Blog

Settings holds two quite different things: the long personal-details questionnaire your employer needs for payroll and HR, and the controls for which notifications reach you and how. They behave nothing like each other, one has a one-way confirmation step, the other saves every switch the moment you touch it.

7.1Overview

Two tabs:

The page opens on User. If notifications are switched off for your company that tab is not there, the tab strip disappears entirely, and you see the questionnaire alone.

Settings is not in the sidebar, open it from the account menu in the top bar (2.2.2).

7.2The User tab, Personal Details

7.2.1The sections

The questionnaire is a stack of cards, each a group of related fields. Which ones you see is decided by your employer; the full set is:

A section your employer has not shared with employees is not rendered at all, not greyed out, simply absent. Nothing is missing if a heading in this list is not on your screen.

7.2.2Most sections start closed, and all of them start locked

Two things stand between you and typing, and it is worth knowing both before you go hunting for a bug.

1. 1

   Open the section. Every section except General Information and Personal Data arrives collapsed. Click the chevron at its left to expand it. Those first two are always open and have no chevron.

2. 2

   Unlock the section. Click the pencil at its top right. Until you do, the fields are visible but completely inert, clicks do not land at all.

Once unlocked, a pulsing dot and the line “Editing mode – use Save Changes button at bottom to save” appear under the section title, and the pencil disappears. Clicking the pencil also expands the section if it was closed.

7.2.3The status badge

A badge sits at the top right of the page, beside Change password. It has two states:

7.3Confirmation, the one-way step

This questionnaire has a point of no return in it. Read this section before you fill anything in.

7.3.1What confirming does

The first time you save, TAMEDA does not simply save. It opens Confirm Data Submission:

“This data will be sent and visible to your employer. Please check and make sure everything is correct. After saving, you cannot change this data anymore. Only an Admin can make changes.”, with the middle sentence highlighted in amber.

Take the first option unless you are certain. Reading through everything once more costs a minute; getting it wrong means asking an admin to reopen the form for you.

7.3.2Saving after confirmation

Once you have confirmed, the pencils are gone and the form is read-only until an admin reopens it. When they do, saving no longer confirms anything, it just asks Confirm Save, “Are you sure you want to save these changes?”, and saves. The one-way warning does not come back.

7.4Filling in and saving

7.4.1The action bar

As soon as anything differs from what is stored, a bar appears fixed across the bottom of the screen:

Clicking it opens whichever dialog applies (8.3). Any documents you added are uploaded as part of the same save, so the button stays busy until they are all through, do not navigate away while it is working.

7.4.2The unsaved-changes guard

The page will not let you wander off mid-edit. Unsaved Changes, “You have unsaved changes. Do you really want to continue?”, appears when you click Cancel, when you click a link elsewhere in TAMEDA, and when you press your browser’s Back button. Discard Changes throws the edits away; Cancel keeps you where you are.

Reloading or closing the tab triggers your browser’s own “leave site?” prompt instead, which looks different because it comes from the browser rather than from TAMEDA.

7.4.3If the form will not load

A red banner headed Error Loading Profile means the data could not be fetched. Reload the page; if it persists, tell your manager rather than filling the form in again from memory.

7.5Documents on this page

The Documents section here is not the same control as the one on your Profile page (7.6), and the differences matter.

7.6Changing your password

Change password sits at the top right of the User tab, beside the status badge. It is the same dialog as on the Profile page, including the rule that changing your password signs you out. See 6.7 before you use it.

7.7The Notification tab

Headed Notification, “Control how and when you receive notifications.”

7.7.1General, the master switch

Refuse the browser prompt and you get “Notification permission was denied.”; push stays off and TAMEDA cannot ask again, you have to allow notifications for the site in your browser’s own settings. On a browser that does not support them at all it says “Push notifications are not supported in this browser or context.”

Push is per device and per browser. Enabling it on your laptop does not enable it on your phone.

7.7.2Alert Style

How a notification behaves when it arrives:

7.7.3Choosing a delivery method per notification

Below a heading reading Notification views, “Personal notification categories for your account.”, the settings are grouped by subject, each row one kind of event with its own dropdown:

Where push is unavailable on the device, the row says “Browser push is disabled on this device.” and the push options do nothing until you fix that in 8.7.1.

7.7.4What you can be notified about

The groups, in the order they appear:

The Coming Soon rows are shown so you know they are planned. Their switches do nothing yet.

7.7.5The delay dropdowns

Two groups have a second dropdown beside the delivery one:

The wording is the thing to watch: one is after the event, the other before it.

7.8If something in this guide is missing from your screen

None of these are faults. If you expected something and cannot find it, ask your manager whether it is enabled for your team.

