Department (Deprecated)
A sample Department Edit view is shown below:
Overview of Departments.
Screenshot of individual Department Edit page.
Each field on this record is described below. Mandatory fields are highlighted thus.
Field | Description |
Department Name | The department name is alphanumeric (30 characters max) and must be unique. |
Description | A description of the department. |
Department Code | The department name is alphanumeric (30 characters max) and must be unique. |
Higher Department | The parent department in a hierarchical structure. |
You can add people to departments (or remove them) and optionally assign a seniority level - 0 (low) to 10 (high) - to people.
Departments are used when defining transition permissions (typically for Expense Claim and Timesheet documents - but could be used for others). If you want to analyse transactions by department see Reference > Lookup Values.
Department Hierarchy & Seniority
Dept Hierarchy - Approver can only approve in their own department and in sub-department but cannot do both or in sub-sub departments as the permissions would contradict each other. The user can only be in one department to allow for approval.
Seniority - Can approve users who has the same seniority as theirs or below in hierarchy but not above. The user who has authority to approve will have to have the Approval Permission added to their role.