Creating Associations and Searchable Fields

An association references the Position Object itself. Because of this fact, the MDF position object must be created prior to defining any association. An example of an association is detailed in the table below:

To create an Association, navigate to Admin Center→Company Settings→Configure Object Definitions. Select Object Definition and Position from the Search dropdown. Then, choose Make Correction from the Take Action dropdown.

Scroll to the Associations section and enter data in the appropriate areas.

Click the Details link to access more configuration information on the Association.

Make the desired changes or selections, and then click Done. Be sure to click Save for your modifications to become effective.

Within the same area of the Position Object as above, scroll below Associations to locate the Searchable Fields section as seen here:

At a minimum, externalName and incumbent should be utilized as searchable fields. To add more fields, simply click in the empty field and enter the correct field name. Once you have made the desired changes, choose Done and Save.

Once a field is added to the Searchable Fields section, it becomes available in the filters for the Position Tile. Not all position data fields are available for use in the position tile filters. One of the issues companies sometimes face is the position data that they would like to have as a filter (like Location or Division) may be a foundation object or a generic object, which is currently not supported.