Employee Options

The Employee Options page allows administrators to configure various employee settings, such as which fields are required to be entered when editing employees, etc.

Note: Employee options are global settings that will affect all users. Only administrators will have access to the Employee Options page.

Note: The terminology of employees, groups and other objects can be changed via the System > General > Terminology page.

Required Fields

You can specify which fields are required when adding or editing employees. By default fields such as login name, last name, etc. are required, but for your use you may need additional fields marked as required, such as the employee ID.

Employee Types

An Employee Type is an employee property that you define as a way to differentiate different categories of employees, for example "Exempt" and "Nonexempt", or "Salaried" and "Hourly". You can define any number of employee types. Employee types have the following properties:

Property	Description
Label	The display name of the employee type, up to 255 characters. For example, "Hourly". This is the text shown in the user interface, as well as in exported data.
Value	The internal value for the employee type, up to 255 characters. For example, "hourly". This is the text stored in the database and, therefore, shown on reports. Generally you will want to use the same value for Label and Value.