Set Up Miscellaneous Articles

On the Misc. Article Types page, you can set up codes to track miscellaneous articles that are provided to employees under specific categories. After you set up the codes, you can assign employee miscellaneous articles to a type to make tracking and maintaining items easier.

To create miscellaneous article types

  1. Choose Lightbulb that opens the Tell Me feature., enter misc article types, and then choose the related link.

    The Misc. Article Types page opens.

  2. On the action bar, choose New.

  3. In Code, specify a code to represent the miscellaneous article type.

    For example, you can create the types based on departments.

  4. In Description, specify a description for the miscellaneous article type.

Assign miscellaneous articles

On the Employee Miscellaneous Articles page, you can set up codes to track specific articles that you provide to employees based on their position within the organization, such as keys, computers, company cars, and memberships in company clubs. After you set up the codes, you can assign them to an appropriate article type.

The miscellaneous articles list is created for the employee automatically when the employee record is created and assigned to a position. The articles that are required for a position are set up on the HR Position Misc. Articles page. This functionality also serves as a means of determining what items must be collected when an employee is terminated.

To add the miscellaneous articles provided to employees

  1. Choose Lightbulb that opens the Tell Me feature., enter employee miscellaneous articles, and then choose the related link.

    The Employee Miscellaneous Articles page opens.

  2. On the action bar, choose New.

  3. In Code, specify a code to represent the employee miscellaneous article.

  4. In Description, specify a description for employee miscellaneous article.

  5. In Misc. Article Type Code, specify the appropriate type to which the article belongs.

  6. If this particular article is not to be collected upon termination, select the Do Not Collect On Termination checkbox.

  7. If you want the employee to view details about this article assignment in mySparkrock, select the Available on mySparkrock checkbox.

See also

Set Up HR Management

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