Adding Employees to an Assignment Rule

Use the following procedure to add employees to an assignment rule.

To add employees to an assignment rule

Navigate to the Administration - Assignment screen, and then the Assignment Rules List view.
In the Assignment Rules list, drill down on the assignment rule for which you want to add employees, and then click the Employee Candidates view tab.
In the Employee Candidates list, click New.
In the Add Employees dialog box, select the employees to include for this assignment rule, and then click OK.
In the new employee record, click in the available fields to enter or edit the relevant information.
If new candidates are added, then make sure that you release the assignment rules for the changes to take effect.
For more information about releasing assignment rules, see Releasing Assignment Rules.
Note: If the All People value is selected in the Person Candidates Source field for the assignment rule, then all candidates are evaluated even if they are not listed in the Employee Candidates list or the Position Candidates list. Any new candidate is only evaluated only after the rules are released.

The following table shows select predefined fields available for editing.

Field	Description
Activation	Start date of the assignment rule employee. Note: By default, Siebel Business Applications use Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). For more information, see Siebel Global Deployment Guide.
Expiration	End date of the assignment rule employee. Note: By default, Siebel Business Applications use Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). For more information, see Siebel Global Deployment Guide.
Score	An initial score for each employee is permitted in this field to differentiate between other employees for potential assignment.

Field

Description

Activation

Start date of the assignment rule employee.

Note: By default, Siebel Business Applications use Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). For more information, see Siebel Global Deployment Guide.

Expiration

End date of the assignment rule employee.

Note: By default, Siebel Business Applications use Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). For more information, see Siebel Global Deployment Guide.

Score

An initial score for each employee is permitted in this field to differentiate between other employees for potential assignment.

Note: For assignment purposes, an employee's organization is the organization corresponding to the employee's primary position. For example, if Employee A holds Position A, where Position A is in the Sales East organization, then Employee A's organization is the Sales East organization.