Combined transfers are transfers where employees record a location and job assignment change with one transfer clock entry. For example, with one transfer an employee records switching from working as a Clerk in the Burden store to work as an Assistant Manager in the Baygood store.
When the <transfer_by_code> key is set to no in the <system> section, employees performing transfers at the clock are presented a list of locations to transfer to (if the employee can work at multiple locations) and a list of job assignments available at the selected location.
By performing work transfers as a combined transfer of a location and a job assignment, the clocks help to prevent issues that can arise in which employees are eligible to work different job assignments at different locations.
For example, an employee can work at the Baygood and Burden location, and as a Clerk or Sales Rep at the Baygood location but a Clerk, Sales Rep, or an Assistant Manager at the Burden location (as configured in the employee’s records in People). The employee, working at the Burden location, can’t transfer to the Assistant Manager job assignment and then transfer to the Baygood location, because the only job assignments they can work at Baygood are the Clerk and Sales Rep job assignments.
Employees can perform combined transfers by using the Work Transfer button, which is controlled by the following function in the config file:
<function id="combined_transfer" button=""
punchtype="Combined_Transfer" class="CombinedTransferFunction"
icon="work_transfer" key="a"/>