To run the Duty Station Conversion process:The Duty Station Conversion process applies only to OPM-mandated Duty Station changes.
You use the Duty Station federal maintenance form to manually update Duty Station information released by OPM. After updating the information, you can use the Duty Conversion process to move employees between two existing locations or between an old location and a new location that you have created.
See: Setting up a Location, Maintaining Duty Station Information
When you run the Duty Station Conversion process, the application moves employees to the designated location and updates their assignment, position, and organization information. The Duty Station Conversion process does not process records that result in a change in Locality Pay Areas. By running the Location Occupancy Report, you can determine if any employees have occupied a specific Duty Station.
See: Changing Locality Pay and Duty Station
Note: To simplify Duty Station conversions and ensure that the Duty Station code appears as the Location name in the product's List of Values, assign a unique Duty Station code to each Location and use the Duty Station code as the Duty Station Name.
To run the Duty Station Conversion process:From the Concurrent Manager, choose Duty Station Conversion.
In the Parameters dialog box, enter the following information:
In the Old Location Name field, choose the Location Name (the Location from which the employees are moving).
In the New Location Name field, choose the Location Name (the Location to which the employees are moving).
Choose OK to accept the parameters.
Choose Submit to run the process.
Resulting Updates
The Duty Station Conversion process:
Moves employees to the new location, changing the employee's Assignment Location
Updates the employee's position with the new location record and then displays the new location in the Position window
Updates Organizations that contain the location
Updates encumbered and unencumbered positions that contain the Location
If there's an error moving an employee from one location to another, the application enters an error in the Federal Process Log.
After determining the problem from the error message, you can complete an agency specific or NOAC 792 Change in Duty Station personnel action or NOAC 895 Change in Locality Pay for that employee.