Your Profile page holds who you are as far as TAMEDA is concerned: your contact details, the parts of your employment record you are allowed to see, your insurance and tax numbers, your documents, your avatar and your password.

6.1Overview

A header card, then three panels:

A blue note sits at the top: Note, “Click the Edit Profile button to make changes to your personal information.” Close it with the ×; it comes back next time you open the page.

6.1.1How to get here

Profile is not in the sidebar. Open it from the account menu in the top bar, click your avatar, then Profile. See 1.2.2.

6.2What you can and cannot change

Fields you cannot change are shown greyed out rather than hidden, so you can still read them and check they are right. If one is wrong, tell your manager, there is nothing you can do about it here.

6.3The profile header

6.3.1Your identity line

Underneath your name sits a single row of details, separated by dividers:

A small green dot on the avatar means your account is active. While you are editing, an amber (Editing) label appears beside your name.

6.3.2The employment tiles

A band across the bottom of the header shows:

If they have not, you see the single Employee ID tile, centred, and nothing is missing or broken. A shared field with nothing in it reads N/A.

6.3.3Your terminal PIN

If your company clocks in at a shared terminal, you have a four-digit PIN. It sits in the identity row behind a key icon, masked as ••••.

1. 1

   The eye shows or hides the PIN. It stays revealed only until you hide it or leave the page.

2. 2

   The pencil opens a small field. Type four digits and click the tick to save, or the × to abandon it.

It must be exactly four digits, anything else gives “PIN must be exactly 4 digits”, and a failure to save gives “Failed to save PIN”. The change takes effect at the terminal immediately, so do not change it mid-shift unless you mean to.

6.3.4How to change your avatar

1. 1

   Click Edit Profile to enter edit mode. A pencil appears over your avatar.

2. 2

   Click the avatar. A dialog opens with two tabs.

3. 3

   Choose Avatar offers a grid of ready-made pictures. Upload takes your own image, JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 5 MB.

4. 4

   Click Save. It stays disabled until you actually pick something.

Remove at the bottom left clears your picture and puts your initials back; it only appears when you have one set. Cancel closes without changing anything.

6.4Personal Information

6.4.1The fields

6.4.2How to edit and save

1. 1

   Click Edit Profile in the header. Your name gains an amber (Editing) label and the editable fields come alive. The Edit Profile and Change password buttons disappear while you are editing.

2. 2

   Change what you need. A bar appears fixed to the bottom of the screen reading Editing profile, with Cancel and Save Changes.

3. 3

   Click Save Changes. The page is covered while it saves, then a green Success, Profile updated successfully box appears at the top and edit mode closes.

A blue Last updated box then keeps the time of the change on screen until you close it with its ×.

6.4.3Cancelling

Cancel with nothing changed simply leaves edit mode. With unsaved changes it asks first, Unsaved Changes, “You have unsaved changes. Do you really want to continue?”, and Discard Changes restores your original values exactly.

Only the personal-information fields count as changes. The avatar, your documents and your PIN save on their own, so they are never waiting in this bar.

6.5Insurance & Tax

A read-only panel with four fields: Health Insurance, Insurance Number, Tax ID and Tax Class. None of them can be edited here, in edit mode or out of it, they are payroll data your employer maintains.

6.5.1The masked numbers

Insurance Number and Tax ID are treated as sensitive. They show as •••••••• with an eye on the right:

1. 1

   Click the eye. It becomes a spinner for a moment, the real value is fetched from the server, not held in the page, then the number appears, in a monospaced font.

2. 2

   Click it again to hide it. It also hides itself again when you leave the page.

Where nothing is stored, the field is simply empty, no mask, no eye. If the reveal fails, the error is shown on the field itself.

6.6Documents

The Documents panel holds files attached to your record. Underneath the heading it says Visible to employer • N files, anything here can be seen by your employer, so treat it as shared, not private.

6.6.1How to upload

1. 1

   Click Upload and choose the file. There is no drag-and-drop here.

2. 2

   It uploads straight away, there is no separate save, and no edit mode needed, and the button reads Uploading… while it goes.

Accepted: PDF, JPG, PNG, DOC, DOCX, XLS and XLSX, up to 10 MB each. A file that is too big gives “File size exceeds 10MB limit.”, and an unsupported one gives an invalid-type message.

6.6.2The list

Each row shows the document’s title (or its filename), with the upload date and size underneath, and two buttons:

A long list scrolls inside the panel rather than stretching the page. At the bottom, a summary line counts the documents and totals their size. An empty panel reads No documents uploaded. with “Click ‘Upload’ to add files”.

