to modify employee maintenance or EBD maintenance all the time. Now we can add switches to our hearts content without the pain of modifying programs. To be sure, the new switch that we define will have to control something, but that logic needs to be built anyway. The bottom line is that with these general switches we no longer need only worry about the actual job that the switch must control, not the maintenance part of the switch.
One thing to remember. New switches will be added by us, you will only ever change values.
There are two types of switches, one for employees and one for EBD's. Each switch type can have ten fields, five for logical switches and five for number switches or value switches. So, in fact each switch can have up to 10 sub-switches so to speak. One of the things we want to do is define some meaningful titles to our sub-switches. That is the purpose of the following screen. In the first one we are defining a switch that will apply to EBD's. The switch description is as shown. In this case there is only one switch title. The meaning of this switch is: For a particular EBD do we include the earning associated with it in an exemption calculation. This switch will be used in the EBD General Switch Maintenance.
The next screen does the same thing only this time for an employee switch. Note that in this switch we are using 2 titles. This switch will be used in the Employee General Switch Maintenance.
Last Updated October 20, 2006