There was none anywhere in the model, so no personnel-cost figure could
be produced at all, and an open position could not say whose budget it
would charge — which is the first question asked about a vacancy.
It hangs on the position, not on the person: the seat costs money even
when nobody sits on it. That is exactly the vacancy case. And not on the
org unit either, although it usually follows from one — a single seat
can be charged elsewhere (project, shared function) without the unit
moving.
As its own dated assignment table rather than a column, because
reassigning is an event with a date. Last year's costs have to stay
where they were incurred; as a column, every change would silently
rewrite every past report. Half-open [valid_from, valid_to), like
position_assignments and om_positions — in SAP OM this is A011.
25 cost centres seeded from the org tree: one per company, division and
department, with teams charging to their department, because a team is a
span of control and not a budget. All 823 positions were assigned from
their own start date, none left over. The number is the first five digits
of the org number, so it can be traced rather than looked up.
Reassignment refuses three things, each checked: the same cost centre
again, a switch on the day the current one started (that period would
never have been in force, and the range constraint says so), and a date
before the position exists.
Verified against the real data, which turned up a defect worth keeping:
a position that starts in the future is charged only from its start, so
asked about today it had no cost centre — and future positions are
exactly what the vacancy list is for. It is now read at the position's
own start date.
Two audit entries from the probe could not be deleted through the
application (the log has no delete policy — correctly), so I removed
them with the admin connection.
Still open, and the reason this is only the first of the three fields I
proposed: location and planned FTE.
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Two gaps in the positions view, both reported from use.
A position dated into the future was invisible. loadOpenPositions required
valid_from <= today, so a position decided now and effective at the quarter
boundary appeared nowhere until the day it began. The database already held
one — 60000824 "Neue Position", effective 01.09. — created through the
application and shown on no screen since.
Future positions now have their own section rather than joining the vacancy
list. They are a different statement: "nobody is here" and "this does not
exist yet" should not be counted together, and a position starting 01.10.
read as a vacancy nobody was filling.
Positions could only be created and deleted. Fixing a typo in the job title
meant deleting and recreating — with a new position number, which appears in
job postings, budgets and audit entries, and whose trail then breaks.
update_position keeps the number and records old and new values per field,
using the audit detail added earlier today.
Three things it refuses, as guards rather than remarks:
- Moving an occupied position to another unit. That is a transfer, with
history and reporting line, and belongs to the person — otherwise
someone changes department silently.
- Ending an occupied position, which would leave an assignment without
one.
- A second chief position in a unit, or an end before the start.
Verified against the live database, all rolled back: each guard fires with
its own message, the permitted edits go through, the audit entry carries the
changed fields. Open positions stay at 9 and the future one now appears in
its own section.
ESLint caught me priming the dialog's fields from an effect. Replaced by a
key on the component, so React rebuilds it per position and the fields
initialise from props — which also removes the flash of the previous
position's values on second open.
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