Adding an assignment to an employee

Note: Assignments must be configured before you can add an assignment to an employee. For more information, see Labor Structure.

To add an assignment to 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. Select Add Employee Assignment.
   The Add Employee Assignments dialog box appears.
   

   Click here for field descriptions.

   Fields on the Add Employee Assignment dialog box for the Assignments tab

   Field	Description
   Info	Hover the mouse pointer over the icon to display a tooltip about selecting multiple assignments.
   Search	Type the text you want to search for. As you type your search criteria in the field, the assignment list updates based on your entry.
   Assignment list	Select one or more assignments to be added to the employee record.
   Rank	Set the priority order for the assignment.
   Cancel	Closes the dialog box without applying your changes.
   OK	Applies your changes and closes the dialog box.

6. Select one or multiple assignments from the list.

7. In the Rank field, select a number to apply a priority to the selected assignment(s).

8. Select OK.
   The dialog box closes, and the assignments are added to the Assignments tab.