Why are some values completed automatically when I create assignments?

If you use positions, the selected position supplies the following values automatically: job, department, location, grade, ceiling step, payroll, salary basis, probation period, manager, working hours, working-hours frequency, start time, and end time.

If you don't use positions, these things happen:

• The location is inherited from the department.

• The standard working hours, working hours, and working-hours frequency are inherited from the department, legal employer, or enterprise. Values specified for the department override those specified for the legal employer, and values specified for the legal employer override those specified for the enterprise.

If you edit the source attributes of inherited values (for example, you update the salary basis of a position), the changes don't copy automatically to the assignments. However, you can edit the inherited values to match the updated source attributes.

If you change the business unit on assignments, the organization, job, position, grade, and job values are automatically set to null.