Utilizing new features of MIIS SP1 for dealing with organizations where employees may have multiple jobs and work at multiple locations

Utilizing new features of MIIS SP1 for dealing with organizations where employees may have multiple jobs and work at multiple locations

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Business Problem: It is very common for educational facilities to have employees with multiple job roles or to work in multiple locations. In terms of MIIS this implies that job description and job location attributes have to be multi-valued. This paper demonstrates how use Group Populator in a situation where an organization wants to define groups based on job description and job location, and those attributes may be multi-valued. Based on my experience typically HR systems deal with this scenario by defining one single-valued attribute for the primary job and another multi-valued attribute for the secondary jobs. For locations the same logic is followed.

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