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<ManualTopic ID="/baanerp/ff/common/common_ff_people" xml:lang="en">
   <Header>
      <Title>People</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e435152">
         <Level1>Functions and features</Level1>
         <Level2>People</Level2>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e435158">
         <Level1>People</Level1>
         <Level2>functions and features</Level2>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <AimSection ID="/baanerp/bp/onlinemanual/000302#aim_people_main_tasks">
         <Paragraph> 
            <GUIRef href="/baanerp/bp" role="package">People</GUIRef> allows users to enter and process hours and expenses. The costs resulting from
		this processing are then booked to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tp" role="package">Project</GUIRef>, <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti" role="package">Manufacturing</GUIRef>, <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ts" role="package">Service</GUIRef>, and <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf" role="package">Financials</GUIRef>.</Paragraph>
         <List>
            <ListIntro>After the appropriate master data have been entered, users
		  can perform these main tasks:</ListIntro>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/bp/onlinemanual/000302#enter_hours" role="internal" Update="No">Enter hours/expenses</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/bp/onlinemanual/000302#enter_budgets" role="internal"
                     Update="No">Enter budgets (optional)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/bp/onlinemanual/000302#approve_hours" role="internal"
                     Update="No">Approve hours/expenses (optional)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/bp/onlinemanual/000302#process_hours" role="internal"
                     Update="No">Process hours/expenses</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/bp/onlinemanual/000302#update_budgets" role="internal"
                     Update="No">Update budgets with actual hours (optional)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/bp/onlinemanual/000302#archive_hours" role="internal"
                     Update="No">Archive hours/expenses</Link>
            </ListItem>
         </List>
         <Paragraph>After hours have been
		registered, they can be approved and/or processed. Actual hours can then be
		compared with budgeted hours.</Paragraph>
         <Paragraph>
            <GUIRef href="/baanerp/bp/mdm" role="module" Update="No">Master Data</GUIRef> allows you to register relevant employee information and codes to
		be used for general hours and expenses. You can also register information on
		roles, skills, rates, and surcharges that are used in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc" role="package">Common</GUIRef>.</Paragraph>
      </AimSection>
   </GeneralSection>
   <GeneralSection>
      <List>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/bp/onlinemanual/000306" role="manual">Using hours accounting</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <List>
               <ListIntro>
                  <GUIRef href="/baanerp/bp" role="package">People</GUIRef> facilitates or supports the following:</ListIntro>
               <ListItem>Quick access to and
				easy registration of hours (manually).</ListItem>
               <ListItem>Automatic
				registration of hours using <Link href="/baanerp/ti/glossary/glossary#Backflushing_ti" role="glossary">backflushing</Link>.</ListItem>
               <ListItem>Retrieving tasks
				from <Link href="/baanerp/bp/glossary/glossary#000300" role="glossary">assignments</Link>.</ListItem>
               <ListItem>Time recording.
				( <GUIRef href="/baanerp/bp/mdm/bpmdm0100m000#bpmdm000.dtrc" role="manual">Direct Time Recording</GUIRef> setting in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/bp/mdm/bpmdm0100m000" role="session">People Parameters (bpmdm0100m000)</GUIRef> session)</ListItem>
               <ListItem>Global updating of
				hours by employees or team leaders.</ListItem>
            </List>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/bp/onlinemanual/000305" role="manual">Distributing team hours</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>You can register
			 hours for a team, and thus have the hours distributed equally among the
			 individual members. You only need to enter the task, enter an hour's total or a
			 number of hours for each day, and distribute these hours.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/bp/onlinemanual/000303" role="manual">Working time schedules</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>For both a single employee and an entire team, you can
			 easily distribute actual hours for a task by generating hours lines for a
			 period range, using <Link href="/baanerp/bp/glossary/glossary#000326" role="glossary">working time schedules</Link>.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
      </List>
   </GeneralSection>
</ManualTopic>