Hi,

The absence of the "To Approve" status in Odoo 18's Attendances app when creating attendance records can stem from several reasons. It could be due to a disabled approval workflow in the app's settings, insufficient user permissions, conflicts with custom or third-party modules, a specific Odoo version issue, or a customized view that hides the status.

To troubleshoot, verify the app's settings for approval options, check your user's access rights, disable custom modules to identify conflicts, inspect the view definition for the attendance record creation form, and review Odoo logs for errors. Possible solutions include enabling the approval workflow, adjusting user permissions, resolving module conflicts, restoring the original view definition, or applying an Odoo patch if it's a known bug.

Hope it helps

Hello Carrie,
I hope you are doing well

In Odoo V18, the 'To Approve' status is for overtime/extra hours approval, not general attendance status.

To enable it:

  1. Go to  Attendances → Settings 

  2. Find "Extra Hours Validation"

  3. Change from "Automatically Approved" to "Approved by Manager"

Once enabled, new attendance records will show the "To Approve" status, and managers can approve/refuse extra hours from the Attendances → Management menu.

I hope this information helps you

Thanks & Regards,
Kunjan Patel