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  • 1 Introduction to Global Human Resources
    • Overview of Using Global Human Resources
    • Quick Actions
    • FAQs
      • Why can't I see some quick actions on landing pages after an upgrade?
  • 2 Users and Roles
    • User Management
      • How You Manage an Incomplete Request for an HCM User Account
      • User Names
      • FAQs for User Management
        • What happens if I reset a user's password?
        • How can I reset a user's password?
        • How can I notify users of their user names and passwords?
        • Where do default user names come from?
        • What happens when I link a user account?
        • How can I create a user account for an existing worker?
        • What happens if I edit a user name?
        • What happens when I copy personal data to Identity Store?
        • Why does this worker have no user account?
    • Role Management
      • Role Provisioning and Deprovisioning
      • FAQs for Role Management
        • What's the provisioning method?
        • Why did some roles appear automatically?
        • Why can't I see the roles that I want to assign to a user?
        • Why can't I see the roles that I want to request for myself?
        • What happens if I deprovision a role from a user?
        • Why is the user losing roles automatically?
        • What happens when I autoprovision roles for a user?
        • What happens if I delegate a role?
        • Can I delegate any role?
        • What happens if I delegate approvals?
        • What's a delegated role?
  • 3 Departments, Divisions, Organizations, Locations, and Worker Unions
    • Overview of Workforce Structures
    • List of Values in Workforce Structures
    • Departments, Divisions, and Organizations
      • Guidelines for Using Single or Multiple Classifications for an Organization
      • How You Configure Your Enterprise Structure After an Acquisition
      • Divisions
      • Example of Adding a New Division After Acquiring a Company
      • Departments
      • How You Create a Chart of Account to Create a Department
      • Cost Centers and Departments
      • Department Classifications
      • How You Configure the Department Title
      • Associate Legal Employers with a Department
      • Disability Organizations
      • Departments Search
      • HCM Trees
      • FAQs for Departments, Divisions, and Organizations
        • What's a reporting establishment?
        • How do I create a disability organization?
        • What's the difference between department name and title?
        • Can I delete an organization?
        • How can I identify my organization in a report?
        • What's the purpose of the legislative action attributes?
        • Can I change the set of a department, location, job, or grade?
        • What's business unit and set partitioning?
    • Locations
      • Locations
      • Locations Search
      • Associate Legal Employers with Locations
      • FAQs for Locations
        • Why can't I see my location in the search results?
        • How can I associate a location with an inventory organization?
        • What happens if I select an inventory organization when I am creating or editing a location?
        • What happens if I select a geographic hierarchy node when I create or edit a location?
        • What happens if I inactivate a location?
    • Worker Unions
      • Worker Union Management
  • 4 Jobs and Positions
    • Jobs
    • Examples of Jobs
    • Examples of Positions
    • Considerations for Using Jobs and Positions
    • Job and Position Structures
    • Scheduling Group Attribute for Jobs
    • Associate Legal Employers with a Job
    • Workforce Structures Code Generation Methods
    • View Details of Associated Profiles and Open Profiles Pages from Redwood Job or Position Pages
    • Create a Position Profile
    • Associate Action Reasons in Position with Role
    • How FTE is Calculated in Positions
    • Work Hours and Duration
    • Workday Information Defaults
    • How You Match Position Valid Grades with Job Grades
    • Position Budgeting
    • Position Costing for Redwood Positions Pages
    • Position Synchronization
    • Set Up Position Synchronization
    • How Assignment Values Are Inherited from Position
    • How Position Synchronization Impacts Assignments
    • Business Unit and Position in When and Why
    • Position Override in Redwood Employment Processes
    • Behavior of Position Override
    • Synchronize Assignment Action Reason From Position
    • Example of Action Reason Synchronization in Assignments
    • Synchronize Assignment Flexfields From Position Flexfields
    • Considerations for Flexfield Mapping in Position Synchronization
    • Synchronize Person Assignment from Position Process
    • HCM Position Hierarchy
    • Graphical Position Hierarchy
    • How You Create a Graphical Position Hierarchy
    • Parent Position Isn’t Defaulted for Professional Users
    • Considerations for Using Position or Position Hierarchy for Synchronizing Assignment Manager
    • Filter Managers Using Parent Position Hierarchy
    • How You Route Position Approvals
    • Jobs Search
    • Positions Search
    • Upload Workforce Structures Using a Spreadsheet
    • FAQs for Jobs and Positions
      • What's the difference between a job set and a job family?
      • Why can't I see the position code for the new position?
      • When can I enable position synchronization?
      • What happens if I specify a parent position?
      • What happens if I specify the standard working hours in a position?
      • What happens when grades are synchronized?
      • How can I exclude some assignments from position synchronization?
      • How do I override position synchronization at the attribute level?
      • What happens if I select Synchronize Mapped Flexfields?
