The Employees service stores a wide variety of information about an organization's employee. Follow the steps to create a new Employees record:

  1. Open a new record from the Employees service.
  2. Enter a first name and last name in the top row of the form. (Title/prefix, middle name, and suffix are optional.)
  3. Enter a title for the employee (e.g., Product Manager) in the Title field.
  4. Specify the organization for the employee in the Organization field.
  5. Specify the employee's manager in the Supervisor field.
  6. Select the employee's Department from the drop-down list, if desired.
  7. Select the employee's Position Code from the drop-down list, if desired.
  8. Configure the employee's contact information as necessary on the Contact tab.
  9. Select the Details tab and enter information about the employee. See Linking an Employees Record to a Persons Record and Details Tab for more information on the Details tab.
  10. Select the Skills tab and specify the employee's skill set. See Tracking an Employee's Skills for more information.
  11. Select the Personal tab. On the Personal tab, you can specify various fields, such as Spouse Name, Kids, and Important Dates. See Personal tab for more information on these fields.
  12. Select the Comments tab and enter additional information about this employee, as necessary.
  13. Save the record.
      • Direct Reports: This tab displays a list of other employees for whom this employee is the supervisor.
      • Contact Log: This tab displays the Contact Log entries linked to the employee. You can also open new Contact Log records from this tab that automatically link to the Employees record from which it was opened. See Managing the Contact Log Service for more information.
      • Topic Codes: If the Employees service has associated topic codes, you can assign topic codes to this employee from this tab. See Assigning Topic Codes to Services for more information on assigning topic codes.

When adding a user to Aptify, the administrator should create a User Entity Relations record to link the user to his/her Employees record. This is step 7 of the Aptify User Administration wizard. See Creating User Accounts for details. Once a user is linked to an Employee record, certain fields, such as Taken By on an Orders form, will populate automatically with the employee's name.