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How do I seat someone at a desk on the map?

Want to give people their desks while you set up a floor? This article shows you how to drag people onto desks in map edit mode, and how to take them off again.

Note: You can also allocate a desk from the desk’s panel without edit mode. See How do I give someone a permanent desk? To seat many people at once, use Excel. See How do I import people from Excel?

Seat someone on a desk

  1. Open the level’s floorplan and click the pencil to switch to edit mode.

  2. Click People in the tool column.

  3. Find the person. Use Search, or tick Not Allocated to list only people without a desk.

  4. Drag the person onto the desk.

    The People panel in edit mode.
    The People panel in edit mode.

OfficeMaps shows Person allocated. and the person’s name appears on the desk.

The person now sits on the desk.
The person now sits on the desk.

This is a permanent allocation: the desk is theirs every day until you remove them.

Remove someone from a desk

  1. Leave edit mode and click the desk.

  2. Under Allocations, click X next to the person.

  3. Click Remove to confirm.

    Click X next to the person to remove them.
    Click X next to the person to remove them.

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