Control Center

The Control center page allows you to view and take action on notifications.

Notification categories

Notifications in Control Center are organized into the following categories:

Note: Depending on configuration not all categories are displayed.
  • Attendance — Messages related to attendance such as perfect attendance notifications, attendance infraction notification.
  • Devices — Alerts on Device status.
  • Exceptions — Any exceptions from the timecard such as missed punches, unexcused absence, and long breaks.
  • Leave of Absence— Notifications generated by Leave of Absence cases.
  • Leave of Absence Requests — Requests generated by the Leave of Absence product.
  • My Requests — Your own requests and responses to those requests. You can view all Employee Self Service requests from this category, including:
    • Time Off Requests — Request from employees for time off.
    • Open Shift Requests — Request from employees to fill an open shift.
    • Self Schedule —Request related to shifts employees scheduled themselves.
    • Shift Swap — Request from employee to swap a scheduled shift with a shift that is scheduled for another employee.
    • Availability Change — Request from employee to change their availability in their schedule.
  • Notices — Provides informational messages or announcements from managers to employees. Some notices have an action you can take (either to select OK or Yes/No). You can take action in the Details panel when you select the notification.
  • People Operations — Notifications about employee documents and HR requests.
  • System Messages — Informational messages from the system such as request period alerts.
  • Tasks — Any tasks assigned to you by custom business processes.
  • Timekeeping Requests — Requests generated by timekeeping.
  • HCM Notifications — Notifications imported form the HCM application.
  • HCM Todos — To dos imported form the HCM application.

Depending on the notification category, notifications will expire after differing amounts of time:

Notification Category

Expiration Duration (days)

Time Off Requests

365

My Requests

365

All other notification categories

30

Filter Notifications

Refine Notifications

Indicators

Depending on the notification category you have selected, and whether you are a manager or an employee, a different set of relevant action icons are available.

Common icons

Show Detail— Select to show the Detail panel.

Hide Detail— Select to hide the Detail panel.

Select All— Select all visible notifications.

Refine— Select to refine the notifications. See Refine Notifications.

My Actions— Select to perform business processes.

Go To— Select to navigate to a different product area with the selected data.

Select Status— Select to filter notifications by their status.

Select Timeframe— Select to filter the notifications by the timeframe.

Select Hyperfind— Select to filter the notifications by location or hyperfind.

Reset— Return to the default filter.

Attendance

Approve— Approve a time off request.

Mark Read—Mark a notification as read.

Delete— Delete a notification.

Employee requests

Approve— Approve an employee request.

Refuse— Refuse an employee request.

Add Comments— Add comments or notes to the request.

Pending— Mark an employee request pending.

Edit— Edit an employee request. Add, delete or edit the

Cancel— Cancel an employee request.

Delete— Delete an employee request.

HCM Notifications

Mark Read—Mark a notification as read.

Delete— Delete a notification.

HCM Todos

Mark Read—Mark a notification as read.

Delete— Delete a notification.

Leave of Absence

Mark Read—Mark a notification as read.

Delete— Delete a notification.

Leave of Absence Requests

Approve— Approve a leave request.

Refuse— Refuse a leave of absence request.

Pending— Mark a request pending.

Cancel— Cancel a leave request.

My requests icons

Mark Read—Mark a notification as read.

Delete— Delete a notification.

Open Shift Requests

Mark Read—Mark a notification as read.

Approve— Approve a request.

Refuse— Refuse a request.

Self Schedule

Mark Read—Mark a notification as read.

Shift Swap

Mark Read—Mark a notification as read.

System messages icons

Mark Read—Mark a notification as read.

Delete— Delete a notification.

Timekeeping

Mark Read—Mark a notification as read.

Delete— Delete a notification.

Timekeeping Requests

Approve— Approve a timekeeping request.

Refuse— Refuse a timekeeping request.

Add Comments— Add comments or notes to the request.