6.7Changing your password

1. 1

   Click Change password in the header. The dialog explains itself: “Enter your current password, then choose a new one.”

2. 2

   Fill in Current password, New password and Confirm new password. Each field has an eye to show what you have typed.

3. 3

   Click Update password.

6.7.1What the new password must be

At least 8 characters, with at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter and one number. It must also be different from your current password. The dialog checks as you type and tells you where you stand, Password is valid, Passwords match, Passwords do not match, and Update password stays out of reach until all three fields are filled.

6.7.2If the current password is wrong

You get “Current password is incorrect”, and the attempts are counted. After too many, TAMEDA stops accepting them altogether:

“Current password is incorrect. You have reached the maximum number of allowed attempts. For your security, you will be signed out. Please use the forgot password link to reset your password.”

You are then signed out and sent to the password-reset page. If you are not sure of your current password, use Forgot password from the sign-in screen rather than guessing here.

6.8If something in this guide is missing from your screen

None of these are faults. If something on this page is wrong rather than missing, your manager or an admin has to correct it, you cannot.

The Time Off page is where you ask for leave and follow what happened to the request. It shows how many days you have left, what is still waiting on your manager, and the full history of everything you have submitted.

5.1Overview

Two blocks:

5.2The summary cards

5.2.1What Days Remaining actually counts

It is your entitlement for the current year minus the days already approved in that year, and sick leave is excluded from the subtraction. Two consequences worth knowing:

5.2.2The date range

The picker works as described in 2.4 and defaults to this month; a Clear button appears beside it whenever the range is something else. A request is shown if any part of it falls inside the range, so a holiday spanning two months appears in both.

5.3The Time-Off History table

5.3.1The columns

5.3.2The shift-conflict warning

An orange triangle beside a date means the request overlaps shifts you are already on. Hovering it says how many, for example 2 shifts conflicted. Only Scheduled and Confirmed shifts count; cancelled ones are ignored. It is a flag for you and your manager, not a block.

5.3.3The row actions

A rejected or already-cancelled request has the eye only, there is nothing left to do to it.

5.4Request statuses

5.5Requesting time off

5.5.1How to submit a request

1. 1

   Click Request Time-Off at the top right. The Leave Request dialog opens with your name and personnel number filled in at the top; neither can be changed.

2. 2

   In the calendar on the left, click every day you want off. It is a multi-select and the days need not be next to each other, each click adds one, clicking again removes it.

3. 3

   Choose the Leave Type. The rules for that type appear underneath as soon as you pick it.

4. 4

   Set Return to Work if your company asks for it, add a Reason, and attach any documents (6.5.2).

5. 5

   Check Leave Days Count, it is calculated for you and cannot be typed into, then click Submit Request.

5.5.2Attaching documents

Drag files onto the upload area or click it to browse. PDF, DOC, DOCX, JPG and PNG are accepted, up to 10 MB each, and you can attach several, the label counts them. Remove takes one off again.

Where the type requires documents, submitting without one gives “Supporting documents are required for this leave type”.

5.6The detail panel

The eye opens a panel on the right, subtitled Time-Off Details and led by the request’s status badge. It holds:

Edit and Cancel Request sit at the bottom, on the same conditions as the row actions.

5.7Changing or cancelling a request

5.7.1How to edit

Click the pencil, on the row or in the detail panel. Edit Leave Request opens with everything filled in, and works exactly like the request dialog.

5.7.2How to cancel

1. 1

   Click × on the row, or Cancel Request in the detail panel.

2. 2

   Request Cancellation? explains it: “Your manager will need to approve this request. Once approved, the days will be credited back to your balance.”

3. 3

   Click Request Cancellation.

The status becomes Cancel Requested. Your days come back only once your manager approves it, cancelling is a request like any other, not an undo button.

The Availability page is where you tell your employer when you can and cannot work, and, separately, when you would prefer to. Nothing here books a shift. It is information your manager uses when building the rota.

4.1Overview

The page is a title, a date-range control, and two tabs. Each tab is its own module, with its own table, its own dialogs and its own + button:

The page title and subtitle change with the tab: Availability, “Manage your availability schedule.”, or Preferred Working Time, “Manage your preferred working time slots.” The date picker at the top right stays where it is and applies to both.

4.2The date range

The picker at the top right works as described in 2.4, with one addition: it also offers a This Year preset, which is useful here because availability is often planned months ahead.

The page opens on this month. A Clear button appears beside the picker as soon as the range is anything else, and takes you straight back to this month.

Both tables show only entries whose date falls inside the range. As everywhere else in TAMEDA, an entry you cannot find is usually outside the range rather than gone.

