Employee Category Field Descriptions

Field Name Field Description
Add Used to create n employee category.
Edit Used to modify an employee category.
Delete Used to delete an employee category.
Audit Used to audit employee category activity in this area.
Gear Icon Used to show or hide disabled employee categories.
Search Used to quickly find and limit to an employee category.
Name The name of the employee category. Typically concise, see description for details.
Description The purpose of the employee category.

Add or Edit Employee Category Field Descriptions

*An ASTERISK denotes a required label in the table below.
Field Name Field Description
Category Status Used to inactivate (disable) or activate (enable) the selected employee category.
*Name The label used to identify this employee category. Labels should be concise but meaningful. Reason being, the name will be merged with other categories to build a tag reference. Use the description area to provide additional details for future reference.
Description Since the Name field should be as concise as possible yet meaningful, this description text box is used to note the purpose of the employee category for reference.
Short Name An Employee Category in Dimensions may contain an overriding name (alias) that allows a short name to be assigned. The employee category short name is used to derive the tag rather than the full name for customer’s using PAY RULE STARTS WITH in Dimensions to organize multiple pay rules down one path. Max: 20 Characters. Display output:
  • Name if there is no overriding name
  • Short Name (Alias) if there was an overriding name

Available as of application version 7.0.2.

External ID This optional field stores reference data that identifies the selected employee category in an external application.

IMPORTANT: Customers using Dimensions will see the Dimensions reference number for the selected job. Do not edit the external ID in this application doing so will create undesirable synchronization issues.