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The Departments table stores information about any departments internal or external to the holds records that relate to the different departments in your company. Each Department record typically stores the department name and , a main contact, if applicable. Departments may be used to define distinct processes, contract types, services on a per department level, as needed.

Use Case for Departments

and contact information for that main contact. In the out-of-the-box system, the Departments table holds ten default Department records.

  • Customer Support
  • Development
  • Finance
  • HR
  • IT
  • Marketing
  • Sales
  • Legal
  • Operations
  • Procurement

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Use Case

Department records can Department records may be created by members of the Admin, Admin Import, and Business Admin groups. As a background table, other tables link to the Departments , including the Employees subtable.

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table. Notably, the Department, Department Manager, and Department ID fields in the Employees subtable are linked to the Department Name, Department Head, and ID fields of the Departments table, respectively.

Automation

The Standard System Demo does not contain any rules, or actions, in the Departments table by default. 

Ownership

Department records are owned by the user whose Login matches the Creator Login field in each a Department record. More simplySimply put, a Department record is owned by the user who created it.