Create a Duplicate Employee

The Duplicate functionality allows you to duplicate the existing employees. You can select an employee, specify the number of duplicates they want to create, and then easily make any necessary adjustments to the duplicated employees. 

To create a duplicate employee, do the following:

From Workforce Planning Setup:

1. Navigate to Maintenance > WFP > Workforce Planning Setup.
2. On the Employees tab, click the duplicate icon and go to step 6.
   
   

From Planning Control Panel (PCP):

1. Navigate to the Planning Control Panel (PCP) and choose the desired scenario. If you are accessing this from the workforce Plannig Setup, 
2. Under the Budget Entity, select a Workforce template in Input mode.
   
   Note:

   If you have access to the Maintenance section, navigate to Maintenance > WFP > Workforce Planning Setup. Click the duplicate icon.

   
3. Click on the Employee Number you wish to modify to access their record.
4. Select an employee on the Employees page using the check box beside the Employee Number.
5. Click the Duplicate icon, and then specify the required number of copies. You can use the + and - buttons to increase or decrease the number of employee profile copies that you want to create.
   
   
   Notes:

   • By default, the number of duplicate profiles to be created is set as 1.
   • You can create up to 10 duplicates of an employee profile.
6. Click Duplicate to create one or more duplicate employee profiles.
   The newly-copied employee is displayed with the name preceded by Copy_.
   
   
7. To make changes to the duplicate employee, you can either:
   1. Double-click on the fields, make changes as required, and then click Save.
      
      
   2. Alternatively, you can open the employee profile, change the details as required, and click Save to process.
8. To update the Position field, change the Position Description field and save the changes. The Position drop-down will automatically display the updated Position Description.