After plugin is installed you have to start initialization process. First, you have to be logged in to an administrator account and then access "Add-ons" (1).

There are two ways to do it. Either by accessing Manage add-ons view (2) and then clicking Configure (3) button.  (note: button is located below Vacation Manager plugin name, cloaked inside a drop-down menu).

Alternatively by clicking Initialize Vacation Manager (4) link in the sidebar.

Now you should see first step view. Here it's possible to define a Vacation Manager project:

There are several fields to fill in:

• Project Name - required field describing Vacation Manager project name;
• Project Key - a project key - that prefixes each issue in the project;
• Project Description - field describing a Vacation Manager project;
• Project Lead - a required field defines a Vacation Manager project lead, chosen user should have been granted with project management permissions.
• HR Group - any user added to a chosen HR group will have a possibility to create Teams and dedicate to it particular users and supervisors. Here they can manage and grant vacations for users. We do not recommend to use common jira groups like jira-users, jira-administators etc. to set groups mentioned above.

 Here you can read more about groups and permissions .

After clicking on next button, "Vacation Type" view should appear: Here you should see the view to configure first vacation type:

There are several fields describing Vacation Type:

• Name - Vacation Kind name
• Description - Description of a Vacation Kind
• Type - there are two kinds of Vacation Types recurring and one time
  • One-time - choosing this, you will have three another field to fill:
    • Has End Date - check Yes if you want to Vacation Type have a specified end date, check NO if you do not wish so,
    • Has Suggested Days - checking Yes shows the field where you can specify suggested days number that is to be granted
    • Suggested Days - specify days number granted to this Vacation Type (it can be changed later in Vacation Definition configuration)
  • Recurring - choosing this you will have fill these field:
    • Recurring period - how often Vacation has to start with a new period,
    • Period start date - specifies when Vacation Type starts its first period,
    • Next periods - shows how period will look like,
    • Carryover Days - defines if unused days will be rewritten to a next period,
    • Suggested Days - specify default days number granted to this Vacation Type every period (it can be changed at a later time)

You can read more about Vacation Types in Vacation Type section.

Click next. Last view is summary, you can check there if parameters are correct:

Click create to create Vacation Manager configuration.

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