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Proportion field on Limit Definition Details

  • December 19, 2024
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Hero (Employee)
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There isn’t any field level help for the Proportion field on the Limit Definition Details screen.  It’s in the Limit Settings  grouping.  We have it set to Yes, Must be earned before used.  We’re assuming that within a period, which we’ve defined as 2 weeks that if we’re 1 week into a period that 50% of the period’s allocation will be earned.  Then we have the phrase  “must be earned before used”, we think this implies that the absence isn’t earned until the employee works that period.  In other words, if the employee leaves at the beginning of the 3rd period in December, they will only accrue 2 weeks of the monthly amount and not the full month’s amount.

Are we understanding how this works correctly?  

Thank you

Patrick

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    Do Gooder (Partner)
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    • Do Gooder (Partner)
    • November 24, 2025

    Hi Patrick,

    I explain the proportion settings with relation to time off requests as they will have an effect on the request not necessarily on the accrual of the limit.  The easiest one to understand is “No, Do not consider proportion” as this turns off any checks on the absence limit prior to the absence request. 

    The other two, “Yes, must be earned before used” and “Yes, usage allowed before earned” determine what type of message is displayed when the request is made and the employee hasn’t accrued enough hours for that request.  “Yes, must be earned before used” is a hard stop on the absence request if the employee has not been allocated enough hours at the time of either registering or request an absence.  It will have a red toast message saying that the limit has exceeded.  “Yes, usage allowed before earned” will have a pop-up warning message that can be accepted and will allow the user to either request or register an absence even if they haven’t accrued the absence amount at that point in time.

     

    This is a screenshot from a training pdf on the subject:

    I hope this helps,

    Lauren

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