Quick Start Guide
Contents

• Introduction
  
• Getting Acquainted with TIP
  
• How to Make and Modify Job Descriptions
  
  • Where to Start
    
  • The Job Description Screen
    
  • Finding Your Way Around the Tree
    
  • Typing in the Text Areas
    
  • Adding and Removing Items
    
  • Percentage Scores
    
  
• Creating an Employee Evaluation
  
• Closing Comments
  

Adding and Removing Items in the Tree

Usually, you’re going to need to do more than just fill in the text of the existing items.  To make changes to the tree structure, right-click on any item in it. 

For example, here’s what happens if you right-click on "Attention to Detail":

Rename means, of course, to change the name of this item.  (You can’t rename the very first node in the tree; its name is always the job title.)

Delete means to delete this item.

Add After means to add another item on the same level, after this one.  For example, if "Effective Communication" were not yet there, you could add it by doing an Add After at this position.

Add Within means to add another item at a lower (subordinate) level of tree structure.  If you wanted to break Attention to Detail up into several sub-items, you could do an Add Within to get the first sub-item, then go to it and do an Add After to get the next one.  There is no limit to how deep you can go, with levels and levels of tree structure, but we suggest that you stick close to the style of the examples in the TIP library.