You can process actions with future effective dates to prepare RPAs in advance. A future action is an RPA that has an effective date later than the current date. In practice, it is usually an action with an effective date later than current pay period.

Use the Submit Requests window.

   To process a future action:

1. Initiate an action and enter an effective date later than the current date.

   Until you enter an effective date, the application populates the RPA with information based on the current date. Prior to entering the effective date, you can view information for a later or earlier date by date tracking the RPA.

2. Process the action as you would any other RPA completing, approving, and updating the action.

   See: Processing a Request for Personnel Action

   When the application runs the Process Future Dated RPA concurrent process for the action's effective date, the application reapplies CPDF edits to validate the information contained in the RPA. After the application updates the database with that day's actions, you can print the Notification of Personnel Action from the Concurrent Manager

   See: Setting the Frequency for Processing Future Dated Actions