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Sick leave period automatically entered in data fields

  • December 3, 2024
  • 6 replies
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Alok LE

Hello,

It's about the following: I have created two data fields on the employee profile. The category is called “sick leave” and the data fields are sick leave start date and sick leave end date.
If an employee reports sick, the start and end dates should be automatically entered into the data fields.
Unfortunately, I can't get it to work and would be happy to receive any advice.
Thank you very much.

6 replies

Hello, interesting idea. What would be the advantages of entering sickness in the employee profile instead of the Time off section?


Alok LE
  • Author
  • December 3, 2024

The background to this is that I would like to trigger an automatic notification to our tax office by email in the event of illness. If there is another option, I would be grateful for information.


Jessica Lane
Bobber

Hi ​@Alok LE 👋🏻

The fields you have created would not be automatically updated when an employee requests sick leave unfortunately. 

These would need to be manually updated or updated via import. 

 

However, if the reasoning is to send an email to your tax office to inform them of sick leave, you could use a task list for this instead. 

You can use the ‘Sick’ time off policy type as the anchor event:

 

When a request using this policy type is approved, the tasks would then trigger. 😊


Alok LE
  • Author
  • December 5, 2024

Thank you for your answer. I got one more question. 

So there is no way to automatically insert the start date and end date into the email to the tax office?


Lindsay Sinenberg
Bobber

Hi ​@Alok LE! That is correct - we currently don’t have any variables related to the time off data, available to be included into the body of the task, unfortunately ☹️  But I can confirm other customers have requested the same so I went ahead and tagged your company on the open feature request with the Product Team!


Hi all,

Is it possible to trigger a flow/ task that notifies us when an employee ends their sick leave?

At the moment we can be notified when an employee requests leave but not when they click Time-Off → Sick Leave Edit →  End date → All day →  Submit.

I have tried creating tasks and workflows but it seems there is no condition option for time-off - sick leave and anything that falls under it.