With the Attendance module, you can manage users' time and their days off. You can define specific days as holidays or set up a number of vacation hours for each user. In addition, you can assign specific tasks as Holidays and Vacations to generate reports on holidays and vacation hours.
Settings
To set up holidays and vacations on your account open the Attendance settings. To do that click on your avatar in the upper-right corner and select the Account Settings option. You'll be redirected to the General tab where you can use the shortcut to get to the Attendance settings.
Holidays
Under the Holidays section, you can input specific dates in the YY-MM-DD format to automatically set them as Holidays in the Attendance report.
After adding these dates their date type will be automatically switched to Holiday.
Please keep in mind that this setting is not updated or automatically removed after the year ends. You need to manually insert new dates for each year.
If you remove dates from the previous year their date type will be automatically switched to the default Working day.
The additional option we provide here is Holiday Task. You can set a special task for your holidays so timesheets will be automatically filled in with this task if their day type is set to Holiday. Learn more below in this article.
Vacations
Under the Vacation hours section, you can define the general number of vacation hours for users from the group you are editing. Your coworkers can send requests for a vacation on a specific day and you will be able to view and accept or reject it in the Attendance tab.
If you want to create an exception for certain users, you can set a custom number of hours for each user in their profile settings. Personal setting will override the global setting.
To do that go navigate to the Users tab on the left side menu, click on the name of the target user to open their Profile settings and set a custom number of hours under the Vacation hours section.
Used vacation hours will be visible in the statistics in the Attendance tab.
The additional option we provide here is Vacation Task. You can set a special task for your vacations so each time you create time entries with this task on timesheets, vacation hours will be automatically added to the Attendance report. Learn more below in this article.
Day type
The day type option allows users to define whether it is a working or non-working day, add sick leave, vacations, and holidays, set the remote work, business trips, etc.
To change the day type users should send a request and their manager will be able to accept or reject the day type change.
For Supervisors and Administrators, changes will be applied immediately without requests.
Send request
To change the type of certain days, e.g. request sick leave, parental leave, vacations, etc. click on the Day Type button next to a certain date and fill in your request.
In the pop-up window choose the new day type from the list, optionally define the number of hours that should have been worked during that day or used vacation hours, and click on the Save button.
Supervisor or Administrator who manages this user will receive an email notification to approve or reject the request.
Accept requests
Administrators and Supervisors will find the additional option in the attendance report - Awaiting requests button.
This tab allows using the People filter, selecting only a certain request type, and accepting or rejecting all requests at once.
Learn more about day types from this article.
Vacation & Holiday task
Except for setting specific days as Holidays and defining Vacation hours to use we provide an additional option to add Holiday and Vacation tasks.
This feature will allow you to include Holidays and Vacation time into project Reports.
Holiday Task
If you mark the checkbox next to the Fill timesheets with holiday task based on predefined holidays option in Settings and select a task that should be defined as a Holiday task, timesheets will be automatically filled in with this task if their day type is set to Holiday.
After you define specific dates as Holidays in settings or users manually change the day type to Holiday, a time entry with a Holiday task will be created on that day.
The duration time of entry will be adjusted to the default workday length or the one set when manually changing the day type.
Vacation Task
If you select a task that should be defined as a Vacation task, then each time users create a time entry with this task on timesheets, vacation hours will be automatically added to the Attendance report.
After user creates a time entry and assigns a Vacation task, the duration time of this entry will be automatically added as vacation hours in the Attendance tab on that day.
Deducting vacation hours won't affect the day type. Users still need to manually change their day types to Vacation.