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How to Manage Your Chris21 Environments
How many Chris21 environments do you need? Your Chris21 environments refers to the various Chris21 systems you have access to. What I'm referring to here is your 'non-live' environments, such as Test and Development. How many should you have and what are their...
Building the Chris21 User Community with LinkedIn
I have been more active on LinkedIn recently. While I've been a member for the last few years, I have tended to neglect it due to other priorities, such as working on building a Chris21 user community! As the 'Chris21 community' is growing I think it is worth taking...
Understanding the Concept of Leave Groups in Chris21
Leave groups in Chris21 are configured when your system is first implemented. Once they have been created you don't have to do a lot. For this reason leave groups can be a bit of a mystery to some Chris21 users. What is a leave group in Chris21? A leave group...
Chris21 Report Writer – How File Linking Works
One of the features of the Chris21 report writer is the ability to link files. I receive a lot of requests for help from users trying to do this. A while ago I wrote a blog about this very topic and it goes into quite a bit of detail. Hopefully after reading it you...
Chris21 Reporting from HR21: It Sounds Like a Good Idea
Chris21 reporting from HR21 has been a feature of the system for some time now. I've looked at this from time to time but haven't really found it to be very useful. With the possible exception of an e-Performance implementation where reports were made available to...
Did You Know You Can Include The Manager’s ID In Your Chris21 Reports?
There will be occasions when you want to include manager details in your Chris21 reports. For instance, you might be reviewing your organisation structure. You could run a report over the Relationships (REL) file but that can be a bit cumbersome. Let’s say you wanted...
How Chris21 Email Notifications Can Help Your HR21 Implementation
Chris21 Email Notifications and your HR21 Implementation One of the great benefits that an HR21 implementation will deliver is the ready access to information by employees. This is in addition to the many other benefits that you can expect from an employee self...
Chris21 Leave Balances Don’t Look Right? Try This Tip
Chris21 Leave Balances and the Leave Update Process From time to time clients will tell me their Chris21 leave balances are not reporting accurately. What shows on their reports is not what shows when they look up a leave balance on the Balances (LAC) form in Chris21....
Chris21 Gap Analysis Reports – How to Configure your Database
The ability to produce Chris21 gap analysis reports is one of the key features of the Chris21 Training and L&D modules. These reports allow you to analyse your organisation’s training effectiveness by identifying gaps in employee training requirements. Simply put,...
How to Manage Your Chris21 Databases
Many of you will operate two Chris21 databases. Your Live system and your Test system. This is the recommended minimum so that you have one system to do your testing in, rather than making unnecessary changes in your Live environment. While this two database...

Hi, I'm Tony Danher
I use my extensive knowledge of Chris21 to help users. One way I can do this is by writing articles designed to solve your issues and provide tips and tricks.
I want to show you how you can let Chris21 do the work for you so that you can eliminate time spent doing manual workarounds. It’s all in the setup!
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