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A Kitchen department with a Chef position and a person assigned separately A Kitchen department with a Chef position and a person assigned separately A department has two separate lists: its positions and its people. Linking a position does not assign the people who hold it. Keep both lists current so department filters select the work or people you expect. Open Departments, open the department’s row menu and choose Edit. Under Positions, select the jobs that belong here or remove ones that no longer do. Click Save changes. A position can belong to more than one department. Removing its link here does not delete the position or remove it from anyone’s profile.

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Assign the people

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Open the person's profile

Go to People, select the person and open Overview.
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Choose a department

Under Assigned departments, click the add button and select the department. It appears as a chip and saves immediately.
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Remove a membership when it ends

Click the remove button on the department chip. The person stays in your workspace and keeps their positions and other departments.
A person’s assigned positions, locations and departments, with Kitchen assigned A person’s assigned positions, locations and departments, with Kitchen assigned A person can belong to several departments. Policies and cover rules can target a department, so adding or removing a membership changes which rules apply to that person. If you cannot add or remove their departments, ask your administrator to check your access to edit that person. If your role only sees people in your own departments, you cannot add a department your role does not already reach to yourself. An administrator does that, so nobody widens their own access by assigning themselves a department. Taking one of your own departments off, and adding a department your role already covers, both still work.

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Check who is included

Back in Departments, the people count comes from direct assignments. See people in the row menu opens People filtered to that department. The list still respects your role’s access to people. The schedule’s Department filter selects the people assigned to it and keeps their shifts, including shifts in other positions. See Filters and saved views before publishing a filtered schedule.

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Next

Department reporting

Choose the right filter for people or their work.

Managing departments

Change details, reorder the list or remove a department.

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