While somebody is on a long-term absence their reports report to the next
management level, and it keeps rolling up until it reaches somebody present.
Derived at read time in lib/acting-manager.ts rather than written to
employees.manager_id: the absent person stays formally in charge, so the
stand-in has to be visible as a stand-in rather than quietly replacing them.
Both ids therefore travel to the UI, and both sides carry a badge — the
absent person ("Abwesend · Vertretung: X") and anyone now reporting
elsewhere ("Vertretung für Y").
Three cases the walk has to survive, all covered by tests:
- Several absent levels in a row — it keeps climbing, and still names the
*recorded* manager as the one being covered for, not the level skipped.
- Everyone above absent — it stops and keeps the recorded manager. Re-rooting
a team to the top of the chart would distort more than showing an absent
manager whose absence is labelled anyway.
- A manager_id cycle, which nothing in the schema forbids.
An absent lead needs no separate deputy field: their stand-in is simply
their own acting manager, the same one their reports moved to.
Karenz was doing duty as the name for every kind of extended absence, but
the cases behave differently in payroll and reporting — Wochenhilfe, a
Präsenzdienst, a long sick leave and a sabbatical are not the same thing.
The concept is now called Langzeitabwesenheit and carries which kind it is.
- employees.absence_type, constrained to the thirteen kinds. start_karenz
stores it on both paths (written straight away, or parked in the
pending_org_changes payload when the absence starts later);
record_karenz_return and the karenz_return branch of
apply_due_pending_changes clear it, so a returned employee does not keep
looking like they are still away. It also reaches employee_history, the
audit log and the employee export.
- The status enum value stays 'Karenz'. Postgres can rename an enum value in
place, but every stored function body that spells it would then reference
a value that no longer exists — a dozen functions across fifteen
migrations, rewritten for a label. The mapping lives in lib/absence.ts
instead, which is the single place the UI reads the display name from.
- Where a kind is recorded the chip shows it — "Bildungskarenz" says more
than "Langzeitabwesenheit". Absences predating the field have none and
fall back to the generic name rather than to a guess, and a value outside
the list is dropped rather than echoed into the UI.
- The export prints the display name, not the raw enum: a payroll hand-off
reading "Karenz" for what the app calls Langzeitabwesenheit only causes
questions. Audit filter options keep their stored values and change only
their labels.
- The seed spreads the twelve absences across the kinds; all of them being
Karenz would leave any breakdown by kind invisible.
Positions
- Removed the "Besetzen" action, the StaffInternallyModal behind it and the
now-unreachable staffPositionInternally server action: a position is filled
through the hire process, not from the positions list. Note that
transfer_employee has no position_id at all and never touched `positions`,
so with staff_position_internally out of the UI, hire_employee is the only
thing that closes a position — a transfer into an open one leaves it open.
The RPC itself is still in the database and still covered by its tests.
SVNR
- Austrian social security numbers are now validated: ten digits, weighted
check digit mod 11, and the TTMMJJ tail cross-checked against birth_date,
which is what catches a transposed date that a valid check digit would let
through. A serial whose weighted sum lands on 11 is rejected rather than
wrapped — those are never issued.
- Applies to Austrian locations only; the German/Czech/Slovenian equivalents
have their own formats and stay free-form.
- Enforced by a trigger, not inside hire_employee/change_employee_data, for
the same reason as the assignment history: both have been redefined by
half a dozen migrations. Only a *newly written* value is checked, so a
legacy number never blocks an unrelated transfer or address change.
- The seed drew a random four-digit prefix, so its check digit was right
only by chance and every seeded Austrian row would now be rejected;
it computes the check digit properly now.
Tech stack
- next 16.2.11 closes nine advisories against 16.2.10, including a
middleware/proxy bypass in App Router apps on Turbopack — proxy.ts is this
app's entry gate. RLS remains the real boundary, so the blast radius was a
blank page rather than data, but it is a patch-level fix. Also react
19.2.8, tailwind 4.3.3, lucide-react 1.26, supabase-js/ssr, postcss.
- CI runs lint, typecheck, schema/type drift, tests and build; a second job
replays every migration onto an empty database and runs the integration
suite against it, so a migration that cannot be replayed from scratch
fails here instead of during a restore.
- scripts/check-schema-types.mjs diffs the hand-written lib/supabase/types.ts
against the migrations. Reading the SQL rather than a live database keeps
Postgres out of the fast CI job. Verified in both directions.
- vitest now runs two projects: node for logic, jsdom for components. The
first component test covers the org chart expand control, which broke
earlier this session when elementsSelectable={false} made React Flow
compute pointer-events:none for the whole node; re-introducing that prop
fails three of these tests.
