History: as customer requirements and legal frameworks change, the definitions of a “skill” to be matched to an employee will change. In some cases meeting criteria associated with a “skill” may split into two. E.g. a Nurse may be a Registered General Nurse (RGN) and require CRB (Criminal Records Bureaux) checks every year when working for the NHS, Private employers may require a maximum validity of 3 years.http://www.crb.gov.uk/
Thus the skill becomes split into RGN (NHS) and RGN. AvaPA accommodates this. This sort of situation also occurs when AvaPA is chosen to replace a more limited system.
To allow reporting accuracy and simple operation during splitting or reconfiguring or importing “limited” data, AvaPA allows requirements to be moved (for example) from RGN to RGN (NHS) without changing any other data. This functionality is triggered when new departments are set up. A dialog box asks if earlier requirements are to be moved. To prevent this function being accidentally run, it can now be disabled (and re-enabled) as required.
This is done by any user with supervior status:
On the main menu:
Select setup, Reuirements and availability
Click on the Request tab.
