Sage People HCM Terminology

Sage People HCM uses standard Salesforce terms, so if you're familiar with Salesforce you'll find your way around the HR Manager Portal more easily.

Key terms you will find useful are:

Term

Description

Tab

Used to organize information stored in Sage People into groups. By selecting a tab at the top of the Portal, you get access to all the data related to that tab.

Record

When you select a tab, the page displays information in rows. The information for each row is held in a record. For example, the Team Members tab groups all team member records together, with each record displayed on a separate row.

Related List

Information that is not part of a selected record, but is related to it. For example, the employment, objectives, and targets information for a team member record.

Field

Each record contains a number of fields, with each field describing an attribute of that record. Each field contains data of a particular kind, such as text, numeric, a picklist, a check box.

Link

A hyperlink providing a jump to more information such as another record, a report, or a website.

Search results in the Sage People help center display the definitions of terms we have defined in the Sage People glossary if your search term is an exact match of a glossary term.