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# People Connect And Dashboard Attendance Setting
### **People Connect And Dashboard Attendance Setting**
The **People Connect & Dashboard Attendance Setting** page controls two things on the ESS dashboard and mobile app — the **People Connect** employee directory and the **Team Attendance** card.
Both are set up on the same page, and each one works on its own. Turning one on or off does not affect the other.
**This helps in:**
* Controlling what employees see on the ESS dashboard from one page
* Showing the employee directory only to selected business units or categories
* Showing team attendance only for the teams you create
**Open the Setting Page**
**Path: Cloud → ESS Settings → Profile Info → People Connect & Dashboard Attendance**
1. Log in to the Pocket HRMS Cloud Portal and click **ESS Settings** on the left menu.
2. Click **Profile Info**.
3. Click **People Connect & Dashboard Attendance**.
The page opens with two sections — **People Connect** and **Team Attendance**.
### **People Connect Setup**
This section decides who can open the **People Connect** directory on ESS, and which employees they can see in it.
**Step 1: Turn On the People Directory**
Turn on **Allow Access to People Directory**.
The page shows **People Connect is activated on ESS** when it is on, and **People Connect is deactivated** when it is off.
**Step 2: Choose Who Can Be Seen**
Under **Visibility Access**, choose one of the three options below.
| **Option** | **Employees that can be seen** |
| ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| **All Employees** | Every active employee in the company |
| **Business Unit Wise** | Only employees of the business units you select |
| **Category Wise** | Only employees of the categories you select |
**Step 2.1: All Employees**
No further setup is needed. The directory shows every active employee.
**Step 2.2: Business Unit Wise**
a. Under **Business Unit Source**, choose **Department**, **Location** or **Branch**.
b. Under **Select Business Units for People Connect**, tick the units you want to include. Use **Search** to find a unit, or **Select All** and **Clear All** to tick or untick the whole list.
**Step 2.3: Category Wise**
Under **Select Categories for People Connect**, tick the categories you want to include.
Use **Search** to find a category, or **Select All** and **Clear All** to tick or untick the whole list.
### **Team Attendance Setup**
This section decides whether the **Team Attendance** card appears, and which teams it covers.
**Step 1: Turn On Team Attendance**
Turn on **Activate team attendance on ESS & Mobile app**.
The page shows **Team attendance is activated on ESS & Mobile app** when it is on, and **Team attendance is deactivated** when it is off.
**Important:** The rest of this section stays greyed out until this is turned on.
**Step 2: Create and Manage Teams**
**Step 2.1: Create a Team**
a. Under **Create Team**, choose the **Business Unit**. You can choose only one, and every team is created from it. For example, if you choose **Department**, all teams are created department wise.
b. Under **Business Value**, tick the values you want. Use **Search** to find a value, or **Select All** and **Clear All** to tick or untick the whole list.
c. Click **+ Create**. The values you ticked are added to the **Created Teams** list.
**Important:** Once teams exist, you cannot change the **Business Unit**. Delete all the teams first.
**Step 2.2: Set the Team Attendance Options**
Tick **Enable team attendance** to show attendance data.
Tick **Enable showing punches on dashboard** to show punch timings along with each employee's attendance status. When this is off, only the status is shown — **Present**, **Absent**, **On Leave** or **On Duty** — without any punch timings.
**Important:** If you untick **Enable showing punches on dashboard** and click **Save**, **Show Punches** is turned off for every team in the list. To control punch timings for one team only, use the **Show Punches** toggle on that team's row.
**Step 2.3: Check the Created Teams List**
The **Created Teams** list shows every team you have added.
| **Column** | **Description** |
| ------------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| **Business Unit** | The business unit the team is based on |
| **Business Value** | The value within that business unit |
| **Team Attendance** | Turns attendance data on or off for that team |
| **Show Punches** | Turns punch timings on or off for that team |
| **Actions** | Holds the delete icon |
**Step 2.4: Delete a Team**
Click the delete icon in the **Actions** column.
The **Delete Team?** window opens. Click **Yes, Delete** to remove the team, or **Cancel** to keep it.
**Important:** After the team is deleted, the employees in it can no longer see team attendance. The action may be recorded in the audit trail.
**Save the Settings**
Click **Save** at the bottom of the page.
**Important:** One **Save** covers the whole page. Set up **People Connect** and **Team Attendance** as needed, then click **Save** once.
### **What Employees See on the ESS Dashboard**
| **People Connect** | **Team Attendance** | **Shown on the ESS dashboard** |
| ------------------ | ------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| On | Off | **People Connect** card only, with no attendance data |
| Off | On | **Team Attendance** card only, showing the teams you created |
| On | On | Both cards. **Team Attendance** shows the teams you created, and **People Connect** shows employees as per the **Visibility Access** option chosen. |
| Off | Off | Neither card is shown |
### **Team Attendance Card**
The **Team Attendance** card shows the team's status for the day. **Last Updated** shows when the data was last refreshed. Click the refresh icon to update it.
The card groups the team by status.
| **Status** | **Shows** |
| ------------ | -------------------------------------------- |
| **Present** | Team members who have punched in for the day |
| **On Leave** | Team members on leave for the day |
| **On Duty** | Team members marked on duty for the day |
| **Absent** | Team members marked absent for the day |
Each status shows a count and a **See all** link. Click **See all** to open the full list of employees under that status.
### **People Connect Card**
The **People Connect** card gives employees access to the directory.
Click **open** to view it.
**My Team**
**My Team** shows the employees the user is allowed to see.
When **Visibility Access** is set to **All Employees**, **My Team** shows every active employee in the company. When it is set to **Business Unit Wise** or **Category Wise**, it shows only the employees of the selected business units or categories. Employees outside that scope are not shown at all.
**Today Attendance**
Filter the list by the day's attendance status — **All**, **Present**, **On Leave**, **On Duty** or **Absent**.
**Search**
Type a name, employee code or designation to find an employee.
**Employee Cards**
Each employee is shown as a card with the details below.
| **Detail** | **Description** |
| ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Photo | The employee's profile image. If there is no image, their initials are shown instead. |
| Name and employee code | The employee's name and code |
| Attendance status | The employee's status for the day |
| Designation | The employee's designation |
| Business unit | The employee's business unit |
| Location | The employee's location |
| Category | The employee's category |
| Email address | The employee's email address |
| **Punch In** and **Punch Out** | The employee's punch timings for the day. These appear only when **Enable showing punches on dashboard** is on. When it is off, they are removed from the card and only the status is shown. |
| **On Leave From** | The date the leave starts. This replaces the punch timings for an employee who is on leave. |
For an employee on leave, the status also shows the date the leave runs until.
**Employee Details**
Click **View** on a card to open the **Employee Details** window.
The window header shows the employee's photo, name, designation and employee code.
Below it, the details are split into two panels.
| **Panel** | **Details shown** |
| ----------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| **Work Information** | Department, category, location and reporting manager |
| **Contact Information** | Work email, personal email and mobile number |
Where a detail is not filled in for the employee, the window shows **Not Available**.
Each detail under **Contact Information** has a copy icon next to it. Click the icon to copy that detail, then paste it wherever you need without typing it out.
Click **Close** to return to the directory.
**For any queries, contact** [**support@pockethrms.com**](mailto:support@pockethrms.com)
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