> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ontime.hosai.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Interactive views

> The four MCP Apps views, which tool renders each, and what happens on hosts that cannot display them.

Four tools can return a rich, interactive view instead of raw JSON, for a host capable of rendering one.

| View            | Rendered by                | Shows                                                                                                    |
| --------------- | -------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Team today**  | `ontime_team_today`        | Live team status — who is in, who is late, who needs attention, with drill-down.                         |
| **Approvals**   | `ontime_pending_approvals` | The combined queue: leave, regularizations and overtime waiting on you, with the context to decide each. |
| **Roster week** | `ontime_roster_week`       | The week grid — employees against days, with assigned shifts.                                            |
| **Payslip**     | `ontime_my_payslip`        | A payslip: earnings, deductions, net, and the attendance behind them.                                    |

These are the same four surfaces that carry the most structure in the product, which is why they are the ones worth rendering rather than describing.

## Text is the designed fallback

<Note>
  **A host that cannot render a view gets the same data as text.** That is not an error and not a degraded response — the underlying tool result is identical, only the presentation differs.

  Support for interactive MCP views is still settling across hosts. On claude.ai today the views render as text. ChatGPT likewise.
</Note>

There is nothing to configure, and no capability to request. Your host either renders the view or it shows the text.

## Permissions still apply

A view is a rendering of a tool result, not a way around the tool's gate.

* **Team today** and **Roster week** show only what your credential's scope permits.
* **Approvals** shows only requests you could actually open and decide.
* **Payslip** is your own, always — there is no view that shows somebody else's pay.

## If a view does not render

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="You get text instead" icon="file-text">
    Almost always: your host does not support interactive MCP views. This is the expected fallback.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="You get an error rather than either" icon="triangle-alert">
    The view's built assets may be missing from the deployment. That is a server-side build step, not something you can fix from the client — report it to whoever operates your OnTime instance.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>