Revision as of 20:27, 12 June 2013

Departments are associated with End Users and they can be defined in Administration > Company Structure > Manage Department. Departments may also be created automatically as part of the LDAP (AD) Import End User feature. If an End User is imported into Layton ServiceDesk, and their Department setting from Active Directory is not listed in the Manage Department section, the Department will be automatically created.

If you have enabled the Company Level option in Administration > Company Structure > Manage Company, then you may define the Company for each Department.

Properties

The default department properties consist of two fields: Company and Department. The Company field provides a selection tool to find the Company that will be associated with the Department. The Department field is a free-type query box which allows you to enter the name of the Department. Like most forms in ServiceDesk, this can be modified to include more fields to meet the needs of your organization. User-defined fields must first be added in Administration > Data Design > Department Data, then they may be added to the form in Administration > Form Design > Department.

Working Hours

The Department-specific Working Hours allows for a granular configuration of working hours in your organization. The Priority/SLA time only elapses during Working Hours, given there are no scheduled Closed Periods at that time. Any Request submitted will have Priority/SLA escalation levels working within the End User's Department Working Hours setting. The Department-specific Working Hours will supersede the global Default Working Hours.

Closed Periods

Combined with Working Hours, Closed Periods control the Department's office hours. Any hours that fall within a scheduled Closed Period are not count against the Requests' Priority/SLA times.

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