      • Are converted pending workers displayed as incumbents in the Position Details page?
  • 5 Grades
    • Grades, Grade Rates, and Grade Ladders
  • 6 Person Information
    • Person Records
      • Person Records
      • Examples of Person Records
      • Person Names and Languages
      • Person Identifiers for External Applications
      • Which person data can I delete?
      • Delete a Person's Compensation and Benefits Data
      • How You Delete a Person's Employment Data
      • Delete Person Number
      • Can I delete a person's mailing address?
      • FAQs for Person Records
        • What's the difference between global names and local names?
        • What happens if I change the local-name language of a person's name?
        • What's the effective start date?
        • What's the primary mailing address?
    • Personal Information
      • Reviewing Your Personal Information
        • Review Your Personal Information
      • Change Your Photo
      • Disability Disclosure
      • How You Manage Contacts
      • How You Add Document Records for Contacts
      • Contact Start Date Changes
      • How You Share Data Access With Another Person
      • Approval Rules for Share Data Access
      • Bulk Revoke of Share Data Access
      • How National Identifiers are Validated
      • How Person Addresses Are Validated
      • Comparing Items
      • FAQs for Personal Information
        • Can I add additional data sets to the comparison?
        • Can I compare all of the person's assignments?
        • How are the differences between comparison attributes identified?
        • How is risk of loss assessed?
        • What happens if I remove the comparison base?
        • What's the difference between performing a best-fit analysis and comparing profiles?
        • Can I delete a person record?
        • Can I add multiple national identifiers of the same type for a country?
        • Why can't I see my passport document in the Passports section?
        • How can I designate a contact as a statutory dependent?
        • What's a disability disclosure?
        • Why can't a line manager who’s rehiring see the person's existing home address?
  • 7 Employment Information
    • List of Values in Employment Processes
    • Assignments
      • Work Relationships
      • Worker Numbers
      • Cancel Work Relationships
      • Assignments
      • Employment Primary Status Attributes
      • Change Indicator for Primary Attributes in Employment
      • Examples of Creating Multiple Work Relationships for a Person
      • Work Measures
        • Full Time Equivalent (FTE)
        • Adjusted FTE
        • Example of Standard Annual Working Duration and Annual Working Duration Defaulting in Assignment
        • Headcount
        • Automatic Calculation of FTE and Headcount
      • Weekly Working Hours for Assignments
      • Assignment Attributes Based on Change Assignment Action
      • Business Title Defaulting for Assignment in Employment Flows
      • Assignment Notes in Redwood Update Employment Processes
      • The Manager Hierarchy: How It's Maintained
      • Matrix Manager for an Assignment
      • Examples of Multiple Managers for an Assignment
      • How Line Managers Are Synchronized Using Position Hierarchy
      • Filter Locations Based on Legal Employers
      • Filter Business Units Based on Legal Employers
      • Filter Locations Based on Employee Location
      • View and Manage Your Employment Information
      • FAQs for Assignments
        • What happens if I change a person's primary work relationship?
        • Can I add matrix managers when I'm using position synchronization?
        • Where do person types come from?
        • How can I create an assignment if the person type I need isn't in the list?
        • Can I end the only assignment in a work relationship?
        • Can I end a primary assignment if there are other nonprimary assignments in the same work relationship?
        • Can I end an assignment one day before the second assignment starts?
        • What happens to the manager relationship when I end an assignment or terminate a work relationship?
        • What happens when I select a different line manager for an assignment?
        • Why are some values completed automatically when I create assignments?
        • How can I access inactive assignments?
        • Can I use eligible jobs instead of adding an assignment?
        • How can I update the location from the Change Location page when position synchronization is enabled?
        • How is the before and after assignment data displayed for transactions in the employment details page?
        • Is the source work relationship impacted when you cancel the work relationship created by a global transfer or global temporary assignment?
        • Is the source work relationship impacted when you reverse terminate a work relationship that was terminated using the End Global Temporary Assignment action?
        • Is the source assignment impacted when you delete the End Temporary Assignment record from the destination assignment?
        • Can I initiate an assignment change when another employment transaction is pending approval?
    • Employment Dates
      • Change Employment Start Dates
      • Change Start Dates for Employment Transactions
      • Examples of Start Date Changes When Assignment Changes Exist
      • Examples of Start Date Changes When Work Relationship Changes Exist
      • Examples of Start Date Changes for Employment Work Relationship Created from Pending Worker Work Relationship
      • Examples of Start Date Changes for Converted Pending Worker Work Relationship
      • Retain Your Employment Changes While Changing the Effective Date
      • Examples of Retaining Your Employment Changes While Changing the Effective Date
      • Control Default of Effective Start Date in Employment Flows
      • How You Validate a Worker’s Salary when the Hire Date is Changed
      • FAQs for Employment Dates
        • How can I correct the start date of an assignment or temporary assignment that I added?
