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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Works council members, expectant mothers, parents on leave, registered
disabled employees, apprentices — each has its own rules that come
before a dismissal. The tool does not judge whether one is lawful, but
it must not stay quiet about it either, and looking it up on the
contract tab is exactly the step that gets skipped under time pressure.
So: a checkbox, an optional end date, and a red warning at the top of
the termination panel naming the date — or saying plainly that no end
was recorded. It shows for a no-show too; the protection runs from the
start of the contract, not the first day worked.
The date is optional on purpose. A works council mandate has a known
end, a pregnancy does not, and a mandatory field would force an invented
number. A constraint says only what cannot be: an end date without the
flag, which would be a leftover nobody could interpret.
The field goes the whole way through — hire, data change, contract
sheet, export, report criteria (as a yes/no and as a date range), and
the import. A field that exists in one screen and not the next is how
people stop trusting the numbers.
Terminating is now offered for planned entries as well, labelled "Nicht
angetreten", with No Show preselected. Without it a person who never
turned up stayed a planned entry forever, since nothing else can end
one.
One finding worth recording: tsc has been reporting success on a broken
program. A generated file under .next got corrupted when a build ran
against a live dev server, and its syntax errors suppressed semantic
checking everywhere else — two genuine type errors in this change went
unreported until I typechecked with .next excluded. The file is removed
and the ordinary typecheck is meaningful again.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Someone hired who then does not start needs an exit reason of its own,
and until now the case could not be recorded at all. Terminating on the
entry date failed on chk_assignment_range: the assignment was closed
with valid_to = valid_from, and an empty interval is forbidden there.
Moving the exit to the next day would have claimed a day of employment
that never happened — headcount, tenure, every as-of report.
"No Show" is now an exit reason, and it behaves differently in three
ways.
The exit date is always the entry date, whatever the caller passed. That
is what makes "never active" true rather than asserted: a person counts
as employed when their exit date is *after* the reporting date, and here
it never is. The status derivation needed no change at all — it already
says Geplant before the entry date and Ausgetreten from it on.
The position assignment is deleted rather than closed. The post was
never filled, it goes back to being open, and nothing records a holder
who never held it.
The status column goes to Ausgetreten immediately, even for an entry
still in the future. Otherwise it would read Geplant forever — nothing
runs later to correct it.
A constraint holds the first of those regardless of the path in,
including the import: exit_reason is distinct from 'No Show' or
exit_date = entry_date. "is distinct from" rather than "<>" so an empty
reason does not evaluate to null and slip through — the same three-
valued trap that let an earlier check pass the case it was written to
stop.
The dialog locks the date field when No Show is picked and says why, so
nobody types a date that would then be silently overridden. The
offboarding checklist is hidden: nothing was ever handed out.
Rehearsed against real data — a planned entry with a 2099 date passed
in, which came back as the entry date; derived status across three
reporting dates never Aktiv; a direct write with a mismatched date
refused; and an ordinary termination unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The contract sheet had one field, "Merkmale", holding whatever applied,
comma-separated — and a dash when nothing did. Two problems in one row.
A dash cannot distinguish "has no company car" from "nobody ever
answered the question", and the entry read "Dienstwagen" without saying
which kind, which is the thing worth knowing since electric vehicles are
tracked separately.
Betriebsrat, Dienstwagen, laterale Führung and C-Level are now four
lines like every other line on the sheet, each with Ja or Nein. The
company car shows its drivetrain instead: E-KFZ or Verbrenner.
That label existed in three places — the dropdown, the hire summary and
now here. It lives in lib/dienstwagen.ts, so the same car cannot end up
named differently depending on which screen you are looking at.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Deleting and correcting a history entry stopped at the present: anything
not yet effective stayed put. That was not a principle, it was a missing
link. A planned change lives as a payload in pending_org_changes, and
nothing tied it to the history row — only a person and a date, and the
data already holds an Eintritt and a Vertragsänderung sharing one. So
employee_history now carries pending_id, set by change_employee_data
when it schedules something.
One planned change can carry two history rows: Stammdaten and Vertrag
are kept apart but scheduled together. Taking one back therefore strips
only that group's fields from the payload, and cancels the operation
only when nothing is left. Correcting one rewrites its group and the
effective date, and touches no employee data — the change has not
happened yet.
An entry stays on its side of the present. Pulling a planned change into
today, or pushing an effective one into the future, would mean adjusting
the employee record and the pending payload in opposite directions;
that is what the real operations are for.
Existing rows were linked where exactly one running operation matched
the person and date and no other row had claimed it. All five of them
matched. Anything ambiguous would have kept the old refusal, which now
says the actual reason.
The edit dialog surfaced a bug in useDialogFocus that predates it: the
effect depended on the identity of onClose, which almost every caller
rebuilds on render, so it re-ran after each keystroke and its cleanup
pulled focus back to whatever opened the dialog. Any dialog with a text
field would have accepted one character. It never showed because until
now no dialog kept its own state next to its own onClose.
Rehearsed against real data: a two-row planned change corrected, one row
taken back with the operation continuing on the rest, the second taken
back with the operation cancelled, and both refusals.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
HR can now delete a history entry, but only where deleting one is an
honest thing to do — and deleting it also undoes it.
The rule they asked for is the interesting part: the last valid change
wins. Deleting an entry walks its fields one at a time. If a later entry
touched the same field, the current value stays — that later change is
the one in force. Otherwise the field goes back to what the deleted
entry recorded as its "before". So the middle of three entries can be
removed without an old value overwriting a newer one.
