Employee attendance reports?

[Hans Manhave]

TAM has all these features and many I don't use.  Instead relying on spreadsheets, my own report writing etc. after using TAM for 26 years, I decided to start using one unused feature this year.  The employee attendance feature.  So far I have found that TAM shines at input, but sadly stumbles and falls flat on output.  There is no report on employee attandence!  I went to the oracle (aka KB) and found article 13047.  So there is a PMR #95509.  This is a problem from at least version 6.3 through 12.x??? 

Is employee attendance reporting available in TAM 2013 or TAM 2014?

[Conan_Ward]

In my 2014, I just have the hours avail/taken (search report, files, employees) and no access to the actual list of days taken/reasons/type.

[Jim Jensen]

I've never used it - never seemed very "friendly" - can't put in the number of days, just hours and takes manual resetting every year, I think. So, I tried it out too. Hadn't even noticed the "attendance list" button in a very long time. In the detail for an employee, it shows "sick days", but in the entry area, it's in hours. So which is it? Can't enter a range of days either. When people take a week off, I don't want to make 5 different entries of x amount of hours.  I think I'll stick to the spreadsheet.

[Hans Manhave]

Oh well, it could have been something useful.  Maybe some day I'll be hired as an Applied floor sweeper and can stick my constructive thoughts in the suggestion box outside the CEO's office.

[Jeff Zylstra]

We use a separate calendar in Outlook to track absences.  You just search the calendar for the person's name, and all of the instances of their illness or absence are listed.  It's helpful for determining how many Mondays and/or Fridays a person is off and determining patterns, if that ever becomes necessary. 

[Mark]

I wrote an excel application to track PTO which also allows us to see Mondays/Fridays. It counts days PTO taken, tracks dates and hours, allows us to add additional PTO like earned through our wellness program, and prints a nice little report we send to employees at intervals so they know what they have left.

It's not a punch clock though, it's filled out by the time sheet person using forms I built into it.

[Hans Manhave]

Not skilled enough to write an Excel application, this feature has kept bugging me.  As the year draws to an end, I am looking harder for ways to use the data entered.  Found that it is stored in client.dbf.  Using the TAM Report Wizard, link client.rec = ins.rec.  Using the client.key E, client.rectype T, ins.key E and substr client.misc1 at 7,2 = B4 gets me the current year records.  I'll fancy this up with a decent report.  Important thing was to know where the stuff was stored.