{"id":229309,"date":"2020-07-08T16:01:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T21:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/site\/?p=229309"},"modified":"2023-07-14T14:21:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T19:21:47","slug":"setting-departments-for-the-service-request-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/site\/setting-departments-for-the-service-request-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting departments for the service request form"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.9&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.9&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.9&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.9&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Montserrat||||||||&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<div class=\"wpd_blog_list__content\">\n<h1><span>Departments need to be set whenever an existing user group is assigned to an additional property.<\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p><em>A department is a distinct staff work team, for example: Facilities, Information Technology. Each department has its own equipment, work orders, staff users, and projects. Departments span all divisions and properties. Staff in the Global department have access to all departments.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These settings control which departments appear in the dropdown on the service request for a Tenant\/Employee user in a user group at a specific property.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Properties &gt; List \u2013Actions: manage user groups<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/user-group-departments-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-410 lazyload\" title=\"user group departments 1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/user-group-departments-1.png\" alt=\"manage user groups from the properties list\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Actions: departments<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/user-group-departments-21.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-412 lazyload\" title=\"user group departments 2\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/user-group-departments-21.png\" alt=\"Actions: departments\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Assign departments to each user group at the property.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/user-group-departments-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-413 lazyload\" title=\"user group departments 3\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/user-group-departments-3.png\" alt=\"select the departments that the requester can choose\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Selecting all gives employee or tenant contacts the option to select any department including Global.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Selecting one department will ensure that all service requests submitted will be limited to that department.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Typical setup is to check all boxes except global, requiring employees to select a specific department.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span>Note<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0<span>If a user group is assigned to three properties, the available departments need to be set for the user group at each property.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"wpd_blog_list__footer\"><\/footer>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Departments need to be set whenever an existing user group is assigned to an additional property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1080","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[98,112,99,111,108],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-229309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-efficiency","tag-management","tag-operations","tag-service-request","tag-work-order"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23417533,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229309\/revisions\/23417533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229309"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertytrak.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=229309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}