Retropay by element....Right or Wrong

Question

Dear All
Need some guidance and confirmation on retro pay steps
I have tried to run retro pay.
I followed setting up Retro Pay notifications Report document first as it was given in user guide. After that i setup retro pay by element.
here are the steps.
1. I introduced and employee on 1 jan 2009 and gave him cola allowance (Rs 100) with rest of the allowances and salary.
2. I run payroll for Jan 2009.
3. I run payroll for Feb 2009.
4. In March i decided to change the amount of Cola allowance from Rs. 100 to 200. so started to setup retropay.
5. I created an element for cola_allow_arrears.
6. I linked the element with employee to whom i require to give arrears.
7. I created balance for this element name MJ_cola_arrears_balance with its dimension and Feed. (Add).
8. I defined Retropay Set.
9. I defined Assignment set including employee who is being given the arrears.
10. I date tracked from Mar to 01-jan-2009 and change Cola allowance value from Rs. 100 to 200 in element entry form of that employee and saved the record.
11. I run Retropay request with date parameters stared from 01-jan-2009 to 31-mar-2009. and request run successfully.
12. I tried to look out put but it did not give any out put to me
13. I looked Log file and showed successfull request and counts.
14. Now I run the payroll for the month of March. It run the payroll successfully but did not show any arrears as i did not selected arrears element of Cola allowance.
First are my steps correct..?
How and where can we confirm the changes of arrears..?
Hope to here reply soon
Regards
Majid

Answer 1

I have checked the Income tax balance that adds up the earnings elements in the feeds now in that i came to see the Earnings called COLA that shows the equivalent figure. But this Earning was only eligible up to June 09 and the retro has ran for Jan 09 to June which means in July09 there should be no COLA allowance...i am a bit confused.
Please help.