Employee names now read "Winkler, Hannah" wherever a person appears in a
list, a table, a heading or a tree node. That is the order a personnel
list is kept in, it is the order people are looked up in, and it finally
matches the sorting — the employee list has always been ordered by
surname, which made an alphabetical page look unsorted.
The name was being assembled inline in about twenty places. A rename
that catches half of them is worse than none, so it now goes through
fmtName in lib/format.ts and every display site calls it.
Sentences keep the natural order: "Hannah Winkler wurde versetzt" reads
like German, "Winkler, Hannah wurde versetzt" reads like a form. So the
toasts are unchanged and only labels moved.
Two things the change would have quietly broken:
The org chart's own filter matched against "first last". It now matches
either order, with or without the comma, so typing what you see works
and so does typing what you remember.
The print model sorted by the last word of the composed name, which
happened to be the surname and is now the first name — every printed
unit would have come out sorted by first name. It sorts on the surname
field itself now, which is what it meant all along.
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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.
Accessibility work on the UI layer, all of it rooted in one structural gap:
there were no form primitives, so every field was hand-assembled and every
field got the same details wrong.
Form primitives
- components/ui/Field.tsx (Field/TextField/SelectField/TextareaField) and
Button.tsx. Field generates the control id with useId and derives htmlFor
from it, which is what makes the association impossible to omit rather
than merely conventional.
- 92 labels existed, 4 used htmlFor, and no input carried an id at all: a
screen reader announced an unnamed edit box and clicking a label focused
nothing. Now every label resolves to its control (0 unassociated), and the
input class chain that appeared verbatim 85 times appears zero times.
- Field also takes a render prop, so Lookup, CountryPicker and Picklist get
the same wiring instead of a second, partial solution.
- SearchInput replaces three hand-rolled copies of the icon-in-a-box search
whose input had only a placeholder — not a label — and killed its own
focus ring with outline-none and nothing in its place.
- Toggle groups (workdays, reorg change type) became fieldsets with
aria-pressed; colour alone was carrying the selected state.
Comboboxes
- Lookup and CountryPicker were text inputs with a div of clickable buttons
underneath: typeable, but no keyboard path to a result and nothing telling
a screen reader a list had appeared. Both now carry role=combobox,
aria-expanded/controls/activedescendant and listbox semantics, with arrow
keys, Enter and Escape. Escape stops propagation, or it would close the
surrounding dialog along with the dropdown.
Dialogs
- useDialogFocus centralises what Modal and SlideOver each owed the
keyboard and neither provided beyond Escape: focus into the dialog on
open, Tab and Shift+Tab cycling within it, focus restored to the trigger
on close.
- SlideOver stays mounted for its transition, and aria-hidden does not
remove anything from the tab order — so every closed panel was leaving
invisible tab stops at the end of the page. `inert` fixes that.
Route states
- loading.tsx, error.tsx, not-found.tsx and global-error.tsx. Every page in
the (app) group is server-rendered per request, so without loading.tsx a
navigation showed nothing at all until the server answered, and a render
error dropped the user on Next's own screen with no way back.
Tests
- 22 component tests (vitest jsdom project). Two of them found limits of the
environment rather than of the code: jsdom implements neither `inert` nor
scrollIntoView, so the inert test asserts the attribute and the missing
scrollIntoView — which was taking the whole render down from inside an
effect — is stubbed in the setup file.
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.
- components/orgchart/: 3-way segmented view sharing one server fetch
(switching tabs doesn't refetch):
- EmployeeTree: expand/collapse hierarchy from the CEO down, search with
auto-expand-to-match and highlighting, "Bereiche anzeigen" /
"Alles einklappen".
- PositionTree: models the org *structure* (GF -> Bereichsleitung ->
Abteilung -> Teamleitung -> grouped IC positions by title, expandable
to the actual holders) independent of who's currently in it, plus
dashed rows for open requisitions linking to /positions.
- ReorgWorkbench: batch multiple moves (employees / whole team / whole
department / whole division as source, always a specific team as
target), live headcount-impact table, apply via the existing
apply_reorg RPC, and an undo card wired to undo_reorg.
Bug found via live apply+undo testing: undo_reorg's cleanup DELETE on
employee_history silently matched zero rows, because that table has no
DELETE policy at all (by design, for audit immutability) - RLS filters
DELETE-eligible rows to none rather than erroring. Added
supabase/functions_3.sql: a policy scoped to hr_admin deleting only rows
that carry a reorg_scenario_id, so every other history event type stays
genuinely immutable. Verified live: apply moves an employee and updates
the headcount table correctly; undo reverts team/division/manager AND
now actually removes the Reorganisation history entries it created.
Simplification flagged here (not hidden): the spec's "Ganzes Team /
Ganze Abteilung / Ganzer Bereich" reorg moves the structural org unit
itself to a new division; this implementation resolves all four move
kinds down to individual employee moves against a specific target team,
since the schema's team->department->division chain doesn't support
freely reparenting a team object without also picking a department. The
workbench UI, headcount-impact math, and apply/undo all work correctly
under this model - only the exact "move the team as a unit" semantics
differs from the literal spec wording.
