ANTE User Manual

Manpower Dashboard

The Manpower Dashboard is the HR administrator's home screen. It gives you four headline counters, a set of customizable widgets for managing filing requests, attendance, payroll, and announcements, and quick links into the main HR areas.

The Manpower Dashboard β€” counters across the top, widgets below, all arranged to suit how you work

Overview

This is the default landing page for the Manpower module. The dashboard is customizable β€” you can show, hide, resize, and rearrange most widgets, and your layout is saved to your account.

How to Open the Dashboard

  1. Click Manpower in the sidebar.
  2. The module opens directly on the Dashboard (/manpower/dashboard).

You need Manpower access to view this page.

Counter Cards

Four counter cards run across the top of the dashboard. Each one is clickable and opens a detail dialog.

  • Pending Approvals (yours / company) β€” shows a "current of total" value (the number of filings waiting on you, of the total pending across the company). Click to open the Pending Approvals dialog, which lists individual pending filings under the same visibility rule as the Manage Request widget below.
  • Days Before Cut-off β€” the number of days remaining before the next payroll cut-off (shows N/A when there is no upcoming cut-off). Click to open the Cut-off Dates dialog.
  • Pending Processing β€” the count of cut-offs awaiting timekeeping or payroll processing. Click to open the Pending Processing dialog, where cut-offs are grouped into Past Due, On Process, and Current. Each row shows the period, the employee count, and a Process action.
  • Leaves This Month β€” the number of approved leaves for the current month. Click to open the Approved Leaves dialog, which lists approved LEAVE filings for the selected month with Month and Branch (All Branches) filters and columns for Employee, Leave Type, Date, Submitted, and Status. Which leave filings appear follows the same visibility rule as the Manage Request widget below.

Widgets

The dashboard arranges widgets in a main column and a sidebar.

Manage Request

Lists HR filing requests so you can review and act on them.

Which filings you see here depends on your own role β€” separately from which ones you are allowed to approve (see below). With full system access, every company filing appears. Otherwise you see every filing of a type your role has its own Filing screen for β€” for example, Leave Filing access shows every employee's Leave requests here, company-wide β€” or, if your role has Timekeeping access, every filing type company-wide; plus, regardless of type, every filing belonging to you or to someone who reports directly to you.

  • Tabs: Pending, Approved, Rejected (each tab shows a count badge).
  • A search button (search by employee name) and a filter button (filter by type: All types, OT, Leave, Sched, OB, COA, RDW).
  • Each request shows the employee, the filing type, a status badge, and how long ago it was submitted. The list loads more as you scroll.
  • Click a request to open the Filing Request dialog. For every filing type except Leave, it opens with two tabs β€” Details (the request itself) and Time Logs (everything actually recorded for that employee on the filing's date, so you can check it before deciding). A Leave request spans a date range rather than a single day, so it opens without tabs, showing the Details content directly. From either tab you can Approve or Reject the request (rejecting prompts you for a reason). You can only approve filings you are authorized to approve β€” Super Admins can approve any filing, a direct supervisor can approve their reports' filings, and you cannot approve your own.
  • Opening an Approved Overtime, Certificate of Attendance, or Official Business request may show a Cancel Approval button instead β€” see Cancelling an approved Overtime filing under Common Tasks below (the same action now also covers Certificate of Attendance and Official Business).

The filing types are: OT (Overtime), Leave, Sched (Schedule Adjustment), OB (Official Business), COA (Certificate of Attendance), and RDW (Rest Day Work).

The Time Logs Tab

Shows what was actually recorded for the employee on the filing's date, so you can sanity-check the request against the real attendance data before you decide.

The Time Logs tab β€” day summary chips at the top, then every punch recorded that day
  • Day summary chips β€” a Worked chip always shows the day's worked minutes; Break, Late, Undertime, Overtime (approved), OT for approval, and Night diff chips each appear only when that value is greater than zero, plus a Rest day badge when the day is a rest day.
  • Every time-in / time-out punch recorded that day, from any source β€” the time tracker, facial recognition, a punch-in device, a manual entry, or an imported timesheet β€” each with its duration and a source badge. A punch that hasn't been timed out yet shows an Open badge instead of a duration, and a punch tied to a task shows the task and project underneath it. A Total logged figure sums every punch's duration.
  • Click a punch to expand its detail, when available β€” face capture photos (time-in and time-out), location, GPS coordinates, IP address, device, and any remarks. This lets you verify a filing against what was actually clocked.
  • Task Sessions β€” the employee's time-tracker task sessions for the day, each with its start and end time (or Running if still open), duration, and task/project. A session shows a Task only badge when it isn't linked to an attendance punch.

If nothing was recorded for the day, the tab shows "No time was recorded on this day."

Attendance Conflicts

Lists attendance issues that need resolving β€” Missing Log, Missing Time Out, and No Attendance. Each conflict can be marked Resolved or Ignore. Supports searching by employee and loads more as you scroll.

Note: A forgotten clock-out at a facial recognition device no longer credits the employee's earlier day with automatic end-of-day hours. Whether the employee resolves it themselves at the device or the system auto-closes it (after the session has been open more than 20 hours), that day is marked absent instead. The employee must file a Certificate of Attendance for the system to recognize the hours actually worked.

Payroll Summary

A bar chart of monthly payroll totals with a year-over-year comparison, showing This Year Total and Last Year Total, plus the time it was last updated.

