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Workflow Best Practices: Model Your Real Business Process

Workflow Best Practices: Model Your Real Business Process

by PDS Marketing | May 15, 2020 | Blog, Workflow

The first step in creating workflow templates for your various HCM activities is to model those processes. The Vista Workflow engine supports just about any variations in business flows, so you can model just about whatever you want. One trap people fall into is...
Workflow Best Practices: Trim the Approval Screen Display

Workflow Best Practices: Trim the Approval Screen Display

by PDS Marketing | May 8, 2020 | Blog, Workflow

By default, the information submitted on a Vista workflow screen is both visible and editable (with the standard workflow audit trail) by subsequent workflow participants (e.g., approvers). That might be appropriate in some situations, but not all. For example, you...

PDS Named To List of 25 Best HR Software of 2020 by The Software Report

by PDS Marketing | May 6, 2020 | News

Blue Bell, Pa., May 6, 2020 – PDS®, a leading provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions, today announced that it was named to The Software Report’s list of the 25 Best HR Software of 2020. The winners were selected based on their software product offering,...
Workflow Best Practices: Remove Terminated Employees from Workflows

Workflow Best Practices: Remove Terminated Employees from Workflows

by PDS Marketing | May 1, 2020 | Blog, Workflow

In the last article, we discussed running the Issue Detective so that it can alert you to workflow templates that might cause approvals to land on in the queue of someone who is no longer there. However, somebody might be terminated (or transferred) while existing...
Workflow Best Practices: Run the Issue Detective

Workflow Best Practices: Run the Issue Detective

by PDS Marketing | Apr 24, 2020 | Blog, Issue Detective, Workflow

We could repeat this best practice for virtually every part of Vista. The Issue Detective exists, not because bad data originally got into the system, but because time and events can make data bad or suspect. Running the Issue Detective on a regular basis ensures that...
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