Creating Sub Departments

Overview

Sub Departments are used throughout strokeone, e.g. for further classifying an employees functional area in their Staff Detail record

As the name implies, Sub-department records are linked to Department records, which therefore need to exist prior to creating the sub-department record.

Additionally, sub-departments are often contextually selected. That is, their parent department is first selected, which then looks up the applicable sub department records.

About this Topic

This topic outlines the steps necessary to create sub-departments that can be used within strokeone.

Prerequisites

Ensure that you have logged onto strokeone, and that you can see and access the Settings button in strokeone's home banner.

Procedure

From the home banner, click the Settings and then System Preferences buttons.
In the Preferences layout, ensure you click the HR tab(1), and from within that, the Sub Department (2) tab.
The Sub Department tab shows all existing sub departments defined in strokeone, together with the parent Department to which they are linked..
To create a new sub department, click on the new record icon in the upper right of the main pane in the layout.
This causes a new sub department record to be inserted into the table.

Populate the new record as follows:-

Field	Comments	Field Type
ID	Unique, internally generated sequence number for the record.	Sequence Number
Sub Department	Change this from New Sub Department to the name for the new department	Alpha-numeric
Department	Select a Parent department to which this Sub Department is associated.	Alpha-numeric
Default ipad Layout	Dev: To define - what does this do ?
Default Pro Layout	Dev: To define - what does this do ?

Once added,. the sub-department is available to be selected in staff detail layout, and various layouts throughout strokeone.