The Attendance dashboard
The dashboard is the daily overview: how attendance is tracking, where absences are, and what needs looking at — without opening a report. Two minutes here each morning replaces most of the questions people ask by email at 10am.
Where: Calendar › Dashboard You need: the team attendance rights
When to use this, and when not to
| The question | Where to go |
|---|---|
| Who is unexpectedly not here today? | The dashboard — here |
| Is this a trend or a bad week? | Attendance reports |
| What is wrong with this specific day? | Events |
| What are we about to pay? | Timesheet |
The dashboard is for today. It is the wrong tool for analysis and the wrong tool for corrections.
What it shows
- Attendance rate — how much scheduled time is actually being worked
- Absence rate and absences — the counterpart, and who they are
- Attendance engagement — a summary of check-ins
- Attendance analysis — the fuller breakdown
- Actual time against scheduled
- Attendance rules and validation rule status, so misconfiguration is visible rather than silent
Filter by the usual dimensions to narrow from company-wide to one team.
The daily routine
Read it in this order — it moves from urgent to structural:
- Absences — who is unexpectedly not here, before the day is half gone and the shift is already short.
- Attendance rate against its normal level. The absolute number matters less than the change; a rate that drops on one site is worth chasing the same day.
- Anything flagged by rules — see Attendance validation rules.
What Happens Next
The dashboard is a starting point, not a record. What it produces is a short list:
- An unexpected absence → contact the person, and check whether it is a threshold rather than a no-show
- A dropped rate at one site → check the device error reports before assuming it is behaviour
- A flagged rule → resolve it in Events
Nothing here changes a record; every fix happens elsewhere.
What it cannot tell you
The dashboard reports the data it has, and Attendance has two failure modes that look like good news:
- People with no expected working hours are not counted as absent, because there is nothing to be absent from. They quietly flatter every rate. The Events page counts these as profiles with no EWH — check it alongside the dashboard.
- A broken check-in device produces missing taps, not visible absences, until the events are examined. See the error reports in Attendance reports.
A dashboard that looks perfect is occasionally a dashboard measuring nothing.
Tips
- Look at it at the same time every day. Its value is entirely in earliness; read at 4pm it is a history lesson.
- Learn your normal. A 94% attendance rate means nothing until you know whether your normal is 91% or 98%.
- Filter to your own team first, then widen. A company-wide figure hides the one site with a problem.
- Pair it once a week with the no-EWH count so the numbers stay trustworthy.