About Cluster tables

Hi SAP gurus,
Can I get any documentation regarding how these cluster tables are filled when payroll is executed
means how RT WBBP all these will get filled
Thanks in advance
Regards,
Satya

Hi Pavan,
Work Center/Basic Pay Table (WPBP):
Table WPBP is filled by the infotypes Actions (0000), Organizational Assignment (0001), Planned Working Time (0007), Basic Pay (0008), and Cost Distribution (0027). It contains important organizational and payment-relevant data, and different partial period parameters.
These organizational elements are used in the wage and salary payments process (dependent on Customizing) to determine the house bank and the house bank account.
Furthermore, the system uses the Work Center/Basic Pay table (WPBP) to determine the paying company code. Specification of the paying company code is optional in Customizing. If you have not specified a paying company code in Customizing, the system uses the company code that is stored in the Work Center/Basic Pay table (WPBP) in the employee's payroll results. If the Work Center/Basic Pay (WPBP) table for the employee contains several partial periods as the result of a WPBP Split, in the payroll period to be processed, the system uses the company code in the last partial period, in which the employee was active, to determine the paying company code.The information used to form the partial period parameter comes from the personal work schedule for an employee and from the constant values stored in table T511K.
RT Table:
Table RT contains the result wage types of the current period for which payroll is run. Data is transferred from table IT to table RT using the operation ADDWTE.
This operation is speicifed in the Personnel calculation Rules of the country specific Payroll schema.
Regards,
Suresh Datti

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A pooled table in R/3 has a many-to-one relationship with a table in the database (see Figures 3.1 and 3.2). For one table in the database, there are many tables in the R/3 Data Dictionary. The table in the database has a different name than the tables in the DDIC, it has a different number of fields, and the fields have different names as well. Pooled tables are an SAP proprietary construct.
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A table cluster is similar to a table pool. It holds many tables within it. The tables it holds are all cluster tables.
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/81/415d363640933fe10000009b38f839/frameset.htm
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Jyothsna,
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Figure 1     Structure of table PCL1
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