I’m on to fixing our Employees and Resource groups. Some questions on the Employee - Production Info tab:
I have some employees that someone selected a Resource Group and Resource ID (matches user ID) on this screen. What is this for? A default they get when they open MES?
It doesn’t want me to remove the resource / resource group from this screen, as when I do it wants to delete the Resource completely. So it won’t let you delete it if there are labor records associated with it. It will let me change it to something else, eg “temp”. Then I can remove it from the employee, and it deletes the temp resource. Is this right?? Seems pretty goofy…
On that note, where can you edit a labor entry? Right Click lists something call “Labor Entry”, but it goes to Time/Expense entry… can’t see anything about activities or resource groups there…
Last Q - the Employee screen has a User ID field. How does this differ from selecting an Employee on the User Account Security screen?
I’ve searched and read everywhere, can’t answer those myself… Thanks much in advance for your time.
This is for a number of things, but it links an employee record to a Resource so that the employee’s calendars and exceptions can be used in the Scheduler, as well as a few other things that help the MES Work Queue default/show the filtered information for that employee.
Hmmm - we don’t associate Employees to actual resources, so I’m not sure. I can guess about relational database rules and such, but I would think that you need to assign it to another resource in order to assign a different employee to that resource. I’d look into this a bit more.
Like Kevin said, you can do a Job Adjustment, but the standard data entry point in the UI (not MES) is Time and Expense Entry. Labor records are entered, edited, approved, modified there. If you have the payroll module, things are a little different.
We don’t use SFM (and frankly I don’t know that module…) but we have certain Users with Employees specified because they will do certain transactions that require security and also have UI access, while we have Employee’s that do not require a UserID, so we do not assign a UserID to all employees.
Links the employee to a UserID. This link is used by the Shop Floor Menu(SFM). In the SFM, the user signs on with their employee id instead of a User id. This link grants the menu security authorizations of the User to the employee. It also defines the language to be used. Note: An employee can only be related to one UserFile record. Each UserFile, can be related to many employees. Therefore, you might set up a few generic Users per language, or based on security levels
And on Employee Entry
Click this drop-down list to select the name this user enters as a shop employee within the selected company. When this user is a shop employee, this field is required. You create employee records within Employee Maintenance.
