Last step moved the four part-time arrangements out of the absence list
and recorded the reason in the history text. That answered "what
happened" but not "who is in one right now", and the profile showed
nothing at all. So it becomes a real field: teilzeit_art, with an
optional end date.
The objection I raised then still holds — a state goes stale, because
nobody goes back to note when a Bildungsteilzeit ended. teilzeit_bis is
the answer to it: with an end date a report decides for itself what is
still running instead of trusting that someone maintained the row. Left
empty it means "open end", which is an honest thing to say.
It runs through the ordinary change machinery rather than beside it. It
sits in app_feld_karte, so it shows up in the history as a field with
before and after, and can be corrected there like any other. The
description suffix from last step is gone — writing the same thing twice
is how two versions start disagreeing.
Reporting: filter by variant, by "in one at all", and by when it ends;
group headcount by variant, where the absence of one reads "Keine"
rather than a dash, because in a report that is an answer and not a gap.
Plus columns in the export and the import.
One gap found while rehearsing, and only because the probe happened to
pick a return date in the future: a scheduled return carries its payload
through pending_org_changes, and that payload did not include the
variant. Someone would have come back on reduced hours in April with the
reason gone. The daily run now carries it too.
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Bildungsteilzeit, Elternteilzeit, Pflegeteilzeit and
Wiedereingliederungsteilzeit were offered as kinds of long-term absence.
Recorded that way, the person counted as absent: they dropped out of
headcount, their reporting line fell to a stand-in, and reports stopped
counting them — while they were in the building every week, just for
fewer hours. A part-time arrangement is not an absence; it is a change
of hours.
They now sit where they belong. Wiedereingliederungs- and Elternteilzeit
appear when recording a return from absence, as the reason someone comes
back on reduced hours — both typically begin exactly when the absence
ends. Bildungs- and Pflegeteilzeit appear under "Daten ändern" beside
the hours, next to the ordinary contractual change.
The reason is recorded with the change, not as a state on the person. A
state would have to be maintained, and nobody goes back to note when a
Bildungsteilzeit ended; a field that quietly goes stale is worse than
none. In the history it stands next to the value it explains, and stays
readable for good.
The check constraint on absence_type is deliberately untouched. Three
people carry the old values right now — two Pflegeteilzeit, one
Wiedereingliederungsteilzeit. Forbidding them would make existing rows
illegal. They are gone from the list of choices; the history stays
readable. Those three are worth revisiting, but that is a data decision,
not a code one.
Rehearsed against real data: an hours change with a reason and one
without, a reduced return with a reason and an unchanged one — checked
by reading both new history rows rather than "the latest", since now()
stands still inside a transaction and made an earlier probe report a
false negative.
I also overwrote tests/unit/absence.test.ts instead of extending it. The
original cases are restored; the diff is 49 added lines and 3 changed.
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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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A round of interface corrections from use, plus one schema change behind
them.
The private email address is now optional. It was NOT NULL — the wrong
default for a private detail: someone without one had to invent one, and
invented data in a personnel file is worse than missing data. Both fields
are relabelled to say whose they are, "Private E-Mail" and "Private
Telefonnummer", because the company address does not exist until the person
starts. Uniqueness stays; several NULLs coexist in a Postgres unique index,
which is exactly what is wanted.
The summary step still promised that "Personalnummer und
Firmen-E-Mail-Adresse werden automatisch vergeben". Neither is true any
more. Removed rather than reworded — the step lists what was entered, and a
banner claiming otherwise is worse than no banner.
Dependents move into the wizard as step three, optional. They can only be
attached after the hire, because add_employee_dependent needs an id that
does not exist while the form is open, so they are collected in the draft
and written afterwards. That puts them outside the transaction the person is
created in: if one fails the person still exists, so the message names who
is missing instead of failing silently, and the SV number is checked in the
step rather than after.
The emergency contact gets its own step, second to last, and its
relationship is a dropdown of the common ones rather than free text —
otherwise "Gattin", "Ehefrau" and "Frau" end up side by side and nothing can
be counted. "Sonstige" is there because a closed list would otherwise be
presumptuous.
On the master-data tab it now sits below the dependents rather than above:
both are people around the employee, and this is the one you reach for in a
hurry.
Returning from a long absence: the choice read "unverändert", which made you
open the file to find out what you were agreeing to. It now reads "Wie vor
Abwesenheit (38,5 h)" with the hours actually worked, and the alternative is
"Reduziert" — whose hours field starts empty on purpose. A number already
filled in gets confirmed rather than read off the agreement it comes from.
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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.
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.
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`).
- supabase/functions.sql, functions_2.sql: Postgres RPCs for every
employee/position/reorg mutation (hire, terminate, transfer, promote,
start/adjust/return karenz, change data, rehire, create position, staff
internally, apply/undo reorg). Each resolves manager_id server-side,
writes history + audit atomically, and enforces hr_admin via
require_hr_admin() (backed by the existing RLS policy).
- actions/employees.ts, positions.ts, reorg.ts: Server Actions wrapping
the RPCs, returning success/error for client-side toast handling.
- Employees list (search/filter/pagination) and detail (4 tabs: Stammdaten,
Vertrag & Gehalt, Organisation, Historie) reading from employees_directory.
- 6 action slide-over panels: Transfer, Promote, Karenz (start/adjust/
return), Daten aendern (person+contract diffing), Terminate (with direct-
report reparenting warning + offboarding checklist), Rehire.
- lib/org.ts: shared division/department/team/location lookups.
Verified live: promote mutation updates salary, writes history/audit, and
the detail page reflects it after refresh, no console errors.
Note: the spec's Karenz-verwalten panel only covers employees already on
Karenz; added a start-Karenz mode (Karenzbeginn/geplante Rueckkehr) to
cover the Aktiv-employee case implied by the header button but not
specified in the panel list.
