Allowing Events To Be Requested In The Past Normally events cannot be requested for dates in the past by Managers and Employees, but only by Administrators. However, sometimes you may want to allow some event types to be requested in the past by anyone and this can be achieved by ticking the ‘Enable In The Past’ …
Location Specific Public Holidays Public holidays are inherently regional and that is catered for in the way LeaveWizard handles them. Each Public Holiday calendar allows you to specify both the country and location for which it applies. In that way the specified Public Holiday events will only be applicable to users in that country and …
Automatically Update Public Holiday Calendars When Public Holiday calendars are created, by default they do not automatically update. This means you need to manually add the Public Holiday templates of subsequent years for a country to the existing calendar or to a newly created one. In the example below, the selected calendar has Public Holidays for the UK in …
Allowing Events To Be Recorded On Non-Working Days Sometimes you may want to record events on a non-working day for your users. Normally, non-working days are not recorded when a user makes a requests. For example, if the user works Monday to Friday only, events that include Saturday and Sunday will not be recorded and …
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Setting Up Hour Based Leave For Part-Time Users A common scenario for many companies is to have the majority of their users working full-time and a few part-time. Often with the full-time users making day based holiday requests against an allowance in days per year, e.g. 20 days per annum and the part-time ones making requests …
Base Event Types LeaveWizard allows you to create as many event types as you need. There are several different base event types, each of which provides slightly different behaviour, within LeaveWizard. Any event type created is based on one of these types. Below is a summary of each of the base types to help you …
The Bradford Factor The Bradford Factor is a human resources tool used to measure worker absenteeism. LeaveWizard supports automatic Bradford Factor calculation with the option to include one or more absence types. The Bradford Factor is calculated as follows: B = S × S × D where: B is the Bradford Factor S is the total number of …
The Approver Tree The Approver tree is accessed from the Approver Setup page by clicking on the ‘View Approver Tree’ button. It provides the user with a different perspective of the approver setup. It is structured by Workgroup, Approver and leave types. You can ‘drag and drop’ unapproved employees onto the approval tree to assign …
Custom Groups Custom User Groups are used to associated users with each other. You can think of them like workgroups that have users from different locations and/or workgroups. An example of how you might use them is to group together all users from Sales departments who are in different locations. Creating and managing custom user …
The LeaveWizard API LeaveWizard provides a customer accessible public Application Programming Interface (API) to allow external applications to get information, such as a list of employee events (leave and absence requests), from LeaveWizard. This article explains how an administrator can setup and test the API. From ‘Configuration’ on the main menu, select the ‘Company Settings’ …
