Manage Request Periods

Managers can define the periods when employees can submit schedule requests, and the corresponding periods to which the requests can apply.

For example: In a given year, a company may decide to allow employees to request vacation for the period from May 1 to August 31 (the request period), but that they must submit their vacation requests between January 1 and April 15 (the submission period). For vacations in the designated request period, the software prevents employees from submitting requests outside the submission period.

Add or edit employee request periods

  1. On the Home page, select the Main Menu , then select Maintenance > Employee visibility periods.
  2. Either:
    • Click Add Period.
    • Click a row in the table, then select Edit to edit that request period.
  3. Enter a Name for the period.
  4. Select a configured request type from the Request for menu.
  5. (Optional) Enter a Description of the request type.
  6. Employee Query — Select a set of employees who can submit this request type.
  7. (Optional) Suppress Event Notification — Click to prevent the system from sending notifications to the employee group after you create a request period.
  8. For both the Submission Period and the Request Period, do one of these:
    • Click the period or specify the start and end Date and specify the start and end Time using
    • Click Any Time to not limit the submission period.
  9. Click OK.
  10. Save your changes.

Delete employee request periods

  1. On the Home page, select the Main Menu , then select Maintenance > Employee visibility periods.
  2. Click  in the first column of the row.
  3. Click Yes to confirm.
  4. Save your changes.