Learn how to request half a day or a half-day start and end of a longer absence in Vitextra My Absences: which absence types allow half days, how the two "midday" checkboxes work, how half days are counted in working days and balances, and how back-to-back half days avoid overlaps.
Step-by-step guide to requesting vacation, a personal day or another absence in the My Absences web part: choosing the type and dates, half days, a substitute and a comment, the checks before sending, and what happens after you submit the request.
How to use the Away today block of the Vitextra Team Absence Calendar to see who has an absence today, until when, and who covers them: which absences are listed, how substitutes are shown, private types and the empty state.
Configure the FallbackApprover setting in Vitextra Absence & Coverage so that absence requests of employees without a manager in Microsoft Entra ID are still routed to an approver. Covers the Settings list row, how the approver is chosen, what employees see and what to do when no approver is found.
Define which days of the week count as working days in Vitextra Absence & Coverage: add the WorkDays row to the Settings list, choose the weekday numbers, see how the setting changes the working-day count of requests and the shading of the Team Absence Calendar.
How to give each employee an individual yearly entitlement and carry-over days in Vitextra Absence & Coverage: the Balances list, how a row is matched to a person, type and year, how to find the TypeId, worked examples and what employees see on their balance cards.
How Vitextra Absence & Coverage counts the working days of an absence request: the working week, public holidays, half days, worked examples with dates, periods that cannot be submitted, and why changed settings do not recalculate requests that were already sent.
How private absence types work in Vitextra Absence & Coverage: who sees the real type and the number of days, where the grey "Away" label replaces them in the Team Absence Calendar and in the CSV export, which types are private by default, how to change the setting and what the privacy rule does not protect.
A tour of the Vitextra Team Absence Calendar web part for SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams: the Away today block, the toolbar, the Timeline and Month views, period navigation and what the calendar includes.
A reference to substitutions in Vitextra Absence & Coverage: what a substitution is, the two kinds (temporary and handover of duties), the statuses and phases, who creates, accepts and cancels a substitution, how it relates to absence requests, and where substitutions are shown.
Overview of Vitextra Absence & Coverage for SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams: the three web parts (My Absences, Team Absence Calendar, Substitutions), who uses what, where the data is stored, requirements and what is not included in this version.
How Vitextra My Absences chooses the approver of a time-off request: the manager from Microsoft Entra ID, the fallback approver, types that need no approval and self-approval. Includes a table of examples, what the employee sees and what happens when no approver can be found.