ESS Screen Instructions

Use the Screen Instructions window to enter text that will appear at the top of grids in the following ESS windows: My Leave Request, My Leave Approvals, My Paychecks, My Year to Date Totals, My Leave Balances, My Documents, and My W2s.

You can format the text to make it more visible using many of the formatting tools found in Word documents, such as paragraph styles, font, point size, text & background color, alignment, and bulleted & numbered lists. You can also insert hyperlinks to other windows in AptaFund or elsewhere on the internet.

Enter screen instructions

  1. Select Screen Instructions from the Employee Self-Service menu, and the Edit Screen Instructions window opens with My Leave Requests selected in the Select Screen pull-down list.

  2. Select a different screen from the list as needed.

  3. Enter text, and format it.

  4. Optional. Insert a hyperlink by clicking the hyperlink icon in the tool bar. The Insert Hyperlink window opens.

  5. Click Save. Sample Edit Screen Instructions

  6. Repeat steps 2 - 5 to edit other screen instructions.

  7. Click Cancel when you're finished editing screen instructions. You're returned to the Home page.

You can view the screen instructions by selecting the screen from the My AptaFund menu. Sample My Documents window

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