While individual Departments may have unique needs, many settings can be applied universally across your entire office. Thats where the Global Department Settings page comes in handy, letting you streamline Department configuration and ensure consistent policies and practices.
Let's dive into the details.
Who can use this?
By default, only Office and Company Admins can access the Global Department Settings page.
Department Admins can access the Global Department Settings page once granted permissions.
Access Global Department Settings
To access your Global Department Settings, head to your Dialpad Admin Portal, then select Departments.
Assign Global Department Settings permission
By default, only Office and Company Admins can access the Global Department Settings page. Department Admins can access the Global Department Settings page once granted permissions.
To assign the Global Department Settings permission set, head to your Dialpad Admin Portal.
Navigate to Office
Select Users
Select Options beside the user you want to assign Global Department Settings access
Select Privileges
Select Give multi department settings access
Bulk holiday updates for Departments
Does your company have multiple Departments? Simplify holiday management by applying holiday settings to multiple shared lines at once.
From the Global Department Settings page you can see all holidays that are applied to your Departments.
In the Departments Column, select the number to see which Departments the holiday is assigned to.
Hover over the holiday to access management options such as edit, copy and clone.
Create a multi-Department holiday
To create a holiday and apply it to multiple Departments, head to your Dialpad Admin Portal.
Select your Global Department Settings
Navigate to Department Holidays
Select Add Holiday
Name the holiday
Select the date
Choose how often the holiday repeats
Choose if your Department will be open or closed for this holiday
Determine the holiday hours and routing rules
If your Business Hours are Closed, the Closed routing rules will automatically apply.
Select which Departments you want this holiday to apply to
Select Create