Vacation planning
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.. :index:: Vacation planning

Vacation planning module allows an optimal managing of holidays and absence of employees.

**Functions**

- Enter the preferred vacation dates of employees via the web interface.
- Check if there is an overlap between the in the request set vacation days and scheduled activities.
- Approval of registered vacation dates (based on the Vacation planning organization chart).
- Flexible summary of the absence of all team members.
- Import of vacation days from other applications.

**Access rights**

In order to **submit vacation requests** and **monitor vacation calendars and accounts**, a user should have the **Leave planning user** user role.

However, if a user has the **Leave Planning Supervisor** user role, they may also view the information for subordinate users,

related to the vacation planning organizational chart.

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**Accounts**

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You can edit the number of vacation days and rest from the previous year.

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**Group calendar**

You can create group calendars to give team members a way to take into account the vacation plans of other teammates.

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An employee can belong to several groups at the same time.

**Applications**

You can submit a new vacation request using the **Create** button.

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In the **New request** dialog window, you can enter the following information:

- select an employee from the list
- the start and end date of the leave
- the type of leave
- a comment

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If you have the user role **Leave manager**, you can approve a leave request that has just been entered.

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You can edit, delete and accept requests. 

If there is an overlap between vacation days and scheduled activities, the sign |image6| appears in the column **Actions**.

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**Calendar**

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If the non-working days are marked with an underscore |image10| or |image11|, then they have been taken from the resource pool in the Rillsoft Project.

**Event log**

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.. |image0| image:: ../images/holiday_konto.png
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.. |image1| image:: ../images/holiday_konto_edit.png
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.. |image2| image:: ../images/holiday_antrag.png
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.. |image3| image:: ../images/holiday_antrag_edit.png
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.. |image4| image:: ../images/holiday_calendar.png
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.. |image5| image:: ../images/holiday_log.png
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.. |image6| image:: ../images/id_holiday_warning.png
.. |image7| image:: ../images/holiday_organigramm.png
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.. |image8| image:: ../images/holiday_new.png
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.. |image9| image:: ../images/holiday_antrag_new.png
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.. |image10| image:: ../images/holiday_art_1.png
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.. |image11| image:: ../images/holiday_art_2.png
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.. |image12| image:: ../images/holiday_gruppen_calendar.png
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