Person Identifiers for External Applications

A person identifier captures third-party payroll identifier or the time device badge identifier details from an external application for a person or an assignment.

You can configure person identifiers to capture additional information, for example, to track a person's parking pass identifier, or track a person's previous Human Resources system person identifier. You add, modify and delete person identifiers using the Person Identifiers for External Applications task in My Team and My Client Groups tabs.

It is optional whether you want to associate a person identifier with an assignment because the person may have only one identifier in an external application. For example, a company assigns a badge to a person that grants access to all the company's buildings. The person may have multiple assignments in the organization, but have only one badge and one number in the building access system.

You can assign the same person identifier and identifier type only to one person at a time. This is because of integration with time clocks and to avoid the same identifier being assigned to more than one person at a time simultaneously. If you want to assign the same identifier to two people, then you have to specify an end date for the identifier for the first person before assigning it to the second person.