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Version: V3 (Ignition 8.3)

system.mes.personnel.newDepartment

Description​

Generates an empty non-persisted Personnel Department object to provide the structure required by the API to save a new record into the database. This method must be combined with the saveDepartment method in order to persist the record.

Permissions​

This method does not require any permissions.

Syntax​

system.mes.personnel.newDepartment()

Parameters​

ParameterTypeDescription
None-This method does not take any parameters.

Returns​

Returns a JSON representation of the newly created department object. The following is a list of keys and default values:

KeyDefault Value
namenull
descriptionnull
pathnull
parentIdnull
idnull
notesnull
enabledtrue
spare1null
spare2null
spare3null

Code Examples​

# Generate the object structure for a new department object with no initial arguments
department = system.mes.personnel.newDepartment()

# Set basic attributes for the new department
department['name'] = 'Engineering'
# (You can continue setting other properties as needed here)

# Save the new department to the system
saved_department = system.mes.personnel.saveDepartment(**new_department)

# Output the JSON representation of the saved department
print(saved_department)