Category

Categories/Journals in Deputy relate to entries in the Deputy system made by managers about individual employees in their record or perhaps just in general about work that may need to be done in a location or area.

Categories in Deputy are related to Journal entries.

Data Element

Data Type

What is it

Mandatory

Id

Integer

The unique identifier of the journal record

No

Category

String

Whether the journal is positive or negative

Yes

Group

String

A group of a category is like a "tag" i.e. a dynamic way to bind together records - the ones that have the same group (a text string) are meant to be together - e.g. the Positive, Negative that new sign-ups get belong to the group Rating.

No

sortOrder

Integer

Decides the order with which Deputy shows these items in the applicable module e.g. the default accounts have Positive (sort-order 1), Negative (sort-order 2) and we aimed to show the Positive first.

Yes

Stafflog

Boolean True/False

This is a boolean - 0: record is not for journal (aka stafflog), 1: record is for journal. This is primarily always 1 in Deputy

Yes

Creator

Integer

Id record of the employee who added the record

No

Created

DateTime

When the record was first created

No

Modified

DateTime

When the record was last updated

No