The person record and effective dating

One person, one record, forever. Somebody who leaves and comes back three years later is the same person record with a new work relationship — not a new person. That is the principle the whole model rests on, and it is why duplicate checking matters as much as it does. Person versus worker. The person exists independently of employment: candidates, contingent workers, former employees, emergency contacts and beneficiaries can all be persons without being employees. "Person" is the wider circle; "worker" is a thing a person is sometimes doing. Now effective dating, properly, because most of this product is date-tracked and most support calls are really about this. Three operations, and they are not interchangeable. Update — a new change from a date forward, history preserved: before that date the old value is still there and still true. Correct — amend the existing record, history overwritten: the previous value is…

In this module: Module 9 · Person

1. 1The person record and effective datingFree preview
2. 2Person number generation
3. 3Person types
4. 4Name styles and formats
5. 5National identifiers and addresses
6. 6Demographic information and lookups
7. 7Person search and keywords
8. 8Photos, duplicates and record synchronization
9. 9Batch loading workers
10. 10What breaks
11. 11Lab: configure the person record and load 200 workers