Daily Attendance (sidebar)

Today's attendance summary, broken down into Present, Late, Undertime, Absent, and On Leave, along with the total number of employees.

Announcements (sidebar)

Company announcements. You can Create announcement and delete existing ones (deleting asks for confirmation). The list loads more as you scroll.

Action Center

Quick links into common HR areas (hidden by default β€” add it from the widget menu if you want it). Each item navigates you to that area:

  • View Employees β†’ employee directory (HRIS)
  • Timekeeping β†’ attendance records
  • Payroll Center β†’ payroll computations
  • Filing Requests β†’ leave and OT requests
  • Reports β†’ HR reports
  • Scheduling β†’ employee schedules

Customizing Your Dashboard

The dashboard layout can be edited and is saved per user.

  1. Press F9 to enter edit mode.
  2. An edit bar appears at the bottom with these controls:
    • Add Widget β€” opens the Hidden Widgets panel; drag a hidden widget onto the dashboard to add it.
    • Reset β€” restores the default layout.
    • Cancel β€” discards your changes.
    • Done β€” saves your changes.
  3. While in edit mode, drag widgets to rearrange them.
  4. Press F9 again or click Done to save and exit.

Common Tasks

Reviewing and approving a filing request

  1. In the Manage Request widget, stay on the Pending tab.
  2. (Optional) Use the search and filter buttons to narrow the list.
  3. Click a request to open its details.
  4. (Optional) For every filing type except Leave, switch to the Time Logs tab to check what was actually recorded that day before deciding.
  5. Click Approve, or click Reject and enter a reason.
  6. If the filing's own pay period is already frozen (past Timekeeping), a "Carry Over This Pay?" dialog appears instead of approving right away β€” see Choosing whether to carry over the pay below. On an ordinary filing (its period still open) approval goes straight through with no extra dialog.

Choosing whether to carry over the pay

A filing β€” Overtime, Leave, Certificate of Attendance, Official Business, or Rest Day Work β€” that was filed while its cut-off was still open but isn't approved until after that cut-off's payroll processing has started can still be approved; the record just can't be added to the now-frozen period. Clicking Approve on such a filing opens a "Carry Over This Pay?" dialog showing the amount and the target payroll period, with two options:

  • Carry Over the Pay β€” approves the filing and posts its pay effect to the employee's next open cut-off as a Carry-over line (the existing behavior β€” see Carry-over (previous cutoff) on the Salary Detail page).
  • Do Not Carry Over β€” approves the filing for the record without paying it forward. Use this when the filing itself is incorrect, so it can be approved as-is and the attendance corrected on the timesheet instead of paying out a wrong amount.

Ordinary approvals β€” where the filing's own cut-off is still open β€” are unchanged and show no such dialog.

Cancelling an approved Overtime filing

An approved Overtime, Certificate of Attendance, or Official Business filing can be withdrawn after the fact β€” for example, if it was approved by mistake or the situation changed. Cancelling reverses the approval and marks the filing Cancelled.

  • For Overtime, cancelling automatically recomputes the employee's timesheet for that day. For Certificate of Attendance and Official Business, cancelling also removes the attendance record that the approval created β€” this is what frees up the time range so it can be filed again (see the note below).
  • Available for Overtime, Certificate of Attendance, or Official Business filings that are currently Approved, while the pay period's cut-off is still in the Timekeeping stage. It is now also available when the approval's pay was already carried over to a later cut-off (see Choosing whether to carry over the pay above) β€” cancelling withdraws the carried pay from that later payroll run automatically. It is still refused if that later cut-off has already been Posted (the money is already paid) β€” return that cut-off to Pending first.
  • Only the person who originally approved the filing, or someone at a role level strictly above that approver (or a Super Admin), can cancel it. The employee whose filing it is can never cancel their own approved request this way, even if they hold an approver-level role themselves.
  1. In the Manage Request widget, switch to the Approved tab (or open the filing from a notification).
  2. Click the request to open the Filing Request dialog.
  3. If you're eligible to cancel it, click Cancel Approval. If the button doesn't appear, the dialog now explains why β€” for example that payroll for this period is already being processed, or that the pay was already paid out on a posted payroll run β€” instead of the button simply being absent.
  4. Enter a reason and confirm.

The employee is notified that their approved filing was cancelled, including a note when carried-over pay was withdrawn as part of the cancellation. If someone other than the original approver did the cancelling, the original approver is notified as well.

Why you couldn't re-file over an approved COA/OB before: filing a new request over a time range that already has an approved filing is blocked to prevent duplicate/conflicting records. Previously, an approved Certificate of Attendance or Official Business had no way to be undone, so that time range stayed permanently blocked β€” the only advice was to choose a different time. Now the message you (or the employee) see when a new filing conflicts with an approved COA or OB tells you to open the existing approved filing and use Cancel Approval instead. Deleting the underlying raw attendance logs does not release the block β€” only cancelling the approval does.

Checking pending payroll processing

  1. Click the Pending Processing counter card.
  2. Review the cut-offs grouped under Past Due, On Process, and Current.
  3. Use the Process action on a row to move that cut-off forward.

Viewing approved leaves for the month

  1. Click the Leaves This Month counter card.
  2. Adjust the Month and Branch filters as needed.
  3. Review the list of approved leave filings.

Resolving an attendance conflict

  1. In the Attendance Conflicts widget, find the conflict.
  2. Click Resolved to clear it, or Ignore to dismiss it.