HR solutions for a Microsoft world
Edit: 22 November 2019 – a few new fields have been added to leave plans, which have changed how others work. There’s no point leaving the old version of this post active (it’s not like anyone’s using the old version of Talent) so I’m going to add them to this post now and edit what … Read more
Leave types are one of the foundation bits of config for setting up leave and absence in Talent. At first they might just seem like broad categories, but in fact they’re a bit more significant. When a user books leave in self-service, the list of values they select from in order to indicate the sort … Read more
Leave and absence is one area where Microsoft are spending a lot of effort at the moment. Every time I go back to it to complete the setup for a client it looks a bit different than it did the time before. New fields get added, forms change slightly, and it can do more than … Read more
Payment methods are enabled by default in the employee self service workspace in Talent. But given that there are no payroll features there, depending on the broader HRIS landscape, a lot of people choose to switch off this tab. I used to do this by removing the relevant security privilege from the employee role, but … Read more
This is a question I’m seeing asked again and again and again – so I thought I’d get some content out there that explains how Talent is customised. This is intended to be an overview – and I’m assuming a degree of knowledge about the Dynamics suite in general, and the broader Microsoft stack (including … Read more
Once you’ve done all the setup, creating courses is the easy bit. Courses, if you didn’t already know, are legal entity specific. So you have to make sure that you’re working in the correct legal entity when you start creating them (if you don’t have more than one legal entity, you don’t need to worry). … Read more
Once you’ve finished the location setup, you can move on to defining how courses can be categorised. This took me a while to get my head around, because the three core concepts can seem a bit vague when you’re first trying to work out what to do with them. They are: Courses Course types Course … Read more
I’ve got high hopes for where MS are going to go with Course Management over the next few months, and hoping in particular that they’ll do something imaginative with the Lynda.com platform that came bundled with the LinkedIn acquisition, but that remains to be seen. For now I thought I’d refresh my memory on how course … Read more