Vacation planning¶
Goal: you manage employees’ vacation days and absences — submit and approve requests, and view them in the group calendar.
The vacation planning module lets you manage employees’ vacation days and absences.
Functions
Enter employees’ preferred vacation dates via the web interface.
Check whether there are overlaps between requested vacation days and scheduled activities.
Approve entered vacation requests (based on the vacation planning organization chart).
Flexible summary of the absences of all team members.
Import vacation days from other applications.
Access rights
To submit a vacation request and view the vacation calendar and account, a user needs the Vacation planning-user user role. If a user has the Vacation planning supervisor user role, they can also view this information for subordinate users (based on the vacation planning organization chart).
Accounts¶
You can edit the number of vacation days and the remainder from the previous year.
Group calendar¶
You can create group calendars so team members can take other teammates’ vacation plans into account. An employee can belong to several groups at the same time.
Submit a vacation request¶
Step by step¶
Click the New request button.
In the New request dialog, enter the following information:
select an employee from the list
start and end of the vacation
vacation type
optionally, a comment
Check the result¶
The request appears in the request list. If a user has the Vacation planning supervisor user role, they can approve the request.
Requests can be edited, accepted, and deleted. If there is an overlap
between vacation days and scheduled work, the symbol 
appears
in the Actions column.
Calendar¶
If non-working days are marked with an underscore 
or
, they were taken over from the resource pool of Rillsoft
Project.
Event log¶
