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Background
Time valuations generate time valuation results, which provide the basis upon which employees are paid for the time they record. But not all recorded time is paid out immediately. Sometimes the employee works more, sometimes less than the Planned Working Time. For storing this information, a 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 (WTA) is used. As you can imagine, the WTA moves up and down according to the actual working time. It should be more or less around Zero, but in the reality, it is not.
When the 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 or low, the Employee, Manager and Time Admin must be aware about it to react. For this purpose, Warning messages or alerts are raised in time sheet.
The 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 is, that there are 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝𝐬, that must be considered. Most likely, at least for Germany, the Time Sheet is Monthly like the Payroll. There are daily limits that shall not be exceeded (e.g. 10 hours for common employees, 8 hours for underage). There are weekly limits, that shall not be exceeded in the long run (e.g. 48 hours). And the Working Time Account, that is configured Permanent. To bring this different period together, Time Containers are used.
Currently the maximum duration of Period Results is
