Departments Overview
Work Force Departments are another name for categories to organize your employees into their specified departments. You can copy employees into several different departments. Since most likely, your employee bio will vary depending on the department, there is no multiple department assignment option in Work Force. The Departments view is the default admin view when clicking into ‘Components->Work Force’ (Figure A).
Add a Department
To add a new Department, click on the ‘New’ toolbar button and this will open the add/edit department dialogue (Figure B).
Title is the only required field for a department, but you will have the option to add the following fields:
General Department Info
- Title: The title of the department (eg Marketing, Sales, etc)
- Alias: The alias field is not required. However, if it is not supplied an alias will be auto-generated for you. Aliases are used by the core Joomla SEF functions to provide URLs to the object. Spaces and special characters are not allowed in alias fields
- Ordering: The order in relation to other departments
- Description: A description of the department
- Status: The published status of the department
- Image: An image for the department - see below
You can either enter an ‘alias’ in the alias field, or one will be auto-generated for you from the title when the department is saved.
Image
If you choose to add an image, click on the ‘Upload’ button in the sidebar ‘Image’ area which will allow you to upload a new image which will be re-sized to the dimensions you have specified in your Work Force configuration. If you have already uploaded several images, you can also choose to ‘Select Image’ which will open a modal window to choose an existing image (Figure C).
