Create a Department

Departments are used to indicate the owning and/or impacted departments of documents, owning department of quality events, used when creating Learners and building the Training Matrix, and (if utilized) can be used to automatically assign Learners to a Learner Role.

Departments are a required type of reference data and should be one of the first things you do in the system.

Create a Department

To create a new department:

1. Navigate to Quality Admin > Quality Data and select Departments from the Quality Data drop-down.
2. On the All Departments page, click Create.
3. On the Create Department page, enter the Department Name.
4. Optional: Enter the Department Code.
5. Click Save. Vault creates the new department in the Active state.

Edit a Department

To edit an existing department:

1. Navigate to Quality Admin > Quality Data and select Departments from the Quality Data drop-down.
2. On the All Departments page, click the Department Name of the department you want to edit.
3. On the Department page, click Edit ().
4. Edit the Department Name and Department Code as needed.
5. From the Status drop-down, select Inactive to deactivate the department, or select Active to reactivate the department if it has been deactivated.
6. Click Save to save your changes.