Effective Dating

Effective dating allows you to track changes over time that impact both incentive calculations and reporting. For example, a person’s earnings can change in the middle of the month, or the person’s Position in the company might change due to a promotion
or other change of job.

By allowing you to add new versions of People, Positions, Hierarchy, and Named Relationship objects, effective dating lets you respond to these typical changes and precisely compensate a person as their situation changes.

Effective dating affects how you use different areas of Incent, which is described in the following sections:

• Object Interdependencies
• Using Versions
• Using Basic and Advanced Searches
• Viewing Effective-Dated Object Information
• How Effective Dating Affects Calculation