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:
1
User
the questionnaire. The page heading above it reads Personal
Details, “Review and confirm your personal information” (8.2 to 8.6).
2
Notification
“Control how and when you receive notifications.” (8.7).
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).
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The Settings page.employee/settings/7.1.png
Not the same page as Profile.
Profile (chapter 7) is your day-to-day contact details, saved with one button.
Settings → User is the full employment questionnaire, longer, more formal, edited section by
section, and once confirmed largely frozen. A few fields appear on both.
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:
1
General Information
company name, employee number, username, email, phone.
2
Personal Data
name and maiden name, address, date and place of birth, nationality, gender,
insurance number, disability status, and your bank details (IBAN / BIC).
3
Second Place of Employment
other jobs you hold.
4
Education & Professional Training
5
Training & Construction Experience
6
Contract Parameters
weekly working time and its distribution across the week, holiday entitlement,
contract limitation, cost centre.
7
Taxes
tax ID, tax class, child allowances, religious denomination.
8
Social Insurance
health insurance provider and the KV / RV / AV / PV details.
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.
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The questionnaire sections.employee/settings/7.2.1.png
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
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
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.
Each section is unlocked separately.
Unlocking one does not unlock the others, and they stay unlocked while you move
between them, but there is still only oneSave Changes button, at the
bottom, and it saves everything at once.
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Expanded, but still locked, note the pencil.employee/settings/7.2.2.png
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Unlocked, with the editing-mode indicator.employee/settings/7.2.3.png
7.2.3The status badge
A badge sits at the top right of the page, beside Change password. It has two states:
Badge
Colour
What it means
Confirmed – Admin Allowed Editing
Blue
An admin has explicitly reopened the form for you.
Confirmed – Editing not allowed
Red
An admin has not. This is the default state.
Trust the pencils, not the badge.
The badge only reports whether an admin has switched editing back on, it
does not know whether you have confirmed yet. Before your first confirmation it can therefore read
“Confirmed – Editing not allowed” while the form is in fact fully editable.
What actually decides it is simple: you can edit if you have not confirmed yet, or if an admin
has allowed editing. If the sections have pencils, you can edit; if they do not, you cannot.
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The status badge.employee/settings/7.2.4.png
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.
1
Check details again
go back to the form. Nothing is sent.
2
Confirm & Save
submit, and lock the form.
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.
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The confirmation is one-way.employee/settings/7.3.1.png
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.
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Saving an already-confirmed form.employee/settings/7.3.2.png
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:
1
On the left, Editing Employee Settings and an amber
Unsaved Changes badge, which becomes a blue Saving… badge
while it works.
2
On the right, Cancel and Save Changes.
Save Changes is greyed out until there is actually something to save.
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.
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The action bar appears as soon as something changes.employee/settings/7.4.1.png
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.
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The unsaved-changes guard.employee/settings/7.4.2.png
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.
1
Drag files onto the dashed area, or click it
to browse. You can add several at once.
2
Accepted: JPG, PNG and PDF only, up to 10 MB
each. The area itself says so: “JPG, PNG, PDF (max 10MB)”.
3
Files you add are not uploaded straight away. They wait, marked
with an orange border, until you click Save Changes, “Documents with
an orange border are unsaved and will be uploaded when you save changes.”
4
The bin icon only appears on a document that is still waiting, its tooltip reads “Remove document (only before saving)”. Once a
document is saved you cannot remove it from this page.
To delete a document you have already saved, use the Profile page instead
(7.6.2), where every document has a delete button.
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The upload area on the Settings page.employee/settings/7.5.1.png
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An unsaved document, waiting for Save Changes.employee/settings/7.5.2.png
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.”
There is no Save button here, and none is needed.
Every switch and dropdown takes effect the moment you change it. If a change
cannot be saved, you are offline, or the server refuses, the control quietly springs back
to what it was. While one change is in flight the rest are briefly disabled, so give it a moment between
clicks.
7.7.1General, the
master switch
1
Enable Notifications
the master switch. Turn it off and everything below stops; every card dims and its
controls stop responding.
2
Push Notifications
“Receive push notifications across desktop and mobile
devices.” Turning it on asks your browser for permission.
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.
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The master switch and push.employee/settings/7.7.1.png
7.7.2Alert Style
How a notification behaves when it arrives:
1
Pop-up Alerts
show a toast when a new notification arrives.
2
Notification Sound
play a sound with it.
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:
1
In-app + Push
the bell inside TAMEDA and a device notification.
2
In-app
the bell only.
3
Push
the device only.
4
Off
nothing for this event.
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.
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Each event has its own delivery setting.employee/settings/7.7.2.png
7.7.4What you can be
notified about
The groups, in the order they appear:
1
Communication
announcements and chat. Marked Coming Soon and switched off.
2
My Shifts
under “Shift updates”, one row each for a shift assigned to
you being Published, Changed or Cancelled.
3
My Missing Clock Actions
when you have not clocked in after your shift started, or not clocked out
after it ended. Each has a delay as well as a delivery method (8.7.5).
4
My Clock Reminders
a nudge before your shift starts or ends, so you do not forget in the
first place. Where your company uses a clock terminal, a Terminal mode group sits at
the bottom of this same card, covering whether your terminal time-edit requests and manual entries
were approved or rejected.
5
My Time Off
when one of your requests is approved or rejected, and when one is updated or
cancelled.
6
Documents & Profile
Coming Soon.
7
Security
New login and Failed login attempts on your
account.
8
Email Notifications
Coming Soon, permanently off.
The Coming Soon rows are shown so you know they are planned. Their switches do nothing
yet.
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Shift notifications, one row per kind of change.employee/settings/7.7.3.png
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A Coming Soon row.employee/settings/7.7.5.png
7.7.5The delay
dropdowns
Two groups have a second dropdown beside the delivery one:
1
Missing clock
After 10 minutes, 15, 30 or
1 hour. How long TAMEDA waits before telling you that you have not clocked.
2
Clock reminders
Before 10 minutes, 15, 30 or
1 hour. How far ahead of the shift the reminder comes.
The wording is the thing to watch: one is after the event, the other before it.
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Delay on the left, delivery on the right.employee/settings/7.7.4.png
The security rows are worth leaving on.
A New login notification is how you find out about someone
signing in as you.
7.8If something in this guide is
missing from your screen
1
No tabs at all
notifications are off for your company; the questionnaire fills the page.
2
Fewer questionnaire sections than listed
your employer only shares some of them (8.2.1).
3
A section you cannot type into
you have not clicked its pencil yet (8.2.2). This is the most common cause by far.
4
No pencils anywhere
you have confirmed the form and an admin has not reopened it (8.3.2).
5
The badge says “Confirmed” but you never confirmed
the badge only tracks the admin’s editing permission (8.2.3). Go by whether
the pencils are there.
6
No bin on a document
it is already saved. Delete it from the Profile page instead (8.5).
7
No Terminal mode notification group
your company does not use a shared clock terminal.
8
Rows marked Coming Soon and disabled
not built yet. They will start working in a later release.
9
A notification switch that flips back on its own
the change could not be saved. Check your connection and try again.
10
Everything under General greyed out
the master Enable Notifications switch is off.
None of these are faults. If you expected something and cannot find it, ask your manager whether it is
enabled for your team.
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