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EmployeeLink 2.0: http://employeelink.ucsd.edu

We are pleased to announce a new release of the EmployeeLink facility,
primarily affecting Employee Reporting. This new 2.0 version will become
available on Monday, November 16, 1998 at http://employeelink.ucsd.edu on
the Web. A presentation of these enhancements will be given at the DCTUG
meeting on Wednesday, November 18, from 2-4 p.m. in room 111A University
Center.

Since EmployeeLink 1.0 was released in May 1998, we have been continuously
reviewing input from the campus community regarding this facility and have
been looking for ways to improve its content, functionality, usability,
and accessibility. Following are the most important enhancements
contained in the new release:

* A new Home Page that is similar to the one used by FinancialLink. It
  includes direct links to frequently used reports and to pertinent policy
  documents and functional office Web pages.

* A new General Selection facility which makes selecting current employee
  population sets for reporting easier and more flexible. Existing and
  more specific queries will continue to be used for selecting sets of
  historical information and for special current employee selections that
  cannot be accomplished using General Selection.

* Access control for current population reporting has been widened to
  reflect the needs expressed by EmployeeLink users. This means that all
  but specifically identified sensitive data (e.g., ethnicity, gender,
  age, SSN, home addresses) will be viewable by those who have PPS Online
  access. Access to the sensitive data and to historical data will be
  limited to records of those employees who have had some association
  with a department contained in the accessor’s PPS departmental access
  profile.

* A redesigned Output Selection feature similar to that supported within
  FinancialLink has been added. Selected population lists will be
  automatically displayed in an abbreviated roster format, after which
  other output formats may be chosen to display the same data.

* Back-Arrow navigation within Employee History reporting has been
  enhanced to support the ability to return to multiple different levels
  within the selection/employee/action drill-down structure.

* A new “Confidential Information Roster” report has been developed for
  those requiring Gender/Ethnicity/Age information. Access to these
  secured elements will be available on the same departmental/association
  basis described above.

* Help information for the entire Employee Reporting facility has been
  expanded.

Elazar C. Harel Assistant Vice Chancellor Administrative Computing & Telecommunications