Four kinds of entry refuse to be deleted, each saying why in the place
the button would have been. Eintritt anchors the timeline. Transfers,
promotions, absences and exits moved positions and status — they have
proper operations for that, and guessing backwards is how you corrupt an
org chart. Anything not yet effective hangs off a planned change, and
that link is not trustworthy: there is no key between a history row and
its pending row, only a person and a date, and the data already has an
Eintritt and a Vertragsänderung sharing one. Matching on the date would
eventually cancel a change nobody meant. And entries from before the
history carried values have nothing to fall back to.
Confirmation is not "are you sure" — that question gets a reflex yes by
the third time. The dialog says what will be different afterwards: which
field goes back to which value, and which one stays because something
later claimed it.
employee_history keeps its append-only policies; delete_history_entry is
SECURITY DEFINER and checks the permission itself in its first line. The
audit log keeps the deletion with the values that were removed, and the
audit log genuinely cannot be edited.
The rule lives twice — in SQL and in lib/history.ts. The database is the
authority; the copy exists so the UI can hide a button that would fail
and print the reason instead. Rehearsed against real data in a
rolled-back transaction first: the later change held, the untouched
field reverted, all four refusals fired.
Also corrected in the data catalogue: I had written that
require_hr_admin was called by nothing. It guards all sixteen mutating
functions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
HR reported it from testing: change someone's address and their history
shows "Geänderte Felder: Adresse, Ort" — the new address is on the
Stammdaten tab, the old one is nowhere. It was recorded, but only in the
audit log, which is a different page sorted by time and actor rather
than by person. So you had to already know what you were looking for to
find out whether an address had ever changed, let alone what it used to
be.
The field-by-field diff was being built anyway and written to the audit
log. employee_history now carries the same list, and the person's
history renders it as an expandable Feld / Vorher / Nachher table — the
same table the audit log uses, lifted into a shared component so the two
views don't drift into reading differently. It expands with <details>,
so the values are in the page: findable with Ctrl+F, present when
printed, no script involved.
The duplication with audit_log is deliberate. A person's history should
be readable on its own, including after the log is eventually thinned by
a retention rule.
Rows written before today stay without values. They could only be
reconstructed from the audit log, and the link is not reliable — no key,
only a timestamp and a person. Honestly empty beats plausibly wrong.
The migration was generated from the live function definition rather
than retyped, and the diff is four lines: two column lists, two value
lists. It carries a self-check that raises if either insert failed to
pick up the new column, and it was rehearsed inside a rolled-back
transaction against real data first — the probe confirmed the old street
name lands in the history row.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Opening the org chart PDF preview locked up the browser tab. The
measurement that fits each sheet to the page fed itself: the effect
listed onFaktor in its dependencies, and onFaktor was an arrow function
created fresh on every render, so the effect re-ran after every render.
It measured, reported the scale, and the report called setState with a
newly built object every time — new object, so React saw a change,
re-rendered, and the effect ran again. Measure, render, measure, until
React gave up with "Maximum update depth exceeded".
Two changes, and the mutation test says either one closes the loop on
its own: the callback now lives in a ref so the effect depends only on
the sheet identity, and the reducer returns the previous state unchanged
when the scale has not moved. Both are worth keeping — the ref stops the
effect from re-running, the guard stops pointless renders.
This shipped broken, and the reason it shipped is in the test file now.
Every element in jsdom is zero pixels, so the measurement bailed out on
its first line and the feedback never started; nine tests covering the
selection, the page count and the hierarchy all passed against a
component that froze on contact with a real browser. The new test gives
the elements a size, and fails with the exact error a user hits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Six divisions, each with its departments beside it, ran off the edge of
the sheet. The cause was structural, not cosmetic: every level spread
horizontally, so width multiplied with depth. Six divisions times three
departments is eighteen boxes across a landscape A4 — about two
millimetres each, if they had fitted at all, which they did not. They
overlapped and were clipped at the margin.
Now only one level spreads sideways. The divisions stand in a row and
everything below them hangs lengthwise off a vertical line, so width is
the number of divisions and nothing else. Depth costs height instead,
and on a landscape page height is what there is to spare.
What still overhangs is scaled down as a whole. The sheet in the preview
now carries the print area's exact dimensions rather than growing with
its contents, so the fit is measured against the real page: what you see
is what the printer gets. If a sheet has to shrink below 55% to fit, it
says so and points at A3, instead of quietly producing something nobody
can read.
With names switched on, each department gets its own sheet — a whole
division with every name was never going to be legible on one page — and
long name lists set in two columns so the box grows sideways rather than
pushing the scale down.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The chart on screen is an infinite canvas: you zoom in, drag around, and
look at one corner at a time. Paper has none of that. Printing the canvas
means scaling 850 people onto one sheet, which yields boxes two
millimetres wide — technically the whole company, practically nothing.
So the print view is rebuilt rather than shrunk, and it does two things
the canvas cannot.
It asks before it prints. Depth (bereiche, abteilungen, teams, or teams
with every name) and which divisions, each one selectable. Whoever needs
Produktion for a meeting gets two sheets instead of forty, and the page
count is on the button before anything reaches the printer.
And it draws the hierarchy as a hierarchy: boxes joined by connecting
lines, not a column of cards. Superior and subordinate are the entire
point of an org chart; a tidy list of the same units simply does not say
it. The lines come from borders on pseudo-elements, so the PDF keeps
them as vectors and they stay sharp when someone zooms in. Header
shading gets weaker with each level down, which survives the black-and-
white printer that most of these end up on.
Overview sheet first, then one sheet per selected division, each
carrying its own heading and headcount so page seven is still readable
on its own. A4 or A3, landscape.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
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).
