Managing holidays and workdays [1.3.x]

HR users can define new days that will not count to used days when creating new Vacation Document. Every new created holiday can be defined as one time only, or recurring. In case of workdays - days of week.

Holidays management

Whilst being logged as an Jira's HR group user, from Navigation Bar Menu go to Management (1) ➜ Holiday Schemes (2). Now you can access scheme's name to edit it, (3) or click "Edit" hyperlink (3) - both actions have the same effect.

Edition button for a holiday scheme is also visible after accessing/editing a desired scheme. If you do not wish to go with creation of new holiday schemes and assign particular users to it, then fast track mode is enough for you (i.e. working only on Default holiday scheme), then you can use "Add holiday" button (5) to add off-work day to the calendar.

To create a new holiday scheme, please go to "Holiday Schemes" (2) and here you can add a new one. After pressing "Add holiday scheme" button (4). In the appeared prompt just type its name and press add. To populate it with off-work days, follow the below steps.

Adding new holiday

When editing a desired holiday scheme, you should see a similar view, like the one below. To add a day that will not be treated as a compulsory working one, please use "Add holiday" button:

Prompt should appear:

To add new holiday you must click on desired day on calendar and then fill up its name, Next, choose holiday type: One time - for selected year only, Yearly - for all years in selected day.

After filling in all necessary options and deciding if the event should reoccur every year, you can press "Add" button to place it in the calendar of a particular holiday scheme (1):