There are some best practices that you should follow when configuring and maintaining your attendance tracking system in Dayforce:
Effective Dates for Attendance Records
Before You Begin: This section applies only when your attendance policy is set up with an attendance rule policy.
If your attendance policy is linked with an attendance rule policy, it’s important that the effective periods of the same attendance records don’t overlap in either policy.
Consider the following configuration:
- In Pay Setup > Attendance in the Attendance Policy tab, in the Grade sub-tab, the “Grade 1” grade is assigned to the attendance policy.
- In Pay Setup > Attendance in the Attendance Rule Policy tab, in the Grade tab of the slide-out panel, an instance of the Base Grade Rule is configured with the “Grade 1” grade.
To avoid calculation issues, these “Grade 1” records can’t be effective at the same time. You must end-date one record and update the other record to become effective the day after the other record’s effective period ends:
Attendance policy example:
Attendance rule policy example:
Attendance Recalc Background Job
This job’s primary purpose is to fix problematic attendance data. If you’ve configured attendance management functionality in Dayforce, consider the following recommendations for running and scheduling this job:
- Schedule this job to run after a scheduled instance of the Pay Summary Recalc background job. Because the Pay Summary Recalc job can take a while to process, you should schedule the Attendance Recalc job to run about two hours after the Pay Summary Recalc job to account for its running time.
- Configure the Pay Summary Recalc job with the Skip attendance calculation checkbox selected so that the Attendance Recalc job is responsible for evaluating attendance changes.
See Pay Summary Recalc and Attendance Recalc.