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closes #66

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  • New Features
    • Approval decisions can include comments, which are displayed in request details, history, and leave calendar labels.
    • Request details and history show the decision, approval method, approver, and decision date where applicable. Comments are hidden for direct submissions.
    • Approval and denial emails include the decision comment when one is provided.
    • Recent requests are easier to identify as interactive rows, and selecting a calendar date brings the relevant day into focus.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Blank comments are handled cleanly, and comments over 2,000 characters are rejected.

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Approval decisions now accept comments, and server responses include decision metadata. Comments appear in selected email and client views. The faculty calendar also scrolls to and marks a supplied focus date.

Changes: Approval decisions and comments

Layer / File(s) Summary
Submit and store decision comments
client/src/queries/approvals.ts, client/src/shared/approvals/PendingApprovalsPanel.tsx, client/src/routes/(authenticated)/approvals.tsx, server/Services/ApprovalWorkspaceService.cs, server/Controllers/AdminDepartmentsController.cs, server.core/Domain/LeaveRequestActionReasonCodes.cs
The approval interface sends an optional comment with each decision. The service trims and stores comments, rejects comments over 2,000 characters, and assigns a reason code to workflow-change auto-approvals.
Expose decision metadata in responses
server/Services/ApprovalWorkspaceService.cs, server/Services/FacultyDashboardService.cs, client/src/queries/faculty.ts, client/src/shared/approvals/approvalTypes.ts, tests/server.tests/Services/ApprovalWorkspaceTests.cs
Workspace and faculty responses include decision, approval method, decision-maker, and comment data. Queries load request actions and actor records.
Add decision comments to notifications
server.core/Notification/LeaveRequestEmailPipeline.cs, tests/server.tests/Notification/LeaveRequestEmailDeliveryServiceTests.cs
Approved, denied, and finalized-for-routing email messages append a trimmed action comment when one is present. The delivery test checks the message body.
Display decision details in client views
client/src/shared/approvals/LeaveOverviewCalendar.tsx, client/src/shared/faculty/FacultyDashboardModals.tsx, client/src/shared/faculty/FacultyDashboardCalendar.tsx, client/src/shared/faculty/FacultyDashboardPage.tsx, client/src/routes/(authenticated)/history.tsx, client/src/shared/faculty/RequestHistoryTable.tsx
Approval calendar labels and titles include eligible comments. Request details show approval method and decision information. The history table adds a comment column and suppresses comments for direct submissions.

Faculty calendar focus

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scroll to and mark the focused date
client/src/shared/faculty/FacultyDashboardCalendar.tsx, client/src/shared/faculty/FacultyDashboardPanels.tsx
The calendar scrolls into view when a focus date is supplied and marks the matching day. Selecting a date or Today clears the focus. The recent request row receives updated hover and cursor styling.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  actor Reviewer
  participant PendingApprovalsPanel
  participant ApprovalsRoute
  participant submitApprovalDecision
  participant ApprovalWorkspaceService
  Reviewer->>PendingApprovalsPanel: Enter comment and choose decision
  PendingApprovalsPanel->>ApprovalsRoute: Send request, decision, and comment
  ApprovalsRoute->>submitApprovalDecision: Submit decision input
  submitApprovalDecision->>ApprovalWorkspaceService: Send decision and comment
  ApprovalWorkspaceService->>ApprovalWorkspaceService: Normalize and store action comment
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Calendar focus can show the wrong day after navigation, and part of a request row appears clickable when it is not. These bounded issues do not block merging, but merit follow-up.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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server/Services/FacultyDashboardService.cs: 1

663-670: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Share one GetApprovalMethod implementation. Both services contain the same method, including a fragile exact-English-string match on the auto-approve comment. The two copies can diverge.

  • server/Services/FacultyDashboardService.cs#L663-L670: remove the private copy and call a shared helper.
  • server/Services/ApprovalWorkspaceService.cs#L479-L486: move the method to the shared helper. Keep the comment-string match only for legacy rows, and use a shared constant for the literal used in AdminDepartmentsController.
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Review comment at @server/Services/FacultyDashboardService.cs around lines 663 -
670:
Move the duplicate GetApprovalMethod implementation into a shared helper and
update both services to call it; remove the private copies from
server/Services/FacultyDashboardService.cs lines 663-670 and
server/Services/ApprovalWorkspaceService.cs lines 479-486. Preserve the
comment-string match only for legacy rows, and define and reuse a shared
constant for the literal currently used in AdminDepartmentsController.
server.core/Notification/LeaveRequestEmailPipeline.cs: 1

377-381: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Load the decision comment only for notification types that use it.

CreateNotificationAsync runs the LeaveRequestActions.Comment query before the notification-type switch. The AutoApproved branch does not use decisionComment, so each auto-approved notification performs one unnecessary database query. Move the query into the approved, denied, and finalized-for-routing branches.

