How to Manage Staff Members

This article will help you to learn about the Staff Members Tab

Table of Contents

How to open a Maintain Staff Tab
Create a new Staff Member
Searching for Staff Members
Edit an existing Staff Member
Adding a Note to a Staff Member
Toolbar Buttons
Hide Unhide Toolbar
Hot Keys
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How to open a Maintain Staff Tab

  1. To open the Maintain Staff tab, click on 'Staff'.
  2. This will open a new "Maintain Staff" tab.

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Create a new Staff Member

To create a new staff member, please do the following:

  1. Enter in the Staff ID.
    (Remember, this is what your end-users, including your drivers, will type into the login screen, so keep it simple)
  2. Enter in a password into the first password field.
  3. If you see the following message:

    1. Then the password entered in doesn't match your company's password policy. 
    2. You will need to change the password.
    3. Or changed your password policy in the preference section
  4. To see the password you typed in, click on the eyelash symbol

  5. Enter in the password again into the "Password Confirmation" field. 
  6. Ensure enabled is ticked
  7. Select the Users Role.
    Roles:
    1. define what Tabs and Screens can be used by the Staff Member.
    2. defines if the staff member is a Driver so that they are available in the Dispatch and Drivers Tab and can access IDS Mobile.
    3. are created and editing in the Roles Section.
  8. Fill in the "Contact Details" and "Emergency Contact" sections as needed.
  9. Click the "Save" button


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Searching for Staff Members

On the left hand side of the screen you can see your list of Staff Members

To scroll through your list, use the vertical scroll bar located on the far right hand side of the tab

You can filter your list of Staff Members by doing the following.

  1. Across the top of your staff members list you will see the following
  2. To filter by staff roles, check the box beside "Select", then select the role from the dropdown

    1. When you click on "Select" you will see this pop up:
    2. IDS Core is loading all the staff roles for each of your users.
    3. When completed, you can filter your users by their roles.
  3. To see "All" users, check the box beside "All"
  4. To see only Staff Members that are enabled, check the box beside "Enabled"
  5. To see only Staff Members that are Disabled, check the box beside "Disabled"
  6. To find the user by their name, simply start typing in the "Filter" field

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Edit an existing Staff Member

Once you have found the existing staff member, do the following:

  1. Double click on their name
  2. Or select their name and click the edit button located on the bottom of the screen
  3. This will load the Staff Member's record on the right hand side of the screen
  4. Make your changes.
  5. Then click the "Save" button

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Adding a Note to a Staff Member

Once you have found the existing staff member, do the following:

  1. Double click on their name
  2. Or select their name and click the edit button located on the bottom of the screen
  3. This will load the Staff Member's record on the right hand side of the screen
  4. You will see the "Notes" section located on the bottom right hand side of the screen
  5. To add a note, click on the "Add" button
  6. Enter in a "Name" for the note.
  7. Write in the details
  8. Then click "Save"
  9. A pop up will appear saying the Note has been saved.
  10. Click "Ok"
  11. You will see your new note appear on the left hand side of the "Notes" Section
  12. To edit a note, select the note from the left hand side of the "Notes" section
  13. Then click the "Edit" button
  14. Make your changes to the note.
  15. Then click the "Save" button
  16. To delete a note, select the note from the left hand side of the "Notes" section
  17. Then click the "Delete" button
  18. Then click "Yes"
  19. Then click "Ok"

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Toolbar Buttons

- Saves the changes

- Cancels the changes.

- Accesses this help page in the online Manual. 


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Hide Unhide Toolbar

By default, the toolbar is visible. To hide the toolbar, double click any white part of the toolbar.


If the Toolbar is hidden, it will look like this:

To unhide the toolbar, click on "view", then click on "Show Toolbar"

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Hot Keys

To use the hotkeys, you will need to hide the toolbar first, to do this please see above.

To see your hot keys, look at the top left hand side of the screen.

You will see under each drop-down there is a letter that has been underlined.

If you press the "alt" button on your keyboard and one of the above letters, a drop-down will appear.

For example if you press "alt" and "f" at the same time, the "File" drop-down will appear.

In the dropdown, you see under each option a letter has been underlined.

If you now press one of those keys, you will trigger the function.

For example, if you now press "c", you will clear the screen.

To be clear, to clear the screen you would:

Press "alt" and "f" at the same time.
Then you would press c.

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