        • How can I correct or delete a date-effective assignment record using the responsive UI?
        • How can I correct the start dates of assignment-related transactions?
        • How can I correct the global transfer and global temporary assignment start dates?
    • Eligible Jobs
      • Overview of Eligible Jobs
      • Considerations for Adding Eligible Jobs
  • 8 Areas of Responsibility
    • How You Assign Areas of Responsibility
    • Autoprovision Areas of Responsibilities
    • Areas of Responsibility Integration with Work Contacts
    • Examples of Setting Scope of Responsibility
    • Areas of Responsibility Templates
    • FAQs for Areas of Responsibility
      • What happens if I don't record a person's areas of responsibility?
      • What happens if I reassign a responsibility?
      • What's the recruiting responsibility type?
      • What is the naming convention I see in the responsibility name when I create and assign a responsibility from a template?
      • How do I add or change a responsibility type?
  • 9 Hire and Manage Workers
    • Overview of the Workforce Lifecycle
    • Employment Processes
    • Hire People
      • When to Create Person Records
      • Rehire a Worker
      • Hiring an Employee
        • Hire an Employee
      • How You Create a Work Email
      • How You Specify Work Phones
      • Contact Relationship Start Date Changes
      • How You Convert Pending Workers
      • Automatic Conversion of Pending Workers
      • Examples of Creating Multiple Work Relationships for a Person
      • How You Default the Manager in Hire and Create Work Relationship Flows
      • Worker Types
      • How Person Records Are Matched
      • Examples of Employment Information for Nonworkers
      • FAQs for Hire People
        • How can I create a user account for a new worker?
        • What's a pending worker?
        • Can I enter more information about an emergency contact?
        • How can I create other types of contacts for a person?
        • How can I create multiple nonworker roles for a person?
        • Why can't I see the person number for this new person record?
        • Why can't I see the current manager when I am adding a person as a direct report?
    • Promote and Transfer People
      • Promoting People
        • Example of a Worker Promotion
        • Example of a Worker Promotion with Position Change in Redwood
      • Promote Actions
      • Transfer Actions
      • Local and Global Transfer
      • Data Copy and Display Options for Local and Global Transfer
      • Mass Legal Employer Change
      • Dashboard for Legal Employer Change
      • Process to Link Source and Destination Assignments for Global Transfer
      • Transferring People
        • Example of a Worker Transfer
      • FAQs for Transfers
        • Can I transfer people if I don't have access to all of their assignments?
        • Does a person automatically move to another payroll during a global transfer?
        • Can I use the Global Transfer action for a person with a future termination date?
        • Can I do a global transfer for a suspended assignment?
        • Can I use the Global Transfer action for a person having a future global transfer or global temporary assignment?
        • Can I do a global transfer for an assignment from where the global temporary assignment was initiated or which was created as part of the global temporary assignment?
        • Can I terminate a work relationship with an active global temporary assignment?
        • How can I correct the global transfer and global temporary assignment start dates?
    • Employment Contracts
      • Overview of Contracts
      • How You Manage Contracts
      • How You Update or Extend a Contract with Assignment Updates in Redwood
      • Process to Migrate Contract Data
      • FAQs for Employment Contracts
        • How are contract numbers generated?
        • Can I add contracts information for contingent workers and pending workers?
        • How can I convert a fixed-employment contract to an open-ended one?
        • What does the table in the Contract Extensions region show?
    • Add and Reassign Direct Reports
      • How You Reassign Direct Reports
      • How You Reassign Direct Reports for Terminations and Resignations
      • How You Reassign or Add Direct Reports During Local and Global Transfer
      • How You Add Direct Reports During Add Assignment
      • Examples of Direct Reports Reassignment During Global Transfer
      • How You Reassign Pending Approvals and Invalid Supervisor Assignments
      • FAQs for Add and Reassign Direct Reports
        • What's the difference between the Change Manager and Direct Reports functionality?
        • Can I reassign indirect reports of the manager from the same Direct Reports task?
        • Why can't I see the direct reports action and action reason fields in the When and Why section of the Resignation flow even though they're enabled in the Transaction Design Studio?
    • Terminate Work Relationships
      • Resignations
      • Terminations
      • Termination and Resignation Version 2 versus Version 3
      • Terminating or Resigning from Assignments and Work Relationships in Version 3
      • What Happens to Direct Reports in a Termination
      • About Reversing Terminations
      • Terminating a Work Relationship
        • Example of a Worker Termination
      • How Line Manager Synchronization Happens During Termination When Position Hierarchy Is Used
      • FAQs for Terminate Work Relationships
        • Can I terminate a work relationship if there are future-dated employment changes?
        • Can I terminate the source work relationship from which a global temporary assignment is created?
        • Can I terminate a person's work relationship when they have a resignation pending approval from the same work relationship?
