Employee Schedules

We are looking at setting up employee schedules as we are making a major change to employee self service.  We have never used employee schedules before.  We have some set up and have successfully attached them to employee groups, etc.  When we ran the generate timecards process the timecards were created and show up in the F06116Z1 and are viewable in self service P051127 Daily Time Entry.  They have no status though so can only be saved/submitted when a change has been made.  Can this process be set up so the records are created with a Saved status so the