Attendance Notification Triggers

Absence Notification Triggers

Campus Cafe now supports database triggers for Absences.  By default, when a student is marked absent from a class, Campus Cafe will log that absence in the student's audit log, found by clicking the Last Updated timestamp in the upper right hand corner of the student's profile page:

This now allows the Database Triggers (Admin Menu -> Database Triggers) settings to check the database table (ATSENT) looking for a change to the ABSENT column. A value of Y indicates a student is absent. The following image shows a trigger set up to check for a student being marked absent (going from * to Y value in the ABSENT column):

Because the absence is tied to a specific class and student, the class, semester, and student information contained in workflow merge fields will all populate when the course is marked absent, if included in the email notification in the workflow that is deployed by the Activity Tracking Template tied to the Absence notification database trigger. Refer to documentation regarding creating database triggers for more information.