When to Synchronize Daily Absences

Synchronizing daily absences lets you apply absence rules to absences.

In Absence Types ancillary data, you can specify whether absences are recognized as absences when they occur on employees’ regular days off or on holidays. You can also enter rankings that determine which absences are recognized as absences when they coexist on the same day.

To apply these rules to operators’ absences, absences must be synchronized. Synchronizing absences involves determining which operator absences are recognized as absences (according to their absence type settings), and whether they occur on days off, holidays, or with coexisting absences. To make sure that absences are correctly recognized, absences must be synchronized when any of the changes listed in the following table occur.

Table 1. Changes Requiring Absence Synchronization
Change	Source
Absence added, updated, or deleted	Employee Profile screen Daily Activity screen Bidding screen Work Planner screen Absence Generation screen
Absence request granted	Absence Requests screen Automatic absence request granting
Absence request deleted	Employee Self-Service add-on module
Absence created due to late sign in	Sign-In Terminal add-on module
Day activated	Activate Day screen
Alternate roster bid rolled out	Bid Alternate Roster screen
Break event created	Schedule Server
Ancillary data change	One or more of the following Absence Types ancillary data field values changes: Rank Recognize On Day Off Holiday Day Type Group Matching Day Type Action Non-Matching Day Type Action One or more of the following Holiday ancillary data field values changes: Day Type Date
Ancillary group members change	Day Type ancillary group Employee Type ancillary group specified in an absence type
System property value change	OPS > Absence > When No Day Off Found system property OPS > Employee Profile > Default Day Off system property Note: You must synchronize absences manually if one of these property values change.