Employee seats

Importing
When importing an employee, the workbench ID will automatically be set to the employee number. Once activated, the employee can clock into the workbench using their employee number.

Deactivating Seats
When you deactivate a seat you will to be able to re-use them for data collection purposes.  Be aware that deleting a seat may lose the history for the seat.

Resources such as employees and equipment records can be imported from your Enterprise Resource Planning application or created locally within LYNQ. It’s suggested that records are imported where possible to reduce additional maintenance.  When importing records, employees are imported directly from the Enterprise Resource Planning application and no further steps are required.

The steps below explain how to import employee resources from your Enterprise Resource Planning application and also how to create resources directly in LYNQ mom.

Importing employees and work centres into LYNQ from your Enterprise Resource Planning application

1. Select Seat Maintenance
2. Select Seats
3. Select Import
4. Select Import Employee or Import Equipment
5. Select the required resources
6. Select OK
7. Double click on the new employee or equipment to edit properties
8. In the group section, assign the user to the correct group
9. Click Active
10. Click Save

How to create a new seat in LYNQ directly for an employee

1. Select Seat Maintenance
2. Click Seats
3. Click New
4. Click New Employee
5. Enter a value in the First Name field
6. Enter a value in the Last Name field
7. Enter a value in the Workbench ID field
8. Enter the related Sage employee code in the Employee ID field
9. Click on Save
10. Click on Close
11. Double click on the new employee to edit properties
12. In the group section, assign the employee to the correct group
13. Click Active
14. Click Save