If the preference Use extended selection has been checked in the Selection options, you can define a range of Employees to view for the TMS Group functions by clicking on the extended Group drop-down list in the Supervisor toolbar.

The Employee selection window will be displayed

Single

This option is for selecting one person from a drop-down list of Employees (as shown above).

When a single Employee is selected, the extended Group drop-down list will be labelled 'Viewing Single':

All

This option is for selecting all the Employees you have access to.

When all Employees are selected, the extended Group drop-down list will be labelled 'Viewing All':

Range

This option allows you to select groups of Employees to include from Mitrefinch TMS. There are three drop-down lists to use to define your range of Employees: Group, Start and End. In the following example, the Group options are: 'Employee', Department' and 'Employee title'. The 'Department' field has been selected:

When you select a value from the Group list, the Start and End lists are populated with relevant options. In the following example, 'Department' has been selected from the Group list and the Start and End lists contain a list of 'Departments'. This allows you to select all Employees in a certain department, or in a range of departments:

In the example above, the selection would cover all Employees with the following values against the Department field in Mitrefinch TMS: 'Warehouse', 'New Dept', 'Office' and 'Reception'. Employees with 'Maintenance', 'Kitchen' or 'Factory' recorded would be excluded from the selection.

When a range of Employees are selected, the extended Group drop-down list will be labelled 'Viewing Range':

Multiple

Use this option to create a custom selection of Employees by applying filters to your list. Using this method, you can create a custom selection using various lookup codes (such as Employee, Department, Job detail). When the page is first displayed, the lookup code fields will be empty as in the following example:

To make a selection, click on a drop-down lists and select which values you wish to include in the Group list selection. In the following example, 3 Employees have been selected with the options for Department and Job detail selected to filter the Employee selection:

The Match field has two options:

• Any — with this option selected, Employees who match any of the selected values will be included in the Group list selection. In the previous example, any of the Employees selected in the Employee field will be include in the Group list selection if they are either from the 'Account' department and/or have the Employee title of 'Mr'.
• All — with this option selected, only Employees who have all the selected values will be included in the Group list selection.

You may clear your selections at any time by clicking the Clear button in the left-hand pane.

When multiple Employees are selected, the extended Group drop-down list will be labelled 'View Extended':

Saving and Using Selections

Mitrefinch TMS allows you to re-use previous Employee selections. To use the Employees you selected the last time you used any Default selection page, click Previous selection in the left-hand pane. The page will display the previously selected values.

To save a selection for future use, click Save in the left-hand pane. You will be prompted for a name for your selection. Any saved selections appear in the lower half of the left-hand pane. Click on the saved name to open the relevant selections with the saved values. In the following example, a range of employees based on departments was saved as 'Department range':

The option to Delete the currently selected saved selection is available in the left-hand pane.

When you have made an appropriate Employee selection click  Apply . Only the Employees you have selected will be available to view in the Group functions.