Adding Base Event Specific Impact Options for Exception and Result Events

Overview

Administrators can apply event-specific impacts to exception and result events. This feature allows you to select which base events such as Annual Review or Sabbatical eligibility are affected by a specific update, providing precise control over timeline adjustments.

How It Works

Follow these steps to apply impacts when adding or editing a Result or Exception event on a faculty member's timeline:

1. Navigate to the faculty member's timeline under Manage Faculty. Click on the Faculty's name.

2. Click on either an existing Event in timeline or click Add Event.

3. Fill out Event, Start Date, End date (if applicable). Select Impact to Career Path: Choose Delay or Advance.

4. Select Scope: Choose between the following options:

   • Delay/Advance All Subsequent Events: Applies the impact to every event following the current one.

   • Delay/Advance Specific Event(s): Allows for targeted selection.

5. Pick Events: If you selected specific events, a multi-select list appears. This list contains all the base events currently on that faculty member's timeline.
   Note: If an event repeats (such as an Annual Review), it appears once in the list. Selecting it applies the impact to every occurrence of that event.

6. Enter Duration: Specify the number of Academic Years the selected events should shift. This must be a whole number.

7. Click Save and validate timeline has delayed/advanced event(s).
   Important: If an event or a recurring instance of an event occurs in the past, the system ignores those instances. They do not receive the impact.

Key Limitations

• Single Impact Type: An individual exception can either advance events or delay them. It cannot do both. To move some events forward and others back, create two separate exception events.

• No Partial Shifts: Impacts must be entered in full academic years. The system does not support shifts of partial terms (e.g., 6 months).

• All-or-Nothing for Repeating Events: You cannot select a specific year of a repeating event (e.g., "only the Year 3 Annual Review"). Selecting the event type impacts all instances of that event title.

• One Impact per Event: A result or exception event can only have one type of impact: Advance OR Delay. For example, a single event cannot delay a Tenure Review while simultaneously advancing an Annual Review.