As an organisation, you many need to collect and store employee data tailored to your business' specific needs. These could be questions such as what dietary requirements they have for catering events, what software they are most familiar with, right through to what parking spot they use daily.
The Custom Fields feature also allows you to do just this, with the ability to ask a free text, single-select, or multi-select question to your employees. With the ability to set the user visibility, editing, and location of those questions. You can also use this feature to edit any information if it changes and delete a record if it is no longer required.
HR Best Practise
We would recommend you make custom fields view-only for your managers and fully editable for your employees. Mark the field as mandatory if you need to collect the data for compliance purposes or for other mandatory reasons. Enable the capture field during onboarding option if you need to capture information at the start of their employment, for example, to determine a uniform size or laptop preference.
If you are adding a field not related to onboarding, use the Send an Email Notification to your Employees option to make sure you alert your employees to the new field requirement. Employee can find the Custom Fields feature in their employee file under Additional Information.
Availability
HR Plan: | Free | Standard | Premium | Platinum |
User Access: | Employee | Manager | Admin |
We base the default access level on a per user basis and whether they have view, edit and delete access and excluding any changes made via our Custom Security feature. Please be aware you can not grant access to view this information in an employee's file or create/edit the fields via the Custom Security Settings feature.
Getting started
- Click the Settings menu.
- Click the Custom Fields submenu.
- Click the Create New button.
- In the Type drop-down, select the Free Text option.
- Complete the following fields:
- Name.
- Hint.
- Description.
- Click the Next button.
- Complete the following fields:
- Permissions:
- Managers:
- Hidden.
- View only.
- View and edit.
- Employees:
- Hidden.
- View only.
- View and edit.
- Managers:
- Mandatory.
- Capture field during on-boarding.
- Send an email notification to employees.
- Permissions:
- Click the Save button.
- Click the Settings menu.
- Click the Custom Fields submenu.
- Click the Create New button.
- In the Type drop-down, select the Single Selection option.
- Complete the following fields:
- Name.
- Add select options.
- Hint.
- Description.
- Click the Next button.
- Complete the following fields:
- Permissions:
- Managers:
- Hidden.
- View only.
- View and edit.
- Employees:
- Hidden.
- View only.
- View and edit.
- Managers:
- Mandatory.
- Capture field during on-boarding.
- Send an email notification to employees.
- Permissions:
- Click the Save button.
- Click the Settings menu.
- Click the Custom Fields submenu.
- Click the Create New button.
- In the Type drop-down, select the Multi-Selection option.
- Complete the following fields:
- Name.
- Add select options.
- Hint.
- Description.
- Click the Next button.
- Complete the following fields:
- Permissions:
- Managers:
- Hidden.
- View only.
- View and edit.
- Employees:
- Hidden.
- View only.
- View and edit.
- Managers:
- Mandatory.
- Capture field during on-boarding.
- Send an email notification to employees.
- Permissions:
- Click the Save button.
Editing data
Deleting data
Author recommended
So you have now managed to customise the onboarding experience and are now wondering what can I do next. There are two recommendations I would make on this front and they are:
- Onboarding an employee via the dashboard This article will take you through each of the steps involved when onboarding your new employee onto your HR platform.
- Onboarding new employees in the HR platform | Video This article provides you with a video that will take you through the all the steps involved with onboarding your new employee.
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