Institution Field Descriptions

Field Name Institution Field Description
Institution Status Use to disable the Institution. Disabling an Institution immediately affects the Roster and People Filter.
Phone A field use to house a phone number at the agency level. The Outbound module could use this field to contact on-duty personnel. The Contact feature uses this field to provide this number as the Suggested Contact when personnel is on-duty.
On duty contact method When selected, the contact method provided may be used for contacting on-duty personnel instead of their personal contact methods.
 
Note: The first On-Duty Contact method the application encounters looking backwards from the Position is used as the suggested contact for contacting on-duty personnel.
Opp # A number that is used during a List sort when a Rule with Rule Type Organization Opportunity #’s is selected. The first Opportunity number the application encounters looking backward from the Position is used to sort candidates in opportunity number order using base rule type: Organization Opportunity #’s.
Account This optional field stores an account code for the selected Institution. Limit 30 characters. Limit 50 characters as of application versions 7.0.1.
Time Zone The time zone associated with the target institution. Users will see/modify all times in the time zone of their home Institution. The application will honor the time zone setting only if the target database has Institution Focus. This field is enabled when the target database has Institution Focus and the setup user has no setup filters. See Time Zone topic. As of application 7.2 the default timezone is set in System > System Information.
DST Offset The DST Offset feature keeps shift start and end times consistent when crossing a DST change. By default, when a shift crosses a DST, the system will calculate shift start and end times accordingly.
  EXAMPLE: During the spring time we lose one hour, this means a shift that runs 07:30AM to 07:30AM for 24 hours the system shows, 07:30 to 08:30 for 24 hours. Selecting, enables this offset and keeps the shift start and end times consistent, and the system shows: 07:30AM to 07:30AM for 23 hours.
Primary Language Use of this field is dependent on whether Languages are turned on by your organization in Setup > System > System Information. If enabled, select the primary language you would like the system to default to upon initial login for all users that have an active assignment in the selected Institution. This setting can be overwritten by language preferences set at the user level in My Info > General tab.
Assigned Shifts The shifts listed are accessible based on the selected institution or institutions that share the same timezone. Shifts are either manually or automatically assigned. When assigning additional shifts to the selected institution only the shifts that share the same timezone or have no institution shift assignment return in the search box.
Exclude Working Work Code Used to remove specific work codes of type Regular Duty and Working from the Multi-Day Schedule Totals and Headcount sum. The default behavior includes both Regular and Working type work codes in the calculation. Requires security permission Multi-Day Schedule: Manage and Setup: Organization to view and access this setting.
Include Non-Working Code Used to add specific work codes of type Non-Working to the Multi-Day Schedule Totals and Headcount sum. The default behavior excludes Non-Working type work codes from the calculation. Requires security permission Multi-Day Schedule: Manage and Setup: Organization to view and access this setting.
Blueprint Overlap Severity This field enables when Blueprints are turned on and used to control whether or not a blueprint can be deployed which will overlap another already deployed blueprint using the same Unit or if it should be allowed and show a warning. This field enables when Blueprints are turned on. The selected severity error message level will apply globally for every organization level below the selected Institution except for overrides set at the Unit level. If blueprint overlaps are allowed the import tool will not show a warning.
Consider Before and After Position Overlap This field enables when Blueprints are turned on. Select to include Before and After type positions on a blueprint. Clear the check box to ignore Before and After type positions on a blueprint.
First day of week default This field enables when Blueprints are turned on. Used to set the start of the week day on the Planning Board and the Staffing Board. The default is Sunday. This setting can be overwritten by user preferences via Display Settings on the Planning Board.
External ID This optional field stores additional data to be used in a data export, such as the Payroll Export, or used to hold Call Sign data via Formula IDs. Limit 40 characters.
Gray Number The application Internal ID.