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title: Why do my Employees have a blank ID when setting up a CAD Unit?
description: Why do my Employees have a blank ID when setting up a CAD Unit?
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# Why do my Employees have a blank ID when setting up a CAD Unit?

When setting up a new unit, you may notice that some of your Employees have a blank entry for "Call #" in the Available Employees or Associated Employees list:

![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.freshdesk.com/data/helpdesk/attachments/production/43379294331/original/bulmQCsa4C80VN_ndBFScucPhEK4AQKrEQ.png?1671006930)

This is usually caused by recently added employees who have never been used in another Unit before.  This does not cause any loss of functionality and is resolved after the unit/employee is used in CAD once the CAD Unit is created and deployed by a dispatcher.

 

 

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