- Content-Security-Policy is emitted report-only. Enforcing a policy derived
from inspection rather than from violation reports risks blanking the app;
'unsafe-inline' on script-src is required until a nonce is threaded through
proxy.ts, which is a separate change.
- Fixed supabase/seed.ts, which this session's SVNR change had broken: the
extensionless "../lib/svnr" import does not resolve under Node's ESM
loader, so the seed failed at startup.
- engines pinned to node >=22 <25, tsconfig target ES2022, and the dead
test:e2e script removed (no Playwright is installed).
Data model
- employee_assignments records org placement over time (valid_from/valid_to),
written by a trigger on `employees` rather than inside each RPC: ~70
`update employees` statements spread over fifteen migrations mean per-call
bookkeeping would miss paths today and again with every future RPC. A
partial unique index enforces the one-open-interval invariant the trigger
relies on when closing the current row.
- The Organigramm gains a Stichtag (default today). Membership comes from
entry/exit/karenz, past placement from the new history, future placement
projected from pending_org_changes. Placements predating the migration are
backfilled with today's values and flagged as such in the UI, since
employee_history only ever stored free text and cannot be reconstructed.
Correctness
- Reports and exports silently truncated at PostgREST's 1000-row cap
(db.max_rows); employee_history is already past it at ~800 staff. Every
whole-table read now pages explicitly.
- XLSX date cells were a day early: ExcelJS converts a Date to an Excel
serial straight off getTime(), so a Date built at local midnight lands on
the previous day's serial in any positive-offset zone.
- Date handling is pinned to Europe/Vienna throughout, and date-only strings
are formatted without a Date round-trip. The dashboard's YTD window was
built by round-tripping a local Date through toISOString(), which shifted
it a day early and dropped 31 December entirely.
- Export routes parsed measure/group/split/eventType with unchecked `as`
casts, so an unknown value reached column headers as `undefined` and the
Content-Disposition filename. Parsed against the label maps now, with the
filename slugged as a backstop.
- toXlsx keyed columns by header text, silently dropping the second of any
two columns sharing a name — split columns take their header from data.
- The org chart tree walks had no cycle guard; nothing in the schema forbids
a manager_id cycle, and one would hang the tab rather than misreport.
- The login page reflected ?error= verbatim, letting anyone put arbitrary
text on the real sign-in screen; messages are looked up by code now.
- React Flow needs elementsSelectable on, or it sets pointer-events:none on
the whole node and the expand control stops responding.
UI
- Mobile: the shell was unusable below lg — a fixed 236px margin pushed
content off-screen with no mobile navigation at all. The sidebar is now a
drawer, dvh replaces vh, safe-area insets are honoured, inputs are 16px so
iOS stops zooming on focus, and form grids stack.
- Org chart nodes redesigned: per-kind accent stripes and icons, vacant
roles called out, expand control moved to the bottom edge carrying the
child count.
- Pagination is windowed; it previously rendered one link per page (54 for
the employee list, unbounded for the audit log).
- Positions page reduced to open positions with a single "Besetzen" action.
- The employee Organisation tab links into the org chart focused on that
person, reusing the chart's existing search-match highlighting.
Also included, uncommitted until now
- Dependants, HR notes, academic titles, split address fields, position
validity and role/employment fields, with their migrations and UI.
- Docker/compose deployment setup, data-model and security-review docs.
Adds the Berichte export pipeline (/api/export/{report,events,employees})
with shared CSV/XLSX writers in lib/export.ts and lib/reports-data.ts.
Security pass alongside it: sanitize .or() search terms against PostgREST
filter injection, sanitize spreadsheet cells against CSV/Excel formula
injection, stop leaking raw DB error messages to clients, harden the
service-role client with server-only, add baseline security headers, and
bump the vulnerable nested postcss via an override.
Reworks the app from a two-role (hr_admin/manager) model to a single
HR-only role gated by profiles.is_active, fixes transfer/promote/karenz/
reorg RPCs to actually defer future-dated changes via a new
pending_org_changes table instead of writing them immediately (applied
by a daily Vercel Cron route), makes reorg undo append-only instead of
deleting history, adds Karenz-return and history-date integrity guards,
deprecates the salary column, and adds explicit schema grants + perf
indexes needed to run against a fresh (non-hosted) Postgres instance.
Adds vitest unit + integration test suites (the latter against a real
local Supabase instance) covering all of the above, plus lint/typecheck/
build wiring (`npm run check`).
