Employees Overview Tab
On this tab in the Employees hub, you enter, edit, and view an employee's information.
After you click the add record option on the form to add a new record to the hub, enter information in the fields on this tab and click Save. To edit information on this tab after you save a new record, hover over a field name and enter or select a new value or use the edit dialog box to make changes. After the appropriate fields update, save the record. Some fields, such as calculated fields, cannot be edited.
The field descriptions in this topic describe how to enter information for a new record.
Name and Background
Field | Description |
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First Name | Enter the employee's first name. |
Middle Name | Enter the employee's middle name or initial. |
Last Name | Enter the employee's last name. |
Preferred Name | Enter the employee's preferred name. |
Salutation | Select the salutation for an employee, such as Mr., Mrs., and so on. |
Suffix | Select the suffix, such as Sr. or Jr., to use with the employee's name. Your system administrator defines the list of suffixes in . |
Professional Suffix | Enter the professional suffix to use with the employee's name, such as CPA. |
Full Name | This field displays after you initially enter an employee and save the employee record. This is the employee's full name, including their salutation, preferred name (if one is entered; if not, the first name is used), middle name, last name, suffix, professional suffix, and title. |
Firm |
Select this checkbox to specify that the employee is a firm and does not work for your enterprise. Selecting this checkbox allows the employee record to be used for proposals. This checkbox displays if you use Vantagepoint CRM. You cannot select the Firm checkbox if the Approve for Use in Processing checkbox on the Accounting tab of the Employees form is selected for the employee. When you select the Firm checkbox, the following apply:
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Talent Management User ID | This field displays when Vantagepoint is integrated with the Talent Management application and a Talent Management User ID has been populated by the integration. Talent Management assigns a value for this field when the Vantagepoint employee record is synchronized with the Talent Management user record. |
Employee Information
Field | Description |
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Previous Years With This Firm | Enter the number of years that the employee previously worked for your company if the employee worked for your company, then left, and was rehired. This is the previous number of years that they worked for your company prior to the date that you enter in the Hire Date field. |
Total Years With This Firm | This is a calculation of the total number of years that the employee has worked for this firm:
(Number of years between the Hire Date and Termination Date) + (Previous Years With This Firm). |
Years With Other Firms | Enter the number of years that the employee worked for other companies. |
Total Years Experience | This is a calculation of the total number of years of experience that the employee has at your company plus other companies:
(Total Years With This Firm +Years With Other Firms). |
Available To | This fdisplays if you have both the Accounting and CRM modules.
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Language | Use this field to select a language to be used in workflow alert or email messages that are configured with a specific language. If a workflow is not configured with a specific language, the workflow alert message is sent without regard to the language specified in this field. Therefore, if you use only one language in your database, you can leave this field empty and configure your workflows with no language specified.
You configure all workflows except those for approvals in or .You configure approval workflows in the desktop application, in . |