{"id":8,"date":"2017-01-23T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T14:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogsource.theholidaytracker.co.uk\/?p=8"},"modified":"2017-06-30T14:40:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:40:52","slug":"update-3-8-company-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholidaytracke-4xhy3odrd6.live-website.com\/2017\/01\/23\/update-3-8-company-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Update 3.8 \u2013 Company Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"
Welcome to the first update of 2017. We have some big updates planned for this year, but to get you started this update contains a few small but incredibly useful features:<\/p>\n
Details on each of these features are included below.<\/p>\n
You can now grant permission for managers to view other managers\u2019 teams either in read-only mode, or with full access.<\/p>\n
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The Team Permissions panel is located on the Employee Details page and lists all the permissions the employee currently has. This includes any access they might already have if they\u2019re a deputy for another manager. From here you can revoke permissions, and add permission for additional managers\u2019 teams.<\/p>\n
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When you add permission to see another manager\u2019s team, the employee will see a tab for that team on their Team Calendar and can use the tabs to switch between teams.<\/p>\n
As with a lot of our features, we leave them turned off by default so we don\u2019t clutter your experience with features you don\u2019t need. If you\u2019re interested in the Team Permissions, drop us a line and we\u2019ll active it for you.<\/p>\n
If one of your managers leaves, or moves to a new role within the company, then changing the management structure was a laborious task. Not anymore. Now you simply go to the manager\u2019s profile and click the Replace Manager button.<\/p>\n
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You\u2019ll then be prompted to enter the name of the new manager and once you click Replace, the system will do all of the hard work for you.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve had this request from a lot of our customers. Some places close for Christmas and either enforce that their employees use some of their entitlement to cover those days, or want to mark those days as non-working days. Previously we\u2019ve taken care of that for them by running a script to add entries to everyone\u2019s calendar. Now you can do it yourself.<\/p>\n
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The Company Calendar is found in the Admin menu and works exactly like the normal Calendar. When you add an entry to the Company Calendar, it removes any entries from employee calendars that clash with it, and the event then appears on ALL employee\u2019s calendars.<\/p>\n
If you add the entry as a Holiday, it will also be subtracted from their entitlement like any other holiday.<\/p>\n
If an employee needs to change a future holiday request once it\u2019s been approved, they can use the new Request Cancellation option.<\/p>\n
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If they click on the holiday request, they can then chose Request Cancellation from the popup menu and then enter a reason why they want to cancel. This then sends an email to the employee\u2019s manager, prompting them to login and review the request.<\/p>\n
Managers have permissions that allow them to add and delete entries from the calendars of their team \u2013 this is an important feature of The Holiday Tracker. However, one of our customers asked if we could amend this so that managers can only delete future entries, not past entries. This made so much sense to us, that we decided to develop it AND make it the standard for all customers. Don\u2019t worry if you need your managers to be able to delete past entries, just drop us a line and we\u2019ll change the setting back for you.<\/p>\n
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If you have any questions or feedback regarding this update, don\u2019t hesitate to get in touch: anthony@theholidaytracker.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Welcome to the first update of 2017. We have some big updates planned for this year, but to get you started this update contains a few small but incredibly useful features: Team Calendar Permissions A flexible way to open up visibility of teams to other managers. Replace Manager Use this button to shift a whole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"yoast_head":"\n