• HR: Schools now maintain Teaching, Admin, and Support staff departments in a single list with code, short name, colour, and display order. Per-department attendance behaviour — in/out timings, week-offs, work-from-home, short-leave rules, and leave approval chains — attaches to the same record. No more entering the same department twice for HR and attendance.
• Attendance: Configure each department's clock-in rules, weekly off pattern, and multi-level approver chain from a single screen, then assign staff from each employee's profile in the HR module. Useful for CBSE, ICSE, IB, and State board schools running multi-shift teaching and office operations.
• Codes: Department codes are uppercase-only (TEACH, ADMIN_OPS, PRE_PRIMARY) so they read cleanly in salary registers and Tally exports without manual cleanup.