Attendance requests

Overview
Attendance requests are used within the system as a way for employees to alter their attendance records (e.g. request time off, submit a request for a business trip or work from home...) 
 Attendance requests can also be used to fix "issues" with attendance: For example, when an employee forgets to unregister before going home.

Create new attendance request
This action requires the "Create attendance requests" permission. 
 Attendance requests can be created in more than one way. 
   
 Create new attendance request through the create form 
 To create a new attendance request, click the " + " button, this will redirect you to the " Create new attendance request " form. 
 
 To create a new attendance request, you need to define the "from" and "to" dates, select an attendance event type, select the employee (for who the request is being create), the approver (who will approve/decline the request) as well as a mandatory description . 
 
 Create a new attendance request from your profile 
 Click on a day in the calendar, click the " Add new workflow request " button and fill out the new request form. 
 Submitting an attendance request from this page will sent an email to your lead, who will then approve/decline it. 
 
 Department leads can also create attendance requests for their employees on the " Workflow approvals " page.

Update existing attendance request
This action requires the "Update attendance request" permission. 
 When updating an attendance requests, keep in mind that this information is depended upon by the HR module to work properly, in regards to salary generation and attendance management. 
 
 
 Basic information 
 Details of the attendance request. 
 
 Date from 
 
 The start date of the attendance request's date range. 
 This date should be before "Date to". 
 
 
 
 
 Date to 
 
 The end date of the attendance request's date range. 
 This date should be after "Date from". 
 
 
 
 
 Attendance event type 
 
 The type of the attendance request and its attendance events. 
 This type determines the behaviour of the request and events within the HR module. 
 
 
 
 
 Is approved 
 
 Toggle that shows if the request is approved/declined. 
 This gets updated by the request approver. 
 
 
 
 
 Employee 
 
 The employee, to who this attendance request relates. 
 A request can be submitted by the employee themselves of by their lead. 
 
 
 
 
 Approver 
 
 The lead, who will approve/decline the attendance request. 
 
 
 
 
 Description 
 
 A mandatory description, that should contain details about the attendance request. 
 Description is always mandatory here. 
 
 
 
 
 Value 
 
 The value of hours of events in this attendance request. 
 
 
 
   
 Attendance events 
 This section lists all events that belong to the attendance request. 
 
 Here you can add, update or remove events that belong to the attendance request.

Delete attendance request
This action requires the "Delete attendance requests" permission. 
 To delete an attendance request, you can click the " Trash " icon on the row of the attendance request that you want to delete. 
 Attendance requests cannot be deleted, if they have been locked or if any of their attendance events have been locked. 
 
 Although attendance requests can be deleted, this should generally be avoided, unless the request is incorrect and has no attached events, in order to maintain data traceability within the HR module.