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A Kitchen department card with edit and ordering controls A Kitchen department card with edit and ordering controls Use the department’s row menu to change its details, move it in the list or delete it. Open Departments and use the three-dot menu on the row you want.

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Change details or order

Choose Edit, make your changes and click Save changes. You can change the name, icon, colour, linked positions and Payroll export code. Choose Move up or Move down to change the department’s order. The first department cannot move up, and the last cannot move down. Moving one does not change its members or positions. The Kitchen department row menu with Edit, Move up, Move down, See people, View cover rules and Delete The Kitchen department row menu with Edit, Move up, Move down, See people, View cover rules and Delete If the row has no menu, your role can only view departments. Ask your workspace administrator to check your access.

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Remove a department

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Check its assignments

Review its positions and use See people to check who belongs to it. Assign another department first if those people still need one.
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Delete the department

Choose Delete in the row menu, then Delete department in the confirmation dialog.
Deletion removes the department and its links to people and positions. The people and positions remain. There is no restore action in the interface.
The department disappears from the list. Deleting it can also change which department-based rules apply to its former members.

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Check cover rules

View cover rules opens Policies filtered to the department. Use it to find the department’s rules; the department editor does not contain those rules.

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Next

Assigning people and positions

Choose who belongs to the department.

Department reporting

Choose the right filter for people or their work.

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