Note: Publishing a compensation cycle creates a snapshot of the employee data. Any changes to employee data after publishing aren't reflected in the manager worksheets, with the exceptions of performance ratings, attendance records, and unexplained absences.
When you publish a compensation cycle, the associated worksheets are available to administrators in Compensation Cycle Administration and assigned managers in Compensation.
Managers can view the details of their assigned worksheets but they must wait until the configured start date to allocate their budget. If possible, you should publish the cycle well before the allocation start date to give managers time to review the worksheet and inform you of any issues (for example, missing employees) before the start of the allocation period. This allows you to unpublish the cycle, fix the issues, and then republish without interrupting the cycle.
Administrators can monitor the cycle’s progress, modify the organization and budgets, as well as lock, approve, and post to HR or Payroll.
Dayforce shows all warnings and errors in the Problems panel. Before you can publish the cycle, you must resolve these existing errors. You can export the list to make it more manageable. Click the down arrow in the Problems panel, and select Export:
Dayforce generates a spreadsheet listing all of the issues in the compensation cycle.
When all of the errors are resolved, click Publish in the toolstrip. Dayforce publishes the compensation cycle and sends a notification to all affected administrators and managers informing them that the worksheet is now available for review, and that they can begin allocating their budget on the configured allocation date. Further, Dayforce shows the published icon (
) next to the cycle’s name in the compensation cycle. You can click Unpublish at any time to unpublish the compensation cycle and update the details of the cycle.
Important: When you unpublish a cycle, any allocations completed in the worksheets are lost.
If the cycle includes one or more hourly employees whose pay rates are determined by a scheduled background job (for example, Base Rate Recalc), Dayforce shows a warning message when you publish, indicating that the manager allocations associated with the compensation cycle might be overridden by the scheduled background job.