GetCategories
Description : Used to retrieve information about staff categories, leave reasons, accounts, cost centers and project
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Absences
Adding an absence
Adding a second absence - replace or overlap
Part-time absence calculated based on scheduled hours
Replace or overlap part of an absence with a shift
Managing absence in partially locked period or absence partially transferred to payroll
Select different actions on individual absence shifts
Absence handling
Adding an absence schedule
Setting-dependent workflows
Base schedule
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People
Agreements
Add a person
Employee email is not unique
Edit a person's details
Password management
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End employment
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Base schedule FAQs
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Attest FAQs
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Can I change the idle text on a Maximus terminal?
Can I clear all stored fingerdata in my Maximus terminal?
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Why Can I Sometimes Not Punch in Using My Mobile Phone?
How Do I Turn Off the Option to Give Away Shift for Staff in the Mobile App?
Missing Push Notifications on Android
How Do I Activate Punching via Mobile?
Why Is the Schedule Visible During Unpublished Periods for Managers?
Is It Possible to Limit Where My Employees Can Punch in Using Their Cellphone?
Why Must a Manager Approve My Phone?
How Does the Mobile App Process My Personal Data?
Employee
Can I Select a Manager on the Employee Card?
Can I Set an Employee to Punch in and out Automatically?
How Can I Specify Access Rights for a Staff Category?
Good to Know When Moving an Employee
Staff Categories and Roles
Move an Employee
Google Calendar Not Updating Often Enough
What Do I Need to Think About When I Move an Employee?
Generating UT When Violating Minimum Rest/week
Is It Possible to Be Manager Over Several Units?
Email Address Is Already in Use
How Do I Activate Staff Sharing Between Units?
Password Security Levels
How Do I Terminate an Employment?
Deleting an employee
Calculation of the Minimum Rest/week - Warning
I Am Unable to Set an Agreement as the Main Agreement
How Can I See if My Employees Are Missing an Agreement Template?
Can I Create My Own Staff Report?
How Do I Activate/deactivate Access Rights?
Time
Karens rules (Sweden)
How Can I Make a Certain Salary Type Require Approval?
Reduction of Nominal Hours on a Bank Holiday
Reminders
How Do I Activate the Function Locked Salary Period?
Do I Have to Log in to Webpunch Every Time?
Why Am I Unable to See All Shifts That Belong to a Shared Employee?
How Do I Set Up Save Bank Holiday to Lieu
How Do I Create a Unit Group?
Where Can I Define Rounding on Timepunches?
How do I Unlock a Previously Locked Time period?
I Am Unable to Set a Certain Leave Type on an Employee
How Can I Make Sure Historical Timepunches Remain Unchanged?
How Is the Crossover to Normal Time (Winter Time) Counted in Quinyx?
Why does Time Tracker balance change without transactions?
How Do the Large Checkmarks Work in Timeview?
How Do I Add a New Cost Centre?
What Do I Need to Do to Let All Managers View Leave Applications in the Overview?
How Do I Allow All Admins to See Leave Applications?
Employees Are Missing in Transfer to Payroll, What Could Be the Cause of This?
How Do I Add a New Leave Reason?
Manually Changing Time Tracker Balances
Filter by Section on Shift or Employee
How Can I Copy Bank Holidays in Quinyx?
What Does the Lock Salary Period Do?
Why Does a Time Punch Generate 0 Punched Hours?
How Do I Set a Local Manager to See Only Certain Employees?
Warn if Shift and Punch Times Differ
How can I Set Shift-snippets to Be Deleted on Late Arrival?
How Is the Crossover to Daylight Saving (Summer Time) Counted in Quinyx?
Schedule
Could I edit or assign several shifts at the same time?
How do I Create a Fixed Schedule With Recurring Leaves ?
Can I Change Settings on Multiple Shifts at Once?
I Can Not Schedule My Employee, Why?
How Do I Create an Absence Schedule?
Is It Possible to Create a Part-time Leave for a Specified Time Period?
How to See Your Schedule
Why Am I Unable to Delete My Shift Type?
Employees Can Not See Their Schedule
Is It Possible to Change Start- or End-Date on a Leave?
How Do I Decide Which Units My Employee Can Be Scheduled on?
What Happens if I Change an Agreement After I Create the Shifts?
How Do I Create a Fixed Schedule With Vacant Shifts?
Bank Holidays
I Want to Delete Several Shifts at Once!
How Do I Roll Back a Fixed Schedule?
I Only Want to See Employees That Belong to My Own Unit in Scheduled Staff
Absence Schedule
Rules on Shifts During a Leave
Why Are Employees From Other Units Displayed When I Reassign Shifts From a Leave?
Section Managers See Users That Do Not Belong to Their Section
How Can I Print the Employee's Schedule?
Additional Time During Leave at the End of Schedule Period
How Do I Give My Employee a New Fixed Schedule?
Is It Possible to Create Multiple Special Days on the Same Date?
What Do the Colored Borders in MySchedule Mean in the Staff Portal?
Nominal Hours Calculation, Part Time Absence
Configuration and Settings
Agreement templates
Agreement Templates - Leave Types
Agreement Templates - Agreement Details
Agreement Templates - Time
Agreement Templates - Bank Holidays
Agreement Templates - Work Times/month
Agreement Templates
Agreement Templates - Overtime Periods
Agreement Templates - Rules for Hours
Agreement Templates - Time Trackers
Agreement Templates - Salary Types
Agreement Templates - E-signature
Agreement Templates - Availability
Agreement Templates - Unsocial Hours
Settings
Settings - Forms
Settings - Sections
Settings - Districts
Settings - Reminders
Settings - Global
Settings - Units
Settings - Texts
Tables
Tables
Tables - Additional Fields for Employees
Tables - Cost Centres
Tables - Overtime Methods
Tables - Integration keys/key types
Tables - Projects
Tables - Leave types
Tables - Salary Types
Tables - Leave reason types
Eligibility rules
Staff Categories
UT and Overtime Periods
Cost Calculations
Special Days
Shift Types
Access Rights
Bank Holidays
Organizational Structure
Parameters
Time Trackers
Staff Management
Notifications - Explanation of the Role-based hierarchy
Notifications for Leave Applications
E-Signature
Employee Cards - Communicate
Skills
Employee Cards - Additional Fields
Employee Cards - Terminate Employment
Employee Cards - Passive Employees
Employee Cards - Misc.
Import Employees
Employee Cards - Units
Employee Cards
Password Management
Employee cards - Sub modules
Assigning Agreement Templates
Employee Cards - Devices
Employee cards - Salary calculator
Employee Cards - Categories
Groups
Scheduling
Absence
Staffing (Auto Staffing)
Schedule Template
Fixed Schedule
Absence Schedule (General information)
Self Scheduling
Daily Schedule Management
Dashboard
Scheduled Staff
Reports
Webpunch
API / web service
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Updated 4 months ago
by
Stephan Hale
Description : Used to retrieve information about staff categories, leave reasons, accounts, cost centers and project
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