Setting up Attendance Marking

Enabling attendance marking in Schoolbox

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1. Navigate to Administration > System Settings > External DB.

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2. Toggle on 'Enable Online Attendance' to 'ON'. 

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NOTE: This option is only available for schools using Synergetic and TASS.

3, Navigate to 'Show Attendance in Calendar' and use the drop down menu to select how many days in the past staff are able to mark attendance in the calendar. 

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NOTE: This is the number of days, including today, that staff are able to mark attendance in the calendar. Weekends are included. 

4. When done, select Save.

Synergetic Attendance Permissions

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Marking attendance will additionally require the following permissions on the specified tables:

Read

  • luAbsenceReason
  • luAbsenceType
  • TimetableSubstitutes
  • pvTimetableDefinitionAll

Execute

  • spiwkAttendances
  • spswkAttendances_ws
  • sptwkAttendances
  • fnTimeStr (Found under Functions->Scalar Functions)

Write (INSERT/UPDATE)

  • wkAttendances