4.3The Availability tab

4.3.1Availability table

A checkbox column sits at the far left for selecting rows to delete.

4.3.2The statuses

You can set two statuses. Two more exist that only your manager can set:

Editing a Sick or Holiday entry with the pencil is possible while it is in the future, but the status dropdown only offers Available and Not Available, saving therefore converts it into an ordinary entry. If your manager recorded it, leave it alone.

4.3.3How to add availability

1. 1

   Click + Availability. The dialog Add Availability opens, “Select dates and set your availability.” (The button is briefly disabled while the page loads its data.)

2. 2

   In the calendar, click every day this should apply to. It is a multi-select and the days need not be consecutive; the count underneath reads, for example, 4 date(s) selected. Clicking a selected day again removes it. Past days, and days that already have an entry, are greyed out.

3. 3

   Type From and To as HH:MM, or tick All Day, which empties and disables both fields.

4. 4

   Choose the Status: Available or Not Available.

5. 5

   Add a Note if it helps your manager, then click Save.

One entry is created per selected date, all with the same times, status and note. The confirmation says how many: “4 availability entries saved successfully.”, or “Availability saved successfully.” for a single day.

4.3.4How to change an entry

1. 1

   Click the pencil on the row. Edit Availability opens, “Update your availability entry.”, with the values filled in.

2. 2

   The calendar is now single-select: one entry, one date. You may move it to another free day; its own date stays selectable, and days that already have another entry stay greyed out.

3. 3

   Change what you need and click Save. The confirmation reads “Availability updated successfully.”

The pencil does nothing on a past row.

4.3.5How to delete entries

1. 1

   Tick the rows you want gone. The checkbox in the header selects every unlocked row on the current page; clicking it again clears them.

2. 2

   Click Delete (N). It stays greyed out at (0).

3. 3

   Confirm, Delete Availability, “Are you sure you want to delete these N availability entries? This action cannot be undone.”

Selections survive paging, so you can tick rows on page 1, go to page 2, tick more, and delete them together, the count on the button is the true total.

The entries are deleted one at a time. If some fail, the message says how many went through and why the others did not, for example “2 deleted. Some failed: …”.

4.4The Preferred Working Time tab

Preferred working time says when you would like to work, not whether you can. It is a wish your manager can see while planning; it does not block, reserve or promise anything. If you genuinely cannot work, that belongs on the Availability tab.

4.4.1The table

There is no Status column, because a preferred slot has nothing to be, and no All Day column, a preferred slot is always a time range.

An empty table reads No preferred working time entries, “Click ‘+ Preferred Time’ to add your first entry.”

The default row order is the same as the other tab: upcoming first ascending, then the past in reverse.

4.4.2How to add preferred time

1. 1

   Click + Preferred Time to open Add Preferred Working Time, “Select a date and set your preferred working time.”

2. 2

   Select one or several dates in the calendar, exactly as on the other tab.

3. 3

   Type From and To, add a note if you want, and click Save.

As on the other tab, one entry is created per selected date.

4.4.3Editing and deleting

Both work exactly as on the Availability tab. The pencil opens Edit Preferred Working Time with a single-select calendar; the entry’s own date stays selectable so you can leave it where it is. Deleting uses the same tick-then-Delete (N) flow, with its own dialog headed Delete Preferred Working Time and the same “This action cannot be undone.” warning. Past rows cannot be selected or edited.

The Time Tracking page is the record of the hours you have actually worked. Every clock-in, clock-out and break lands here as a row you can read, correct and, where your company allows it, add by hand for a day you forgot to clock.

3.1Overview

Three blocks stacked on top of each other:

3.2Header, date range and clock controls

The top of the page is the header you already know. It behaves exactly as described in chapter 2, so this section only notes what is different here.

3.2.1The stat cards

The same four cards as on the Dashboard, Total Hours, Upcoming Shifts, Clock Ins and Current Status, calculated for the selected date range. Full detail is in 2.3.2 and 2.3.3.

On this page they are shown only if both shifts and clocking are switched on for your company.

3.2.2The date range decides what the table contains

As on the Shifts page, the table only ever shows entries inside the selected date range, and you start on this month. The Time Account cards are calculated for the same range, and so is the corrections list.

Use the date pill, its ‹ / › arrows and Clear exactly as described in 2.4. Changing the range always returns you to page 1.

3.2.3The clock controls

Clock In, and the session ribbon with Pause, Resume and Clock Out, work exactly as on the Dashboard, see 2.5. When you clock out here, the table refreshes itself; you do not need to reload the page.

3.3The Working Times table

The card is headed Working Times, subtitled “View and manage your clock-in and clock-out entries.” The Manual Entry and Delete Selected buttons sit at its top right.