        • Why don't I see all termination actions and reasons when terminating a work relationship with a global temporary assignment?
        • How are data conflicts arising from a termination handled?
        • What happens if I revoke user access from a person with multiple active work relationships?
        • What happens when you select worker death in a termination?
        • What's the impact of entering a rehire recommendation during a termination?
  • 10 Seniority Dates
    • Overview of Seniority Dates
    • Seniority Dates
    • Adjust a Seniority Date
    • Examples of Calculating Seniority Dates
    • How Cumulative Seniority Dates Are Calculated
    • Examples of Calculating Cumulative and Noncumulative Seniority Dates
    • Hours-Based Seniority Calculation
    • Examples of Calculating Hours-Based Seniority
    • Process to Calculate Seniority Dates
    • V1 Seniority Dates
  • 11 Document Records
    • Overview of Document Records
    • How You Scan Attachment to Prefill Document Record Attributes
    • Mass Download Document Records
    • Archive and Purge Document Records
    • Change Publish Date for Document Records
    • Sources of Creating Document Records
    • Preview Document Records
    • Audit Access to Document Records Pages
    • FAQs for Document Records
      • Why is my document type LOV blank?
      • What is the significance of the From and To dates of a document record?
      • What is the significance of the document code for document records?
      • On what basis is the document code generated for a document record?
      • Is there a limit to the number of document records per worker?
      • Is there a limit to the number of attachments or size of an attachment for a document record?
      • What types of attachments can be uploaded using document records?
      • Is there a tool for mass uploading document records and its associated attachments?
      • Which file format should I use when uploading an attachment for document records using REST API?
      • If an assignment transaction that created a document record is deleted, what happens to the document record?
      • Why do I get an error when I enter the URL in upper case as an attachment in a document record?
  • 12 Workforce Records
    • Overview of Workforce Records
    • Directory and Person Spotlight
      • Person Spotlight Search
      • Person Spotlight
      • How You Manage Your Team
      • People Directory
      • How You Print the Organization Chart
      • Finding Colleagues Using the Directory
        • Find Colleagues Using the Directory
      • How You Create and Display Vacancies
      • Person-Record Keyword Searches
      • How You Optimize Person Search Keywords
      • How You Update Person Search Keywords
      • Worklist Transactions
      • FAQs for Directory
        • Why can't I see the roles that I want to request for myself?
        • Why didn't my keyword search return the expected results?
        • Why do some people appear more than once in the search results?
        • What's a matrix chart?
        • What's the difference between rejecting and withdrawing an approval transaction?
        • Why was my saved transaction deleted?
        • What's a calendar event message?
        • Why didn't a calendar event message appear on the calendars of everyone in an organization or location?
    • Connections
      • Overview of Connections
      • Search for People in Connections
      • What's a Connections Profile
      • Organization Chart
      • When to Use Connections or Directory
      • Find Colleagues Using Connections
    • Activity Centers
      • Overview of Activity Centers
      • My Activity Center
      • Team Activity Center
    • Mass Updates
      • Mass Updates
      • How You Make Mass Assignment Changes Using a Spreadsheet
      • Mass Update Statuses
      • Create a Mass Transfer
      • FAQs for Mass Updates
        • Can I make changes in the mass update after submitting it?
        • What are the worker and assignment category tags in a mass update?
    • Work Schedules
      • How an Individual's Schedule Is Identified
      • Exception Options in Work Schedules
      • FAQs for Work Schedules
        • What's a primary work schedule?
        • How do I change exceptions in individuals' work schedules?
  • 13 Workforce Deployment Analysis
    • Generate Workforce Deployment Intelligence
      • Workforce Modeling
      • Security, Access, and Approvals in Workforce Modeling
      • Workforce Modeling Analytics
      • Workforce Modeling Actions
      • Considerations for Terminating Workers in Workforce Modeling
      • How Synchronization Works in Workforce Modeling
      • FAQs for Generate Workforce Deployment Intelligence
        • What happens if I move or edit a worker assignment in Workforce Modeling?
        • Why can't I inactivate a position in Workforce Modeling?
        • How can I convert a vacancy into a position?
    • FAQs for Evaluate Workforce Deployment Performance
      • When do changes to my organization hierarchy appear?
      • Where do promotion-readiness values come from?
      • Why do some people appear more than once in my organization hierarchy?
      • Can I terminate a manager's whole organization in Workforce Modeling?
      • Can I update a worker's salary in Workforce Modeling?
      • Can I terminate a worker outside the top manager's hierarchy in Workforce Modeling?
      • Can I cancel a termination in Workforce Modeling?
  • 14 HR Help Desk Service Requests Classic
    • HR Help Desk Classic Documentation
  • 15 Troubleshooting
    • Reverse a Termination
    • How do I unlock a worker’s employment record?