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Edit Departments

You can edit a department after creating it. If you have not associated a department with a location, you can delete it. When you delete a department, its sub departments are also deleted.

Follow these steps:

  1. Open the department.

    The properties page appears.

  2. Edit the following fields:
    Department Name

    Defines the name of the department.

    Parent Department

    Specifies the parent department for this department. Required only if this department is a subdepartment to another department.

    Example: The Retail Banking IT department is a parent to the Application Development department.

    Description

    Defines the detailed information about the department.

    Department Manager

    Specifies the department manager. The user you select as the department manager is automatically granted the Department - Edit access right.

    Default: This field is populated with the resource ID of the user who created the department.

    Business Relationship Manager

    Defines the user who is a liaison between this department and other departments. The user selected as the business relationship manager is automatically granted the Department - View access right.

  3. Save the changes.

More information:

Departments

Create Departments

Associate Departments with Locations

Define Department Budgets

Department Locations

Department Resources