# List absence types

Operation ID: `absenceTypes`

Group: People Management › Absence Types

[Open in the interactive reference](https://docs.api.lensing.ai/lensing/v1/endpoints/absenceTypes)

`GET /people/absence-types`

Read-only: Reads and returns; changes nothing.

Lists absence types.

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Api-Version` | header | string · v1 | yes | The API version this request targets, named by its public identifier. Required on every request; omitting it, or naming a version this company does not have, is answered with 400. This document describes version `v1`. |

## Query surface

- `id` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between, like
- `name` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between, like
- `category` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between, like
- Orderable: id, name, category
- Selectable: id, name, category, description
- `page[size]` — Page size
- `page[cursor]` — Opaque continuation cursor

## Response

`200` Success

Under `data`, an array of absenceTypesRow:

| Field | Type | Required | Filter | Sort | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | yes | The unique identifier for the absence type. |
| `name` | string | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | yes | The name of the absence type. |
| `category` | string | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | yes | The category the absence type belongs to. Possible values: 'sickLeave', 'vacation', 'other', 'overtime'. |
| `description` | string \| null | no | no | no | A description of the absence type. |

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
      "name": "<name>",
      "category": "<category>",
      "description": "<description>"
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "hasMore": true,
    "nextCursor": "<nextCursor>"
  }
}
```

## Statuses

- `400` — Invalid request or business failure
- `401` — The request carries no valid access token.
- `403` — Not authorized
- `404` — Not found
- `429` — Too many requests from this client address. The response has no body and no `Retry-After` header.
- `500` — Internal server error