What's new on Bromcom

This release introduces enhancements to the Absence Notifications page to improve how absences are reviewed and recorded.

What’s New

• In the Attendance Code dropdown, Authorised Absent subcodes are now available alongside the main Authorised Absent Attendance Codes, allowing absences to be accepted and fully coded in a single step. Attendance Codes without subcodes continue to display as usual, while codes with subcodes show the available subcodes instead of the main code.
• When accepting an absence notification, you can also add an optional Attendance Mark Comment (up to 200 characters) to record additional information.

• The Attendance Mark Comment column has been added to the Manage Absence Notifications table, where comments are shown as read-only and can be viewed in full via a tooltip. Note: Year Group and Tutor Group columns have also been added to the Manage Absence Notifications table.

• Attendance Mark Comments will appear in all registers where comments are allowed.

• Lastly, the Reason for Absence field is now read-only for absence notifications with a status of Awaiting Review, meaning the contact’s submitted reason cannot be changed.