Status chips and technical values
The colours of every chip, and what the lowercase status words, approval rule texts and user ids on some screens mean.
Some HCM screens show technical values: lowercase status words, approval rule texts and user ids. This article explains them, and the colour of every chip.
Leave requestpendingapprovedrejectedcancelled
Approval stepreadywaitingapprovedrejectedskipped
EmployeeactiveleaveterminatedLinkedNone
Settings listsActiveArchivedUntrackedDenmark - ferielovenEnabledDisabled
Holidays and statementsStatutoryCustomaryLiveClosed
Delegations and auditActiveExpiredRevokedreadchangeChain intactBroken at #41
Status chips
| Where | Values and colours |
|---|---|
| Leave request | "pending" amber, "approved" green, "rejected" red, "cancelled" grey |
| Approval step | "ready" amber, "waiting" grey, "approved" green, "rejected" red, "skipped" grey (faded in the timeline) |
| Employee status | "active" green, "leave" amber, "terminated" grey |
| Account (Employees) | "Linked" green, "None" grey; on the manager roster "Yes" or "No" |
| Leave type, department, grade, document category | "Active" green, "Archived" grey; "Untracked" grey |
| Policy template | "Denmark - ferieloven" blue, with " (modified)" after a hand edit |
| Approval rule | "Enabled" green, "Disabled" amber, "Archived" grey |
| Holiday kind | "Statutory" blue, "Customary" grey |
| Holiday year in a statement | "Live" green, "Closed" grey |
| Delegation | "Active" green, "Expired" amber, "Revoked" grey |
| Field audit | "read" blue, "change" amber; "Chain intact" green, "Broken at #N" red |
A leave type's colour appears as a small dot beside its name, and fills the chips on the team calendar.
Technical values you may see
| You see | Where | It means |
|---|---|---|
| "pending", "ready", "active" and other lowercase words | Status chips | The status, shown in lowercase. "leave" means on leave. |
| "@manager:L1" | Approvals, Step column | The approval rule's text: the requester's direct manager. "@manager:L2" is the manager's manager. The person is in the Approver column. |
| "hcm_admin", "hcm_manager" | Approvals, Step column; approval rules | An approval rule for a role: the HR Administrator and HR Manager roles. |
| A long code such as "6f1c9a2e7b4d" | Delegations (Delegate), History ("recorded by"), Field audit (Actor), Linked account | A person's Juvaro user id. Match it with Linked account on employee records to find who it is. |
| "employee 3f2a9c1b…" | Field audit, Record | The record type and the first characters of its id. |
| "daysPerYear", "takeMonths", "carryoverMaxDays", "yearStart.day", "earn" | Errors in the accrual settings | Short technical names for Days per year, Can be taken for (months), Carryover cap (days), Day and Days arrive. See Accrual and holiday years. |
| "monthly", "annual", "hourly" | Salary lines in History | The pay period. |
| "departmentId", "userId", "employeeNumber" | Some messages on the employee form | Department, linked account and employee number. |
| 2026-11-23 | Leave dates | Leave dates are always year-month-day. |