Show a list of people attending (employee attendance)

[jbenton]

I am just curious how I can show “todays” calendar/widget that has a list of employees that are scheduled off/traveling. I have the pro version and am using https://wordpress.org/plugins/connections/ for my employee directory. I know that the employees will have to be manually entered each day into the calendar with is how it is currently set up on our very outdated company intranet.

Any advice will be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Nico]

Hi there Laura,

Thanks for getting in touch with us on this! Let me start by saying I’m not quite sure of what you are trying to achieve here.

From what I understand you want to show in the calendar which employees are out for the day. If that’s the case maybe the best way to do this is to create an event for each each day with outages. Then relate the folks that are out that day with the event. If ‘Connections’ has a custom post type for employees, then you could use the ‘relationship’ field type of Advanced Custom Fields plugin to relate the event with the employee. Once the two are connected it’s just a matter of displying the information in the front end.

I know this sounds really complicated but I don’t see any easier way of showing that in the calendar. If you don’t need this information to be related with events (maybe it’s just displaying a list of who is out today), then maybe adding the outages in a Google Calendar and showing it in the sidebar might work best. Not sure how each employee marks the outage or if that information is already stored in the system.

Please let me know your thoughts about it,
Best,
Nico

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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