Activating and deactivating assignments

If an assignment is active for an employee, the employee is authorized to work the assignment and can be scheduled for the assignment. If an assignment is not active, the employee is not authorized to work and cannot be scheduled for the assignment.

To activate or deactivate an assignment for an employee:

1. In the upper-left corner of the screen, select Access your applications (  ).
   The menu expands.

2. Select Administration > Employee Maintenance.
   The Employee Maintenance screen appears in a new tab.

3. In the employee pane, select the employee you want to edit.
   For information about filtering the employee list, see Sorting and filtering employees in Employee Maintenance
   The General tab updates with information for the selected employee.

4. Select the Assignments tab. 

   Click here for field descriptions.

   Fields on the Assignments tab of the Employee Maintenance screen

   Field	Description	Notes
   Buttons
   Add Employee Assignment	Add an assignment to and employee. For more information, see Adding an assignment to an employee.
   Remove Selected Assignment	Deletes the selected assignment.	This button is available only if an assignment is selected in the table.
   Reorder	Drag the job to a new position.
   Assignment table
   Assignment	The assignment that the employee is currently authorized to work. Cross-property assignments are indicated by a property code (in parentheses) in front of the Assignment name.	Read-only.
   Order	Indicates the scheduling priority. The assignment with an Order # of 1 is the employee's home job and is considered first in the scheduling process.	Read-only.
   Rank	Employee's skill level for the assignment.	Read-only.
   Active	Check box to indicate whether the assignment is active or inactive for an employee. Selected—The assignment is active for the employee. The employee can be scheduled for the assignment. Cleared—The assignment is inactive for the employee. The employee cannot be scheduled for the assignment.

5. In the Active column of the table, do the following:

   • Select the check box for the assignment you want to activate.
     A check mark () appears in the box to indicate that the assignment is now active.
     or

   • Clear the check box for the assignment you want to deactivate.
     The check box clears () to indicate that the assignment is no longer active.