Every field on an activity, what it does and what it does to pay. Use this when you are looking at an activity and want to know what a setting means, such as Primary working event, Round requested start up, Payment Ranges, Holiday Wage Rate or Include break in Night Differential. For how to add an activity and the settings that matter most, start with Activities and how they pay.

Where: Attendance › Settings › Schedules › Activities, then select an activity under Scheduled or Requested

You need: the Attendance Settings right

How to look up a field

Open the activity and select Edit.
Find the section below with the same heading as on the form.
Change the field, then select Save.

Changing an activity does not change days already recorded: each day keeps its own copy of the duration type, tardy and check-in settings. Use Refresh selected in Attendance › Event List to apply a change to past days.

General

Field	What it does
Activity Name, Color Code, Description	How it shows on the calendar and in lists.
Primary working event	Marks the activity a fixed monthly salary covers. Monthly-paid employees are paid their salary for it, adjusted by lateness, absence, overtime and holidays, rather than per hour.
Work Type	On work: attendance is tracked. Off work: a scheduled day off, such as Rest Day, which never changes pay.
Payment	Paid or Unpaid. Unpaid adds no pay. A Scheduled Unpaid activity never deducts from a monthly salary; a Requested one does.
Tax	Taxable or Not taxable, for paid leave such as maternity leave.

Employee Amendment Requests

What employees may change when they ask to amend this activity: Branch (to work at another location), Cost Centre (to tag time to another cost centre) and Holiday Type (to mark work on a holiday type). Reject Overlapping Activities stops new requests that overlap an existing activity.

Requires Approvals

Manager Approval: all the Attendance Approvers in the employee's Team Org must approve before it reaches the calendar.
Employee Consent: the employee must agree after any manager approval.
Approvers (Requested activities): Primary, Secondary and Tertiary approvers used instead of the employee's own.

Restrictions

Requires attachments: a file must be attached to request the activity. On Requested activities, Require attachments at sets the number of days from which it is required.

Filing limits and notice periods are on Request Rules.

Automation

Schedule on holidays: scheduled activities skip holidays unless this is on. Use it for people who regularly work holidays.
Schedule on rest days (Requested): use it for "working on a rest day" activities; otherwise rest days are skipped.

Wage settings

Field	What it does
Wage Type	The heading on payslips and reports: Basic salary, Holiday pay, Overtime pay, Hazard pay, Night shift pay or Leave pay.
Wage Basis	Basic daily wage, Gross daily wage, Basic hourly wage or Gross hourly wage. Gross adds the other payments set in Payroll.
Wage paid	Wage, Fixed, Range - Rate, Range - Fixed or Range - EWH Fixed.
Wage Rate / Fixed hourly wage	The % of Wage Basis paid, or a flat hourly amount with Fixed.
Duration Type	Limited, Excess, Excess less scheduled break or Actual hours (no tardy).
Round Hours	Rounds the paid hours to 2 decimal places of an hour.
Minimum request duration	Shorter requests are refused. Ad Hoc requests are exempt.
Round requested start up / Round requested end down	Rounds a requested start up, and end down, to whole blocks such as 15 minutes, so only whole blocks are paid. Actual times are kept.
Ad Hoc minimum by custom field	Pick a profile custom field, then a Minimum in minutes for each value, or No minimum. Shorter requests from people with that value are refused, checked on the rounded times.
Payment Ranges	For the range types: each Tier has a Threshold in hours (or % of expected hours) and a Rate or Fixed Amount.

Tardy settings

Field	What it does
Check-in Required	Off waives check-in for everyone on the activity. On only applies if the employee's profile also requires it.
Deduct Tardy	Tardiness and absence come off pay.
Tardy Grace	How late check-in can be before it is tardy. It applies to check-in only.
Deduct Tardy Grace	Once someone is tardy, the grace minutes are deducted too. Otherwise only the time past the grace counts.
Tardy Rounding	Rounds tardiness up, which increases the penalty.

Overtime window

Allow overtime window: lets an overtime window be set on this activity's events. People can work past the shift up to the window end and be paid overtime without approval. The window times are set on the event.
The section has its own Wage Basis, Wage Type, Wage paid and Wage Rate for window hours. Range - Rate pays window hours on a tier table, like the Overtime activity. In Indonesia the hourly wage is 1/173 of the monthly wage.
Overtime window rounding and minimum: counts window time with an overtime activity's request rounding and category minimums. Actual times are kept.
A break can be deducted from window overtime by Break after and Break deducted in Attendance Rules.

Holiday pay

With Automatic holiday pay on, set a Wage Rate for each of Rest Day, Holiday, Double Holiday, Rest Day & Holiday, Special Holiday, Rest Day & Special Holiday and Double Holiday & Rest Day. Holiday Wage Rate is an additional % on top of the Wage Basis and Wage Rate; with Fixed, it is a Holiday Fixed Hourly Wage. Off, payroll treats the activity's days as having no holiday type.

Night differential

With Automatic night differential on, hours between Start Time and End Time (default 22:00 to 06:00) earn the Premium Rate. Include break in Night Differential counts break time in those hours instead of taking it out.

Access

Department, Position and Profile Groups limit who can be scheduled for the activity. Admins can schedule every activity.

Requested activities only

Field	What it does
Gender	Limits the activity to male or female employees, or All.
Conditions	Text the employee must agree to before submitting.
Maximum days requestable	The most days in one request.
Emergency leave allowance	Requests an employee can file as emergency leave in a cycle. Emergency leave that breaks a Request Rule is counted against this instead of being rejected.
Reset type	Lookback period, a rolling number of days, or Calendar month.

Balances, accrual, carry-over, probation and encashment fields are explained in Leave types and policies and Leave balances and accrual.

Tips

Test a changed activity on one person and check the event and the payslip line before relying on it.
Change wage settings between payroll periods. A mid-period change prices the same period two ways.

Activity settings: field reference