Linking Facilities and Departments

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In iHRIS Manage, the module ihris-manage-PersonPosition defines the position form which contains the field department and the required field facilty which are both independent lists. In this tutorial, we will discuss how customize iHRIS Manage so that, when editing a position, the departments displayed are dependent on the facility chosen.

This tutorial applies to iHRIS Manage 4.0, although the concepts involved can be applied to iHRIS Qualify as well. Please refer to these articles:

for background information on forms. You can see these changes in the Zanzibar-position module.

Overview

Our goal is to have the departments for a position to depend on the facility chosen for the position. There are two ways that one could do this.

Option A

Due to these weaknesses, we will not implement Option A in this tutorial.

Option B

We will implement option B in this tutorial.

Turning off the existing fields

Magic Data/Configuration Changes

Template File Changes

Creating the facility_department

Magic Data/Configuration Changes

Template File Changes