Arrange temporary responsibility cover

Purpose

Temporary cover helps work reach a colleague during absence. The original holding remains the basis for the arrangement.

How It Works

The holder opens My Responsibilities and selects a colleague and end time. They can cover one eligible holding or delegate all eligible direct assignments. A manager can arrange cover for someone else. Validation checks the people and duration before saving it. The covering colleague receives a notice. Their Home identifies the person covered and displays the relevant attention. The original holder receives confirmation. Either participant or a manager can finish the arrangement early. Reconciliation reports a covering colleague who becomes inactive without automatically cancelling the arrangement.

Relationships

Assign accountability for an area of work provides the direct holdings available for temporary cover.

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The Formal Contract

The narrative above explains; the sections below are authoritative — the rules, scenarios and tests this document binds.

Outcomes: One handover covers a person’s responsibilities for their absence.Delegates receive the covered work and a banner identifying the person they cover.
Surfaces: consoleapi
Intent sources: services-platform:docs/milestones/plans/PLAT-M15-plan.md#2. Scopeservices-platform:docs/proposals/responsibilities-and-attention/16-decisions.md#D-07

Controls

17 controls apply, from the corpus control catalogue.

TC-AZ-001 TC-AZ-002 TC-AZ-003 TC-AZ-004 TC-CRY-001 TC-CRY-002 TC-CRY-003 TC-CRY-004 TC-MON-001 TC-PI-001 TC-PI-005 TC-TEN-001 TC-TEN-002 TC-TEN-003 TC-VEN-001 TC-VEN-002 TC-VEN-003

Permissions

Key	Checked at	Scope
`platform.responsibilities.delegate-own`	api	tenant
`platform.responsibilities.manage`	service	tenant
`platform.responsibilities.read`	api	tenant

Business Rules

8 rules, 8 to be proved before approval. A rule's product intent is derived from its origin: 8 confirmed by a product decision, the rest inheriting this capability's confirmed.

Id	Rule	Kind	Enforced at	Provenance
`01`must prove Confirmed	Delegating an owned assignment requires delegate-own authority, while acting for someone else requires management authority and read authority alone cannot delegate. proved by `ATS-PFM-ELG-014-01`, `TST-PFM-ELG-492`	permission	api, service	test services-platform:modules/responsibilities/tests/e2e/responsibilities.e2e.spec.js#refuses delegate-own on somebody else’s assignment, 403
`02`must prove Confirmed	Cover windows apply to active direct assignments, end after their start, last from one hour to 90 days and neither outlive the assignment nor finish in the past. proved by `ATS-PFM-ELG-014-02`, `TST-PFM-ELG-510`	validation	api, service	test services-platform:modules/responsibilities/tests/unit/rules.spec.js#refuses a window longer than 90 days
`03`must prove Confirmed	Cover must name another active console user of the same customer, rejecting self-cover, outside-customer users, ended holdings and role defaults. proved by `ATS-PFM-ELG-014-03`, `TST-PFM-ELG-498`	validation	service, database	test services-platform:modules/responsibilities/tests/integration/services/persistence/delegations.integration.spec.js#refuses a role default, pointing to a direct assignment of the same scope
`04`must prove Confirmed	Delegate everything creates one cover arrangement for every active direct assignment of the caller in one operation. proved by `ATS-PFM-ELG-014-04`, `TST-PFM-ELG-492`, `TST-PFM-ELG-494`, `TST-PFM-ELG-498`	lifecycle	service	test services-platform:modules/responsibilities/tests/integration/services/persistence/delegations.integration.spec.js#delegates every active assignment of the caller in one call, one row each
`05`must prove Confirmed	Only the original holder, the covering colleague or a responsibilities manager can end cover early. proved by `ATS-PFM-ELG-014-05`, `TST-PFM-ELG-492`, `TST-PFM-ELG-498`	permission	service	test services-platform:modules/responsibilities/tests/integration/services/persistence/delegations.integration.spec.js#refuses a third person ending a delegation, and leaves it active
`06`must prove Confirmed	Active cover adds the delegate as a covering holder, presents the delegator’s items and a named expiry banner, with those additions removed when cover ends. origin: services-platform:docs/milestones/plans/PLAT-M15-plan.md#PLAT-M15-S05 proved by `ATS-PFM-ELG-013-13`, `ATS-PFM-ELG-014-06`, `ATS-PFM-ELG-014-09`, `ATS-PFM-ELG-014-11`, `ATS-PFM-ELG-017-16`, `TST-PFM-ELG-377`, `TST-PFM-ELG-393`	calculation	service, console	test react-console:acceptance/platform-attention/playwright/journeys/responsibilities/RA-ACC-0002.spec.ts#RA-ACC-0002
`07`must prove Confirmed	Each handover sends the delegate one notice naming the holder, assignment count and end, and confirms the arrangement to the original holder. proved by `ATS-PFM-ELG-014-07`, `TST-PFM-ELG-491`, `TST-PFM-ELG-494`	policy	service	test services-platform:modules/responsibilities/tests/integration/services/notices/responsibility-notices.integration.spec.js#tells the delegate once and confirms to the person who delegated, even though they are the one acting
`08`must prove Confirmed	Nightly reconciliation reports cover assigned to a user who became inactive without ending the delegation. proved by `ATS-PFM-ELG-014-08`, `ATS-PFM-ELG-014-10`, `ATS-PFM-ELG-015-08`, `TST-PFM-ELG-502`	policy	service	test services-platform:modules/responsibilities/tests/integration/services/reconcile/reconcile-tenant.integration.spec.js#(d) reports a delegation to a user who is no longer active, and leaves it active

Scenarios

Id	Given	When	Then	Provenance
`01`	Pat has posting responsibility before leave.	Pat arranges all eligible direct cover with Sam through Friday.	Sam’s Home includes named cover and Pat’s items until the cover is ended.	test react-console:acceptance/platform-attention/playwright/journeys/responsibilities/RA-ACC-0002.spec.ts#RA-ACC-0002

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