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Specialty Groups whilst still present in the TIS application as of 20 Jun 2018 are scheduled to be retired -

Categorising with Specialties

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• Curricula can have a single Specialty
• Curricula Specialty dropdown contents limited to Specialties with SpecialtyType of Curricula and status 'Current' <not implemented by TIS currently> 

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Posts

TIS allows a Post to be categorised with a Specialty in 3 ways as can be seen on the Posts UI below, these are defined as Primary Specialty, Other Specialty and Sub-Specialty. 

• Posts can only have a single Primary Speciality
• Primary Specialty dropdown contents limited to Specialties with SpecialtyType of Post and status 'Current' <'Current' is implemented in TIS but SpecialtyType of Post isn't at present> 

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• Posts can have multiple Other Specialties (chosen from Specialties with SpecialtyType of Post)
• Other Specialties dropdown contents limited to Specialties with SpecialtyType of Posts and status 'Current' <'Current' is implemented in TIS but SpecialtyType of Post isn't at present> 

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• Posts can have multiple Sub-Specialties (chosen from Specialties with SpecialtyType of Sub-Specialty) <'Current' is implemented in TIS but SpecialtyType of Sub-Specialty isn't at present> 

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These relationships are all stored in a TCS table called PostSpecialty as seen below using a PostSpecialtyType:

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• Placements can only have a single Primary Speciality
• Primary Specialty dropdown contents are limited to Specialties with SpecialtyType of Placement and status 'Current' <not implemented by TIS currently>

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• On Placement create, the Primary Specialty is pre-filled with the Primary Specialty of the parent Post
• Placements can have multiple Other Specialties
• Other Specialties dropdown contents are limited to Specialties with SpecialtyType of Placement and status 'Current' <not implemented by TIS currently>

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• Placements can only have a single Sub-Specialty (chosen from Sub-Specialties of the parent Post)

Note: there is an ongoing discussion / request with data quality leads to limit the  Placement Primary Specialty and Other Specialty dropdown contents to those of the parent Post

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