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More About Attendance Module:

Attendance is the punch in / punch out of employees in order to track actual physical availability of work. Employee attendance and time entry are two different option to track two different things.

Attendance list and its form is available at Time entry day view which can be launch using My timesheet menu option

  • A time entry record is an employee activity on a project for a particular duration. This is useful for calculating employee actual employee time spent on project task.
  • Attendance is something an attendance record of the employee.Time In represents the time when an employee enters an organization and Time Out represents when employee finishes his daily work.
  • A case can be
    • 8:00 AM (Employee TimeIn through employee attendance)
      • Work started on a project task from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM. This is a case of timesheet record of recording employee activities on the project.
      • At 12:30 PM, Employee took a break or lunch for an hour.
      • Then start working again from 1:30 PM.
      • Perform a task from 1:30 PM to 4 PM (will be recorded in timesheet)
    • 4:00 PM (Out) (Employee leave with an attendance record of “Out : 4:00 PM)
    • This is a very typical case of attendance through which we can record one time in a record when the employee arrives and one timeout record when the employee leaves.
  • Attendance module of OfficeTimer also allows employees to enter their leave like sick leave, casual leave etc.

How to add new attendance record:

  1. Click on[My Timesheet to launch time entry day view
  2. In employee attendance form, selectIn “In / Out” drop-down. Select Out if you are recording time out of an employee.
  3. In Time field, select time of employee time in.
  4. Select Present in Absence dropdown.
  5. Click on Add to add this Time In entry.

How to enter employee leave record:

  1. Click on My Timesheet to launch time entry day view
  2. In employee attendance form, leave In / Out drop-down as blank.
  3. Leave time field empty.
  4. Select your required leave type in Absence drop-down.
  5. Click on Add to add thisLEAVE entry.

How to modify attendance record:

  1. In employee attendance list, click on Edit on record which you want to modify.
  2. Update this record with your required modification in Employee Attendance Information form.
  3. Click on the update button to update this record.

How to delete attendance record:

  1. In Employee Attendance List, click on Delete link to record which you want to delete.
  2. Click on Ok to confirm this delete on confirmation dialog box.