Group Administrators

[PaulArthurs]

There is a role of GSL (Acting), DC (Acting) etc, and those roles have appropriate permissions for their capacity. They cannot, however, be selected as the line manager on another person's record.

Great! So, as for example the GSL(Acting) is the Line Manager of Leaders within the Group then there needs to be the ability within Compass to assign them as Line Manager.

Simples


Paul

[PeterSheppard]

Great! So, as for example the GSL(Acting) is the Line Manager of Leaders within the Group then there needs to be the ability within Compass to assign them as Line Manager.

Possibly. But setting the line manager doesn't do anything anyway, other than display on a few reports.

[Neil Williams]

Why do you have to *set* the line manager? Why is it not automatically set on role in the structure?

[David Kendall]

There is a role of GSL (Acting), DC (Acting) etc, and those roles have appropriate permissions for their capacity. They cannot, however, be selected as the line manager on another person's record.

Ah - I stand semi corrected.

But if someone has a role of Acting GSL, but can't be the line manager of other leaders, can they still see and manage their records in Compass as true GSL role would ?

[PaulArthurs]

Why do you have to *set* the line manager? Why is it not automatically set on role in the structure?

Good point. In fact by entering a name it is distorting the position if either person changes role.

If Line Manager is needed in any reports etc, then the system should be able to define the Line Manager by referene to a table of roles rather than looking to see if a named individual has been added as the Line Manager.


Paul

[PeterSheppard]

Good point. In fact by entering a name it is distorting the position if either person changes role.

If Line Manager is needed in any reports etc, then the system should be able to define the Line Manager by referene to a table of roles rather than looking to see if a named individual has been added as the Line Manager.

It's completely awful from a data structure/normalisation perspective, and seems to have been very much a late workaround - it wasn't there in any of the beta releases. In HR systems the line management chain is usually stored as links between POSTS, not PEOPLE.

Yes there needs to be some way to customise it because in some cases the line manager is a Deputy DC/CC etc.

[Matt Donnelly]

I seem to recall it was possible during the original release of compass to set a free-text field role name in addition to the drop-down box. Is this still possible? If so, putting Acting Group Scout Leader in that free text box but selecting GSL in the drop-down would do the job!

[PeterSheppard]

I seem to recall it was possible during the original release of compass to set a free-text field role name in addition to the drop-down box. Is this still possible? If so, putting Acting Group Scout Leader in that free text box but selecting GSL in the drop-down would do the job!

No, only HQ can edit Visible Role Title. But it's a moot point as Group Scout Leader (Acting) IS a role on Compass.