HRMS same designation for multiple Staffing plan

Frappe HR
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I have two questions about Designation and Staffing Plan.

  1. What is designation? Are Frontend Dev and Senior Frontend Dev different designations? Or just two grades of a designation Frontend Dev?
  2. I have Staffing Plan Jan 2025 from 1st to 31st and request for 2 engineers (designation is Engineer) and 1 accountant. We filled 1 accountant. After that, the company needs more engineers, so we need to create a plan Jan 2025 - Additional to hire 3 more engineers. I get the error like “Staffing Plan Jan 2025 already exist for designation Engineer”. So how can I create more plan or edit the number of vacancies? I don’t want to cancel the plan, because the accountant is filled.
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I ran into the same thing a while back and found that using separate staffing plans with the same designation worked fine as long as each plan is tied to its own department or project. I’ve also seen setups where teams are managed through custom fields or filters. If you have hr professional membership, you might get more direct ideas from others who’ve handled something similar.