Symptom
When hiring a new employee, you only expect the organizational units which are marked as Reporting Line Unit to be proposed for the organizational assignment of the new employee. However, the system displays all the organizational units present in the system, hence all of them are available for selection.
Reproducing the Issue
- Navigate to the Personnel Administration work center.
- Select the Regular Tasks view.
- Click Hire Employee.
- Maintain the mandatory data in the first step - Enter Personal Data.
- Click Next.
- Open the value help of the Organizational Unit field.
All the organizational units from the system appear as available for selection, nevertheless you expect only the reporting line units to be displayed.
Cause
The systems behaves as expected. An employee can be assigned to any organizational unit, but not only to reporting line unit. If you want only the reporting line units to be displayed, you can use the advanced search.
Resolution
- Navigate to the Personnel Administration work center.
- Select the Regular Tasks view.
- Click Hire Employee.
- Maintain the mandatory data in the first step - Enter Personal Data.
- Click Next.
- Open the value help of the Organizational Unit field.
- Click Advanced.
- Select the value Reporting Line Unit from the Definitions drop-down menu.
- Click Go - only the reporting line units will be displayed.
Keywords
KBA , SRD-MD-OM , Organizational Management , How To