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About Human Resources
The people who work for your company, it's human capital, are it's most important asset. Selecting a software platform that increases the value of your companies human capital and delivers benefits, services and opportunities to your workforce, is critical to your companies success
That platform must be able to accurately and reliability process worker transactions, collect decision support information, and communicate between management, workers and outside resources. The OFBiz Human Resource application (HR App) can provide a backbone for building that platform.
In this chapter you are introduced to the organization of this document and to the key business objects that are the core to HR Application.
Chapter numbers are used here to refer to parts of the document. Chapters numbers are not displayed in the on line help version of the document. Hopefully this will not be to confusing to the online reader.
Chapter 1 is this introduction chapter. It lays out the purpose of the remaining chapters and introduces some of the core HR App features.
Chapter 2 has instructions to get you started using HR App. A list, in logical order, describes some activities you can preform to get up and running.
Chapters 3 thru 15 of provide the help documents that can be invoked from the HR App in a context sensitive manner. When you work in any of the HR App screens you can click on the Help icon in the menu bar and the help browser will open to the relevant page in the document.
Each feature in the HR App Menu has in it's own chapter, screens within the feature are sections within the chapter. Introductions to the chapters describe how the screens work together to implement an important application feature. Each screen is pictured and documented consistently with:
A picture of the screen.
Breadcrumbs to show where to find the screen.
A brief description of the screen usage.
A list of fields in the screen.
A list of actions that can be performed from the screen.
Chapter 16 discuses OFBiz security settings for HR App
Chapter 17 HR App Intra-Application Integration covers usage scenarios for other OFBiz applications. The HR Application is part of the larger OFBiz back office set of administrative applications and is often dependent on these other applications.
Important terms in the documentation are defined in a Glossary. In order to promote a consistent usage and understanding of terms, links to the Glossary definitions are placed throughout the document.
Notes in the document describe behavior that is not intuitive. Links between document sections are used liberally tie together concepts that cross chapter boundaries. For example screens that use information managed in Global HR Settings are linked to the screens where they are used.