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Dashboard

Dashboard

Your personal overview of time tracking and upcoming time off.

Overview

The Dashboard is the first page you see after signing in. It gives you a quick summary of your work day and time-off status.

Navigate to Dashboard in the sidebar.

Time tracking widget

The time tracking widget shows your current status for today:

  • Clock in / Clock out — start and stop your work timer
  • Worked today — total time registered so far
  • Expected — time expected from your work time norm
  • Delta — difference between worked and expected time

Missing check-out

If you forget to check out, mTime notices: a session that has been open for more than 16 hours counts as a forgotten check-out.

The next time you open the dashboard, a prompt asks when you stopped working, pre-filled with a suggestion based on your working hours for that day:

  • Save check-out — record the time you enter. The check-out lands on the day you checked in (or the day after, for a session that crossed midnight).
  • Disregard — remove the check-in entirely. Use this when the check-in itself was a mistake.
  • Closing the prompt keeps a warning banner on the time tracking widget, so you can resolve it later.

Checking in again — from the dashboard or the header button — first asks you to resolve the forgotten session, then starts your day as usual.

You cannot check out of a session that has been open for more than 16 hours; enter the actual check-out time in the prompt instead, or correct the day in the timesheet. Night shifts are unaffected: a session that crosses midnight but stays under 16 hours checks out normally.

Quick-action shortcuts

If your time-off policies are configured with dashboard shortcuts, you see quick-action buttons below the time tracking area. For example:

  • I'm sick — start a sick leave absence immediately (open-ended)
  • I'm back — end an ongoing absence

These shortcuts are configured by administrators on each time-off policy.

Time-off widget

The time-off widget shows:

  • Upcoming time off — your planned absences in the near future, with dates and duration
  • Account balances — available balance for each of your time-off accounts (vacation, sick leave, etc.)

Actions

From the time-off widget, you can:

  • Request time off — click Request time off to open the request form
  • Edit a future request — click the edit icon on an upcoming period
  • Cancel a future request — click the cancel icon to remove a planned absence
  • Interrupt an active absence — if you are currently on leave, click I'm back to end it early
  • See when you can use it — click an account to open your time-off year, which shows what you can book month by month

Overlapping requests

If a new request overlaps time off of the same kind on the same account — same balance, same note — the two merge into one absence, and a day covered by both is charged once rather than twice.

If the days you pick are already charged the same amount by existing time off, the request is refused as a duplicate rather than merged — both when you book new time off and when you move an existing period onto another period’s days. Editing a period in place is never treated as a duplicate of itself. Open-ended absences, the kind a dashboard shortcut starts, are outside this: they are neither merged nor refused as duplicates.

To change time off you already have, open the period and move it, shorten it, remove individual days inside it, or cancel it, rather than submitting a second request over the same days.

Balance details

The balance detail panel below is opened from an employee’s profile. Employees reach their own figures from the time-off year instead.

When you click on an account balance, a detail panel opens with a summary and a combined history and forecast.

Summary

  • Available now — the balance you can use today
  • Available overdraft — extra time you can take now, covered by what you earn this period once it is approved (shown when your account allows overdraft)
  • Planned usage — time off you have already booked

For accounts that settle at the end of a period (such as flex), the summary also shows a Projected at period close group with the pending accrual you will gain and any pending expiration over the cap. This explains a balance that can look low today: the current period has not been approved yet, so this period’s earnings are not part of Available now until the period closes.

History & forecast

  • History — past accruals, usage, adjustments, and expirations that have already occurred. It shows the current period by default; use Show earlier history to reveal older movements.
  • Today — a clear divider separating past from future
  • Forecast — projected future accruals, expirations, and planned usage. For period-settled accounts, a single period close line (for example “July close”) shows the net effect and the resulting balance at the end of the period.

This split helps you see what has already been recorded versus what is expected to happen.

Manual adjustments

Administrators can add manual adjustments to an employee’s time-off balance — for example, to grant bonus days or correct an error.

When creating a manual adjustment, you can optionally set an expiration date. If left blank, the system derives a default expiration from the employee’s active time-off policy for that account. This ensures that manually granted days follow the same expiration rules as accrued days.

Related

Time off — your year