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How-to change or add Document Categories

Learn how to change or add to the document categories listed in a person record and configure settings for different security roles.

⚠️ Keep in mind

Only an HR Administrator can carry out this action.

Step 1: Navigate to Document Categories

  1. Click into Administration
  2. Go to setup and security and select Security settings
  3. Click into document categories

Documents

Step 2: Add New Categories

  1. Select Add New and name your category
  2. If you would like this category to be linked to attachments in a form, select the ‘Enable for Form Builder’ box
  3. Finally decide which security roles can Read, Insert, Update and Delete documents from this category. You will see options for line managers relating to their own documents (own files) and those they manage (Subordinate’s files)

    Read

    View existing documents, but can’t change them

    Insert

    Create or add a new document

    Update

    Edit documents that already exist

    Delete

    Remove an existing document

  4. If you need to delete a category click into it and press the Delete button. If this category has files attached to it a warning message will appear asking you to delete the items in the category first.

document categories 2

📝Note

For most categories only HR administrators would have insert, update and delete checked with self service/line managers only being able to read documents.