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Time Date	System Updates
Update 822 28 October 2021	It is now possible to switch off the 'Appointed by' and 'Appointed Date' fields when a person is appointed to a role. This is appropriate for 'perfect roles' - ie those where ALL competence data is in elements and NONE is in the role. (This is the stage that all data will need to get to in the future in order for the competence management system to be re-written into New HOPS.) The setting is per-department, and is to be found in the department > green 'Competence' menu at the top > Competence Structure > Matrix Settings > Edit. For clarity, we are NOT suggesting that the dates on which people are assessed and who by are no longer recorded, just that they should be recorded on the element for each assessment that took place, rather than on the role. ---- The 'Appointed By' and 'Appointed Date' fields were left over from the 'Assessor' and 'Assessment Date' fields when competence was stored in roles, in the days before Competence Elements (introduced in 2016). Where data was stored in these fields previously, and subsequently copied into elements in the Element Migration programme, all the previous assessor and assessment date details will have been copied into the element. The fields were left in place to ensure that organisations still maintaining competence information in roles could use them, until the point at which all competence data was converted into elements. However, they have caused a lot of confusion as to what their remaining relevance is for perfect roles - which is no relevance at all - so now there is the option to remove them. Please do switch them off for departments where all the roles are perfect roles. You can see which roles are perfect (ie all competence records in elements) in HOPS Admin > Perfect Roles List. The status of the Appointed By and Appointed Date fields is also now shown on the Perfect Roles List.

Time Date

System Updates

Update 822
28 October 2021

It is now possible to switch off the 'Appointed by' and 'Appointed Date' fields when a person is appointed to a role.

This is appropriate for 'perfect roles' - ie those where ALL competence data is in elements and NONE is in the role. (This is the stage that all data will need to get to in the future in order for the competence management system to be re-written into New HOPS.)

The setting is per-department, and is to be found in the department > green 'Competence' menu at the top > Competence Structure > Matrix Settings > Edit.

For clarity, we are NOT suggesting that the dates on which people are assessed and who by are no longer recorded, just that they should be recorded on the element for each assessment that took place, rather than on the role.

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The 'Appointed By' and 'Appointed Date' fields were left over from the 'Assessor' and 'Assessment Date' fields when competence was stored in roles, in the days before Competence Elements (introduced in 2016). Where data was stored in these fields previously, and subsequently copied into elements in the Element Migration programme, all the previous assessor and assessment date details will have been copied into the element.

The fields were left in place to ensure that organisations still maintaining competence information in roles could use them, until the point at which all competence data was converted into elements. However, they have caused a lot of confusion as to what their remaining relevance is for perfect roles - which is no relevance at all - so now there is the option to remove them.

Please do switch them off for departments where all the roles are perfect roles. You can see which roles are perfect (ie all competence records in elements) in HOPS Admin > Perfect Roles List.

The status of the Appointed By and Appointed Date fields is also now shown on the Perfect Roles List.

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