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Overview
Birdview allows you to manage vacations, both corporate and personal, with great ease. The minimum vacation you can add is half a day (four hours). A wide range of vacation types are available (Leave of absence, Trade show, etc.).
Please note that the vacations calendar only allows you to view public holidays, but not to manage them. i.e. add, edit or delete. Public holidays are managed in Company settings > System lists > Public holidays.
Vacations calendar
Vacations calendar is a screen for viewing and editing vacations.
Warning
To manage your own vacations, you must have the "Manage own vacations" permission enabled in your access level.
Warning
To manage other people’s vacations, you must have the "Manage other people vacations" permission enabled in your access level.
Accessing vacations calendar
To access the vacations calendar screen, open Company settings > Vacations.
Vacation days counter
As you add a vacation to a vacations calendar, it is added to the counter of time off for the current year shown under the Summary section.
Public holidays
Public holidays are shown the same way as weekend days.
Deleting vacations
To delete a vacation
- Click the vacation you wish to delete.
- Click Delete on the vacation dialog box.
Warning
It is not possible to exclude a single day from a vacation. The only option to do so is to shorten the vacation to end one day before the date being excluded, and then adding another vacation starting one day after the date.
Exporting to CSV
To export the vacations calendar, click Export to CSV.
You can use the vacations calendar to view and manage vacations in your company excluding public holidays (see below). Effectively, the vacations page works both as a vacations report, and a set of individual user's calendars that can be edited by you if you have proper permission ("Manage other people vacations").
For managing public holidays, refer to Company schedule.
Vacation management includes viewing your own and/or other people’s vacations, changing the start date of a vacation year, and adding/deleting vacations on the calendar.
Vacations page - reporting mode
The vacations page in reporting mode displays an overall picture of days off that your users have had or are scheduled to have within a given range. Use the mouse to read the specifics for each holiday you view on the calendar on a tooltip. Like so:
Team filter
You can filter vacations by team. To do so, click the team filter and select the desired team. The filtered list will include only the members of the team.
Vacations page - editing mode
In editing mode, the vacations page allows you to edit individual users' vacation calendars. The following operations are available:
- Adding a vacation,
- Editing a vacation, and
- Deleting a vacation.
Entering editing mode
To start managing a user's vacations, click the name of the user on the list. To quickly find the user on the list, use the text search box above the list. When clicked, the name will be added to the heading Vacations at the top of the page, signifying you have accessed the selected user's vacations calendar.
Adding vacations
Provided you have the "Manage other people vacations" in your role, you can add vacations and days off for other people. As soon as you click a user on the calendar, you are transferred to the user's calendar in editing mode.
To add a single day vacation for a user:
- Click the user you want to add a vacation for.
- Choose the correct year by using the year selector.
- Click the date on the calendar you want to mark a vacation day.
- Click again, a drop-down menu will open.
- Use the full day slider to indicate if this is to be a full day vacation or half-day vacation.
- Select the type for the vacation by clicking.
To set a multiple day vacation:
- Click the user you want to add a vacation for.
- Choose the correct year by using the year selector.
- Click the beginning date of the vacation, it will get highlighted.
- Click the ending date of the vacation, a drop-down menu will open.
- Use the full day slider to indicate if this is to be a full day vacation or half-day vacation.
- Select the type for the vacation by clicking.
Editing vacations
- To change the length of a vacation: use drag-n-drop on its beginning date or ending date. As you hover the mouse over it, a "handle" appears on both dates. The mouse pointer will change shape as you place it over the "handle". When it changes, click and drag the edge of the vacation to another date thus changing its length.
- To change the type of the vacation: click the vacation, a drop-down will pop up. Select another type for it.
- To change full-day to half-day or vice versa: click the vacation, a drop-down will pop up. Click the Full-day slider to disable it if enabled, or enable if disabled.