Departments - Adding, Editing and Deactivating
Viewing, Deactivating & Activating
Within the Admin Department page, you can view any previously created departments, along with their status.
- To search for a department, click in the search bar at the top of the page and start to type, any departments matching what you have typed will be returned as you type
- To deactivate a department, click on the red power button on the right hand side of the department as shown in the image below
- To activate a department, click on the green power button on the right hand side of the department
- To edit a department, click on the blue pencil as shown in the image below
- To add a Department, click on "Add Department" at the top right hand side of the page
NOTE - Any departments deactivated which are already assigned to a user will stay linked but will not be allowed to be used for any future edits or new users added to the system.
Adding / Editing
When adding or editing a department you can:
- Provide a name
- Enable Multi-Stage approval - See this guide for more information
- Assign an approver or approvers - The user who will approve or reject any leave that requires approval
- Enter a Leave Allowance - This is an optional overriding field, if it's not provided then it will adopt the company's default leave setup on the company settings page. See the dedicated guide about overriding allowance here
- Maximum people absent - This is an optional field, which when enabled will limit the amount of people who can be absent at any point in time within the department
- Maximum absence length - This is an optional field, which when enabled will limit the amount of time a user can book deductible leave for consecutively
- Enable and configure a custom work schedule (editing only) - this is optional, you can read more about this feature here