3.3.1The columns

A checkbox column sits at the far left, and the row actions at the far right (4.5, 4.6).

3.3.2Days with more than one entry

If you clocked in and out several times on the same day, the day is shown as a single cumulative row rather than as several separate rows. It carries the date, the number of entries underneath it (for example 3 entries), the day’s combined break and total hours, and the status Multi Entry.

1. 1

   Click the round › button at the start of the row to open the day.

2. 2

   The individual entries appear underneath, each indented with a small arrow and tinted purple.

3. 3

   Click the button again to close it.

If any of the day’s entries is waiting on approval, the row says so in yellow, for example 1 pending approval. The button is disabled on a day with nothing to show.

3.3.3The gap rows between entries

Between two entries on the same day you may see a slim highlighted line reading Break · 12:00 → 12:30. That is not an entry of yours, it is the unclocked gap between one clock-out and the next clock-in, shown so the day reads continuously, with its length in the Breaks column. It cannot be selected, edited or deleted.

3.3.4Corrections in the table

A manual adjustment made by your manager appears as its own row with the status Correction. Its Total Hours is signed and coloured, green with a + for hours added, red with a − for hours taken away. Corrections are read-only: no checkbox, no pencil.

One thing they do affect: a correction that adds hours over a real time window occupies the clock, so a manual entry of yours cannot overlap it. Negative corrections, and corrections entered as a bare number of hours, do not.

3.3.5The “+1” marker on a date

If an entry ran past midnight, a small blue +1 appears next to its date. The row still lists the day the entry started; the marker tells you the clock-out belongs to the following day. An entry shown as 02.09.2026, 22:00 to 06:00 +1 finished on the morning of the 3rd.

3.4Entry statuses

The badge in the Status column tells you what, if anything, you can still do with a row:

On a Pending row the figures themselves are drawn in yellow, so you can spot unapproved values at a glance without reading the badge.

3.5Correcting an entry

3.5.1How to put a row into edit mode

Rows are read-only until you say otherwise, so a stray click cannot change your times.

1. 1

   Click the pencil in the row’s actions. It turns green and that row’s fields become editable.

2. 2

   Change the date, clock-in, clock-out or breaks. Times are typed as HH:MM and tidied up when you leave the field.

3. 3

   Leave the field, click away, or press Enter, to submit the change.

The pencil is not offered at all on a cumulative day row, on a closed entry, on a day inside a closed period, or if manual entries are switched off for your company.

3.5.2How to add or change a break

The breaks editor is read-only until the row is in edit mode, you cannot type into it straight from the table.

1. 1

   Put the row into edit mode with the pencil (4.5.1), then click the Breaks cell.

2. 2

   Click Add break and type the start and end as HH:MM. The bin icon beside a break removes it.

3. 3

   Click Apply. The total in the cell updates and Total Hours is recalculated, then the Confirm Edit dialog opens as for any other change (4.5.3).

3.5.3The Confirm Edit dialog

Every change goes through a dialog rather than saving silently. Confirm Edit lists the fields you changed under Change Details:, old value on the left and new on the right, and offers an optional Edit Reason. The reason is optional, but it is what your manager reads when reviewing the change, so it is worth a line.

Save Changes commits it; Cancel puts the field back to its original value.

3.6Manual entries and approval

3.6.1How to add a day you forgot to clock

1. 1

   Click Manual Entry at the top right of the Working Times card.

2. 2

   Pick the day in the calendar that opens. Future days are not selectable and closed days are greyed out.

3. 3

   A purple draft row appears at the top of the table for that date, already editable.

4. 4

   Fill in Clock In, then Clock Out. The confirmation dialog opens once the clock-out is filled, nothing is sent before that.

5. 5

   Add the breaks afterwards. They need a saved entry to attach to.

You can change the draft’s date from its own Date cell before saving. If you try to save without a clock-in you get “Clock in time is required to save this manual entry.”

3.7Deleting entries

3.7.1How to delete

1. 1

   Tick the checkbox at the start of each entry you want gone. Ticking a cumulative day row selects all of that day’s deletable entries; the header checkbox selects everything selectable on the page.

2. 2

   Click Delete Selected (N) at the top right. It stays greyed out at (0).

3. 3

   The dialog is headed Delete N Clock Entries, “Are you sure you want to delete N clock entries? This action cannot be undone.” There is an optional Delete Reason field; fill it in if the deletion needs explaining.

4. 4

   Click Delete N Entries.

A day row shows a half-filled checkbox when only some of its entries are ticked, so you can always tell a partial selection from a whole day.