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Delivering Payslips from Chris21
Consider these options to gain efficiencies when delivering payslips from Chris21 You already have a system for delivering payslips from Chris21 to employees and may have been doing it this way for a number of years. Even though this system may work perfectly well,...
Customising Chris21 Forms – How to Place a Field onto a Form
Using Field Definitions when customising Chris21 forms If you are customising Chris21 forms there are two processes to consider. The first is the Data Dictionary (DMA) where you create the field on the Chris21 file and the second is Field Definitions (FLD), where you...
Customising Chris21 the Right Way
Customising Chris21 - How to create a new field I have written in the past about customising Chris21 and how to do it properly. From my experience I have seen many examples of bad customisations and have helped clients to fix these so that they don’t continue to cause...
Chris21 Consulting Help – When to Use an Independent Consultant
Getting Chris21 consulting help from an independent contractor If you use the Chris21 HRMS chances are you will need help from a consultant at some point. Chris21 consulting help can mean many things: upgrade help, issues resolution, implementing new modules, help...
Use Workgroup Reminders to Manage Expiry Dates in Chris21
Workgroup reminders in Chris21 Workgroup reminders enable you to set up automatic email and diary alerts in Chris21. These alerts will help to keep employees and their managers up to date about upcoming key events. For instance, if employees require valid licences to...
How to Keep Leading Zeros in Excel When Publishing Chris21 Reports
Have you ever wondered how to keep leading zeros in Excel when you publish your Chris21 reports? This is a very common problem, especially if it happens to be your employee numbers that have the leading zeros. For instance, if your employee number is 001234 and you...
How to Use the Chris21 Menu Designer
Create a menu with the Chris21 menu designer There will be times when you will need to create a new menu using the Chris21 menu designer. The system does have what are called 'Master' menus that you can use, however you can't make any changes to these. So it's best...
Why You Should Revisit Your HR21 Implementation
You may have been using HR21 in your organisation for a number of years now. If so, you have probably moved on from the previous version to the much more functional ‘version 3’. For those who haven’t yet implemented HR21 now is a good time with the impending upgrade...
Chris21 Upgrade Help
The Chris21 upgrade to version 7.08 should be performed before the end of financial year 2013. Ideally you will already have the software and are planning the upgrade to fit in with your resourcing. It's always best to try to get the Chris21 upgrade under way as early...
Updating Skills in Chris21 Learning and Development
Updating skills in Chris21 is essential to maintaining your training database. Updating Skills in Chris21 should be included in your learning and development procedures. Whether you are using the standard Training module or the enhanced Learning and Development...

Hi, I'm Tony Danher
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