HR solutions for a Microsoft world
What’s it called? This feature (still in preview at time of writing) is called ‘Workflow experience enhancements’, you can find it in the feature management workspace. Why should I be interested? There’s a small, seemingly minor, change in this feature which will be of value to anyone who uses any sort of workflow in the … Read more
I’ve been meaning to write this post for ages, but a combination of life in general and more exciting things to do keep getting in the way. What’s finally nudged me in to it is working with a customer this week who were already using Talent before we got involved. They had a number of … Read more
This is the final post in the series, but my plan is to keep it up to date with issues that me or my team encountered while setting up email notifications. It’s going to be a bit like an FAQ list, so when it gets a bit long, using the page search function might come … Read more
So in theory now, your emails should be generating, and sitting ready to go. This is because the batch jobs that are needed in Talent to run workflows and generate notifications are on by default. The batch job used to send the emails however, needs to be activated. First of all, check that your emails … Read more
We’re getting closer to actually sending some emails out now… At this stage you need to go back to your workflow, tell it which email template to use, and also give that email some content. When we entered ‘%message%’ in the HTML file, we were telling Talent to use the message data from the workflow … Read more
This is a bit that I struggled with when I was first learning it – because it feels like you have to set up your template twice. Once in the system admin part of Core HR, and once when you’re editing your workflow. After a while you just accept it as it is and stop … Read more
There are many good blog posts out there already that walk you through how to set up email parameters in Finance and Operations, and fortunately for us, in Talent they work in more or less the same way. I was advised a while ago to use the Exchange setup, which is really simple to do. … Read more
There’s not much point in doing your leave management in Talent, if you still have to ping an email to your manager to tell them you’ve submitted a leave request before they know to go in and approve it. Now, as I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a techie. I’m a HR user who started pressing … Read more
Review types is where most of the heavy lifting gets done in terms of controlling how your review process works (obviously, if you’re doing performance without reviews, you can skip this bit). For each review type you create, you can select criteria that determine how reviews of this category work. There are five criteria: Enable … Read more