9.1 Team Members
Employee directory: link SharePoint users, assign manager, department, team, job title, and bill/cost rates.
9.2 Departments
Organizational units with an optional department manager used in approval routing.
9.3 Teams
Sub-groups within departments. The team lead is used for approvals and team-lead role scoping.
9.4 Approver Fields (Dropdowns vs People Picker)
Team lead, department manager, employee manager, project approver, and rate user fields use searchable dropdowns populated from the Employees list — not the SharePoint people picker. This ensures approvers are active employees with profiles in the app. Use Team Members to add employees first; use the people picker when assigning SharePoint users to new employee records or team membership.