Manage HR Groups Best Practice

[Kohei Tominaga1]

Hello,

My situation:

I am a HR admin and have enough role to manage groups from Manage HR Group module.

But it is not permitted to change anything in Prod. Changes need to be done in a non-Prod and migrate it to Prod by XML to have the same configuration and data so that the non-Prod can be best instance for troubleshooting.

So, I need to raise a request to Dev team for this purpose.

Question:

What is the best practice for managing HR groups?

- HR Admin to make change in both instance manually?

- HR Admin to make change in non-Prod and request IT Admin to migrate?
- Any other way to give permission to migrate for HR Admin?

[Suzanne H]

You can save time by making changes to HR groups in one instance and exporting xml and loading in other instance(s). I manage HR groups in Prod manually, and export the xml from there and load it into my Dev and Test instances. I don't see any harm in managing HR groups directly in Prod because it's not a configuration change, you're simply adding/removing users, changing the manager, and modifying the Name, Type or Parent. However, I would not add roles to groups in Prod. I would add/remove roles in a sub-prod instance and complete thorough testing. Then export your xml and have it loaded into Prod.

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Thank you

[Kohei Tominaga1]

Hi, Suzanne

Thank you for sharing your experience.

Actually saying, I have the HR Admin role but do not have Admin role. So, I can not export and import xml file.

So, I need to request Admins to do that and I think it is worthless.

Do you know if there is any function only to permit export and import xml?

[Suzanne H]

You should be able to export xml from Production with the HR Admin role. 

[Kohei Tominaga1]

In my PDI, HR Admin cannot export xml file though it has HR admin role...