General Tab of the Employees Form (Desktop)

Use the General tab in the desktop application to enter, edit, or review an employee’s profile information, including employee name, ID number, organization, title, phone numbers, and other personal information.

Contents

If you use multiple companies, the following applies:

  • The data that you enter on this tab applies to the company that the current record is associated with.
  • The tabs and fields that display are based on the company that the current record is associated with. For example, if the employee is associated with four different companies but only one company has access to Payroll, the Payroll tab of the Employees form only displays when you are viewing that company's record.
  • The values that are available in the individual fields and lookups are based on the company that the record is associated with. For example, only timesheet groups that are associated with the current company are available in the Group field on the Time tab of the Employees form.
  • If the Automatically retrieve your record in Employee Hub/Employee Review check box is selected in My Preferences in the desktop application, the employee record that automatically loads is for the home company that is associated with the current record. If the record is associated with multiple companies, the home company record displays first.
Field Description
Employee

Enter the employee's unique identification number. If automatic numbering is specified for employees on the Numbering tab of General System Settings, [AUTONUMBER] displays in this field to indicate that an employee number will be assigned automatically.

This field is active only when you click New to add a new employee record to your database. You cannot use this field to change an employee number after you have created an employee record.

You establish the length and format of your employee numbers during installation and setup. To change the length or format of your employee numbers, use the Key Conversions or Key Formats utilities.

Firm

When you select this option, the current record can be used on proposals to indicate a firm (vendor or client) that does work for your firm. The Organization field is replaced by a Firm field that you use to specify the type of relationship for the employee record. A Lookup field also displays, where you can enter the firm record related to this employee record.

If you also use Proposals, select this option to make the employee record available for use on proposals.

If you use multiple companies and you select this option:
  • For a new employee record, the employee may only be associated with one company. Selecting this option updates the employee record's Home Company field to match the active company. You cannot change this field.
  • For an existing employee record, you can only select the Firm option if the entry in the Home Company field matches the current active company.
  • For an existing employee record that is associated with more than one company, an error message displays that prompts you to remove the related company records before you can select and save the Firm option. If you are unable to remove the related company records (because postings have occurred), you cannot make the existing employee record a firm.
Talent Management User ID This field displays when Deltek is integrated with the Talent Management application. Talent Management assigns a value for this field when a new employee record is created and then sent to Deltek. For employee records created in Deltek, this field gets populated after a data run, where Deltek sends the employee record to Talent Management and Talent Management sends back the record to Deltek.
Prefix Select a salutation to use with the employee's name. You define prefix options in Code Table Settings.
First Name Enter the employee's first name. When you enter the employee's first name, Deltek searches your database to check for duplicate records.
Middle Name Enter the employee's middle name or initial.
Last Name Enter the employee's last name. When you enter the employee's last name in this field, Deltek searches your database to check for duplicate records.
Suffix Select a suffix to use with the employee's name. You define suffix options in Code Table Configuration.
Preferred Name Enter the employee's preferred name.
Title Enter or select the employee's job title or job function. You define employee title options in Code Table Configuration.
Organization / Firm

Enter the organization for which the employee works or select one from the lookup. Organizations are discrete business units within your company.

If you select the Firm option to indicate that the employee is a client or vendor, the name of this field changes to Firm and provides a lookup where you can select the firm to associate with the employee.

If you use multiple currencies, monetary amounts for each employee display in the functional currency of the employee's home company. This is determined by the organization code.

Home Company

If you use multiple companies, the home company can be thought of as the company that "owns" the employee and is their current employer. This is the company where the employee's personal information is maintained.

Each employee must have one designated home company and can also have multiple associated companies.

  • If you create a new employee, this field automatically populates based on the current active company.
  • If you open an existing employee record and want to change the home company, you can use the drop-down list for this field to select a different home company for the employee. The drop-down list only includes the active companies with which the employee is associated.

If the Firm option is selected, this field is disabled because an employee record that is marked as a firm cannot be associated with more than one company. If you attempt to select the Firm option for an employee that has more than one associated company record, an error message displays that prompts you to remove the related company records.

After you specify the employee's home company, you can associate the employee with additional companies as needed. A new record is created for each association. You can specify the employee's organization, pay rate, account, and timesheet information for each associated company. You can then process transactions and reports for each company using the appropriate organizations, pay rates, accounts, and timesheet information for the employee. The end result is that one employee may have multiple employee records in the Employees hub, but each employee will only have one home company.

Supervisor Enter the name of the employee's supervisor or select one from the lookup. When you enter an employee name in this field, Deltek creates a hyperlink between the employee name and the corresponding record.

Click the name to open the record in the current browser window or right-click the name and then click the Open in new window option to open the record in a separate browser window.

If you use and the employee named in this field is associated with multiple companies, the supervisor only applies to the company record that you are viewing. There can be a different supervisor for each associated company.

Email Enter the employee's email address in this field. After you do so, you can click the email address to open your default email application and send an email to the employee. When you enter the employee's email address in this field, Deltek searches your database to check for duplicate records.

To edit an employee's email address, right-click the email address and click Edit or click in this field.

Work Phone Enter the employee's work telephone number. Your system administrator defines the format for phone numbers. You can select a different format.
Ext Enter the extension for the employee's work telephone number.
Mobile Phone Enter the employee's mobile telephone number. Your system administrator defines the format for phone numbers.
Fax Enter the employee's fax number.
Hire Date Specify the employee's hire date.
Status Select the employee's status. An employee's status determines the validity of certain employee-related transactions. The status settings are:
  • Active: You can complete any valid transaction that requires an employee number.
  • Inactive: A warning displays if you try to use the employee number in any transaction that requires an employee number. You must explicitly choose to proceed with the transaction after you receive the warning.
  • Terminated: You cannot use the employee number in any transaction that requires an employee number. However, you can still print reports and W-2 forms for the employee.

If you use multiple companies and associate an employee with multiple company records, each company record may have a different status for the employee. For example, one associated company may have an employee's status as Active because the employee is currently working for them, but another associated company may have a Terminated status because the employee is no longer employed by them.

Years with Other Firms Enter the number of years the employee worked for other firms.
Prior Years with This Firm Enter the number of years the employee has worked for your enterprise.
Available for CRM users This option displays if you use both CRM and Accounting. Select this option to allow CRM users to open and review the employee record. You can select or clear this option at any time.
Available to accounting users

This option displays if you use both CRM and Accounting. Select this option to allow Accounting users to open and review the employee record. You can select this option at any time. However, you can clear this option only if the Approved for use in Processing option is not selected.

If this option is selected when you save a new employee record, you are prompted to enter required information on the Accounting, Time, and Expense tabs of the Employees form. You must enter the required information before you can save the record.

Approved for use in processing

This option displays if you use Accounting. Select this option if the employee record is approved for use when processing accounting transactions. This option is selected by default when an Accounting user adds a new employee record. It is disabled for all other users. If you are an Accounting user, you can select this option at any time. However, you can clear this option only if the employee record was not used in any accounting transactions.

If you select this option when you save a new employee record, you are prompted to enter required information on the Accounting, Time, and Expense tabs of the Employees form. You must enter the required information before you can save the record.

If you use Payroll and you do not select this option, the employee is excluded from Automatic Payroll Processing runs.

Language If you use multiple languages this option displays. Select the appropriate language to use when sending workflow and alert messages. This drop-down list contains all languages that are enabled in Module Activation. The options that display depend on the language of the current user.