This is a narrow per-message performance refactor, not a security issue. The benefit is limited to removing one query per auto-approved notification. Razor encodes Model.Message, so this code does not establish an HTML-injection risk.

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Review comment at @server.core/Notification/LeaveRequestEmailPipeline.cs around
lines 377 - 381:
Move the LeaveRequestActions.Comment query from before the notification-type
switch in CreateNotificationAsync into only the approved, denied, and
finalized-for-routing branches that use decisionComment. Leave the AutoApproved
branch without this query.

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Review comments at @client/src/shared/faculty/FacultyDashboardCalendar.tsx:
- Line 77: Update the effect that responds to focusDate so that when the prop
changes to a date, it synchronizes both focusedDate and visibleMonth to that
date before scrolling the calendar. Preserve the existing behavior when
focusDate is absent.

Review comments at @client/src/shared/faculty/FacultyDashboardPanels.tsx:
- Line 146: Remove the row-level cursor-pointer from the div in
FacultyDashboardPanels so only the request and optional calendar buttons appear
interactive; do not make the non-button area clickable.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @server.core/Notification/LeaveRequestEmailPipeline.cs:
- Around line 377-381: Move the LeaveRequestActions.Comment query from before
the notification-type switch in CreateNotificationAsync into only the approved,
denied, and finalized-for-routing branches that use decisionComment. Leave the
AutoApproved branch without this query.

Review comments at @server/Services/FacultyDashboardService.cs:
- Around line 663-670: Move the duplicate GetApprovalMethod implementation into
a shared helper and update both services to call it; remove the private copies
from server/Services/FacultyDashboardService.cs lines 663-670 and
server/Services/ApprovalWorkspaceService.cs lines 479-486. Preserve the
comment-string match only for legacy rows, and define and reuse a shared
constant for the literal currently used in AdminDepartmentsController.

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  • client/src/queries/approvals.ts
  • client/src/queries/faculty.ts
  • client/src/routes/(authenticated)/approvals.tsx
  • client/src/routes/(authenticated)/history.tsx
  • client/src/shared/approvals/LeaveOverviewCalendar.tsx
  • client/src/shared/approvals/PendingApprovalsPanel.tsx
  • client/src/shared/approvals/approvalTypes.ts
  • client/src/shared/faculty/FacultyDashboardCalendar.tsx
  • client/src/shared/faculty/FacultyDashboardModals.tsx
  • client/src/shared/faculty/FacultyDashboardPage.tsx
  • client/src/shared/faculty/FacultyDashboardPanels.tsx
  • client/src/shared/faculty/RequestHistoryTable.tsx
  • server.core/Domain/LeaveRequestActionReasonCodes.cs
  • server.core/Notification/LeaveRequestEmailPipeline.cs
  • server/Controllers/AdminDepartmentsController.cs
  • server/Services/ApprovalWorkspaceService.cs
  • server/Services/FacultyDashboardService.cs
  • tests/server.tests/Notification/LeaveRequestEmailDeliveryServiceTests.cs
  • tests/server.tests/Services/ApprovalWorkspaceTests.cs
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  • client/src/shared/faculty/FacultyDashboardPage.tsx
  • client/src/routes/(authenticated)/history.tsx

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[focusDate, visibleRequests]
);
const [visibleMonth, setVisibleMonth] = useState(initialMonth);
const [focusedDate, setFocusedDate] = useState<string | null>(focusDate ?? null);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

focusedDate does not update when the focusDate prop changes.

useState(focusDate ?? null) only reads the prop on first render. The effect scrolls on a prop change, but focusedDate keeps the old value. After the user selects a date, focusedDate is null. A later focusDate prop change scrolls the calendar but does not mark the day. visibleMonth has the same issue. Sync both values in the effect.

🐛 Proposed fix
   useEffect(() => {
     if (focusDate) {
+      setFocusedDate(focusDate);
+      setVisibleMonth(startOfMonth(parseISO(focusDate)));
       calendarRef.current?.scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth', block: 'start' });
     }
   }, [focusDate]);

Also applies to: 94-98

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<div className="grid grid-cols-[minmax(0,1fr)_auto_auto] items-center gap-3 py-3 first:pt-0 last:pb-0">
<div className="-mx-2 grid cursor-pointer grid-cols-[minmax(0,1fr)_auto_auto] items-center gap-3 rounded px-2 py-3 transition hover:bg-base-200 first:pt-0 last:pb-0">

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make the row affordance match its click targets.

Only the request button and optional “Show in calendar” button handle clicks. The new cursor-pointer also marks the hours, status, and empty row area as interactive, but clicks there do nothing. Remove the row-level pointer cursor or make the non-button area invoke onSelectRequest.

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Review comment at @client/src/shared/faculty/FacultyDashboardPanels.tsx at line
146:
Remove the row-level cursor-pointer from the div in FacultyDashboardPanels so
only the request and optional calendar buttons appear interactive; do not make
the non-button area clickable.

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