Hi Sumesh,
When we had a similar kind of requirement where users wanted the information of approved head count to be clearly known and also wanted the system to hire a person in lieu of outgoing person, we did the following things.
1) We did use the overlapping functionality for single incumbent positions or even for shared positions where the FTE / headcount is already achieved to facilitate recruitment and also hiring someone into that position.
2) We built a report that specifies in one column the approved FTE / head count and in another column, the current occupancy number for every position.
3) We have another column that specifies the number of vacancies per position i.e. (Current Occupancy - approved FTE). If this is positive value, then we can go ahead with recruitment and if this is 0 and we need to recruit, then users will go enter overlapping period equivalent to the notice period of the outgoing person.
4) When overlapping duration is entered and incoming person is hired and this report is run again, we have a one column that shows approved head count, a second column that provides current occupancy, a third coulmn with the difference (if this is negative, there exists an overlapping information) and a fourth column, the overlapping duration end date, which is effective date on which overlapping duration is entered + the duration added to it.
With this approach, our users are clear with approved head count, they are able to hire people and also they know against which positions overlapping information exits and what the duration or when overlapping should end.
Not sure, if users will be open to this kind of work around but it is serving our business need and our users are happy using this approach.
All the best and please do share if you succeed in getting any other working solution / customisation free / personalization free solutions.
Best Wishes,
Gopinath Mallela
Empower your Business with BlackBerry® and Mobile Solutions from Etisalat
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:03:21 +0400
Subject: Re: [ ORAHRMS ] Position Sharing