CAPS or no Caps

How is your demographic information on HR11 entered? in ALL CAPS or Proper Case?

We had a consultant tell us that all employee and dependent information should be entered in ALL CAPS. Including addresses.

Do you require all employee data to be in ALL CAPS?

the main issue I have, is when I user Lawson data for a mail merge letter, the employee name is in all caps, so the letter reads Dear JOHN, and the addresses for the envelope are in ALL CAPS.

Thanks for your feedback.

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unknown

Hi Marla, our employee information is entered in mixed case to avoid the issue you describe. I'm guessing the reason the consultant recommended all upper case is because the Lawson database is case sensitive, so having text data in all caps makes it easier to query. We are on premise and use SQL here, so we can just use the UPPER() or LOWER() function to change the mixed case text and make it easier to query.

jreese

Ours are Proper Case

marty

We use proper case for names, but use all caps for addresses because we copy the address from USPS to ensure postal standard and that is how they appear there.

john-miller

Total agreement here. Proper case and use the proper SQL functions to search.

bcain

Hello Marla,

We have been live almost 2 years and all data was loaded in ALL CAPS in GHR by the previous team - may have been on a similar consultant recommendation.

We are currently working on implementing TA and the ALL CAPS is not friendly for the outward facing needs of Recruitment so we are transitioning all of our data to Proper Case.

unknown

Hello BeaCain,

We loaded all our data as it was in S3, ALL CAPS into GHR not realizing how much it has affected Recruitment. I'm curious as to how you are accomplishing the transitioning to Proper Case? I would love for us to go to Proper Case.

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