Due to the way that our organisation is structured, some staff have two roles. With the Performance Management features of 2.5, we are intending to use Totara as our platform for annual reviews, so all staff need to be set up with a manager for their role. If a staff member has two roles, they currently have two accounts so that they can have two managers and receive two annual reviews. I know there is a "Primary Position" and "Secondary Position" functionality but at the moment only the primary position appears to be useful for this purpose. Are there any plans to modify this functionality so that "Secondary Position" works in a similar way to primary position, because it would make the administrative side of having multiple roles vastly easier!
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Use of Secondary Position
We are also in the same position with many of our staff having 2 separate roles within the organisation. If we could also assign a manager to their secondary role thus displaying their details in both managers 'My Teams' tab and allowing reporting functionality it would make our lives alot easier.
Another perspective, and I would be interested to hear if this is at all common — we have seen an organisation where users may have two managers. We had to do some recoding so that both primary and secondary manager could see "My Team". The users don't actually have two positions, their Secondary Position and Organisation are the same as Primary, only the Manager is different.
Hi folks,
There is a feature request already for this functionality, I have updated it with your comments and raised its priority.
regards,
George.