How to Add a New Department

In this article, you will learn what a department is and how to set one up.

5 min task

What

Every site / community needs at least one department to operate. Departments are used to group housing units. Depending on the size of your organization, you may need more than one department. More departments will allow for more differentiation within your organization.

Why

A department can be a certain floor in your organization or a group of housing units.
Having different departments allows for a different way of working and reporting depending on the department. Each department can have a unique escalation procedure which is best suitable for the department and care staff. When you have multiple departments, the dashboard and other reports will feature filtering options, allowing you to sort data by different departments.

Setting up a department 

You can easily create your first department or add more under Departments in the left menu.

Detailed Steps

1. Go to Departments in the left menu.
   
2. Click on + add in the upper right corner.
   
3. Choose the type of department
   
4. Fill in the name of the department
   1. If you do not want to set the wifi on this department level, click save. You have now added a new department.
      
   2. If you do want to set the wifi on this department level, select the right WIFI security type and fill in the required fields to set up the wifi. In this case, we’ll choose for ‘WPA Personal’ which requires us to fill in the WIFI SSID and the WIFI password. Once filled in, click save. For more information about setting up the wifi, go to set WIFI.
      

You have just created a department. You will see a list of departments.

Now you can start adding housing units to your departments. Unsure of how to do this? You’ll find all the information on adding a new housing unit here.

Still have questions? Contact Nobi Support.