There are three uses of assignment sets in Oracle HRMS:
You can run a QuickPaint report for a set of assignments, rather than individual assignments.
You can process subsets of the employees assigned to a payroll. Normally you initiate payroll runs and other post-run processes for one or more payrolls at a time. However, if you need to process smaller groups within a single payroll, you define an assignment set.
You can use a BEE concurrent process to create an identical batch line for each assignment in an assignment set.
There are three ways to define the set:
You can enter selection criteria, which the system generates into a formula. When you use the assignment set, Oracle FastFormula runs the formula to find the assignments that match the criteria. It checks all the assignments in the business group or, if you select a payroll when you define the set, all the assignments to that payroll. When you define the set you can also include or exclude individual assignments to modify the set created by the formula.
Attention: To define an assignment set for a benefits eligibility profile, you must enter information about the person to be included or excluded in both the Amendment and Criteria windows.
You can select individually all the assignments you want to include in the set.
You can start from a full set of all the employees in the Business Group or all the employees assigned to a selected payroll. Then you can exclude individual assignments from the set.
See: Defining an Assignment Set by Including or Excluding Assignments