Each planning period within a salary group in Salary Planner Assistant has its own set of included departments that determine which university departments have an available salary plan for the period.

This set of included departments is populated automatically upon the creation of a planning period, based on the assigned college code of the salary group. All departments associated with the college code are added to the list of included departments, but any departments that do not contain any employees will be hidden from view on the planning period's page, and made unavailable for salary plan editing by default.

A salary group's college code is assigned at the system administration level of the application, and salary group administrators cannot change their college code nor determine which departments are automatically included.

Splitting Included Departments

Salary group administrators have the ability to modify the automatically-included three-digit departments of a planning period by splitting them into into their six-digit sub-organizations. These sub-organizations function virtually as their own departments within the planning period, and possess their own salary plan and department administrators.

To split a department into its sub-departments...

Step 1 - Select the desired planning period from the Salary Group Admin Home by clicking its View Period button.

Step 2 - Click Included Departments near the top of the planning period's page.

Step 3 - On the next page, you'll be presented with a list of the department's associated with your salary group's college code. Click the checkbox next to a department to split it into its sub-organizations.

Note: Some departments will have their boxes checked by default, based on the settings configured by system administrators.

Step 4 - Once you are finished with your selections, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save.

The newly split sub-departments should now display on the planning period's page, in place of the original three-digit department(s).

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