Excuses

The Excuses feature allows members to submit absence requests directly in Discord. Each excuse record stores the start and end dates along with both an in-character (IC) and an out-of-character (OOC) reason.

Requirements

• The Excuses feature must be enabled for your team (via /setup or the Dashboard).
• You must be an added team member (added by an admin via /member add).
• You must have a folder assigned. Folders are created automatically when a member is added if a forum channel is configured.

Submitting an Excuse

Use the /excuse slash command to open the excuse modal. You will be prompted to fill in four fields:

After submitting, the bot posts an excuse embed to your folder channel. If you run /excuse from inside your folder, the embed is posted publicly; otherwise it is sent to your folder and you receive a private confirmation link.

Excuse Embed

The excuse embed includes:

• Your display name and avatar
• Excuse number (e.g. Excuse #2)
• Start date, end date, OOC reason, and IC reason
• Action buttons:
  • 📑 Summary — view your overall duty and excuse statistics
  • 📝 Edit (coming soon)
  • 🗑️ Delete (coming soon)

Input Validation

The bot validates that both the start and end dates follow the D. M. YYYY format (dots and spaces). If the format is incorrect, an ephemeral error message is shown with the values you entered.