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When a Time Off Request is created, it makes Working Hours become Non-Working Hours. There appears to be no easy way to restore the Time Off Request's hours from Non-Working to Working in case of a change of plans. For example, consider the case of a Personal Time Off (PTO) day, or a Doctor's appointment scheduled for a Resource. The Resource's time was blocked by a Time Off Request. The Working Hours are now set to Non-Working Hours. Now consider if the Doctor's appointment or the PTO is rescheduled to another day. How can those Non-Working Hours be restored to Working Hours? Currently, the only way to do that is by editing the Working Hours on the Resource's profile to remove the Time Off entry. A better approach would be to manipulate the original Time Off Request record by re-Activating the record (it is Deactivated by default in order to be added to the Working Hours), changing the From and To dates, and Deactivating it again.

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Ideas Administrator

Boris, thank you for your feedback, it is a great idea! The current design of Time Off request has this limitation due to the way how time off requests are stored via Calendar rules. We will consider this request for the calendar improvement effort, more votes would definitely help prioritizing this ask. You definitely already know this, but for others on this thread, as a workaround, you could leverage a custom entity to track the Time-Off as a booking to block time and could be also easily cancelled.

 

Thanks,

Vinay Nalam,

PM, Microsoft.

Comments

B

Managing calender, time off etc is very important feature enhancements that are highly needed. Including color-indication and changing / moving / removing. I am browsing the roadmap ideas, but one more thing in calender management area is also possibility for scheduling to respect non-working hours, whether they are out of office or time off. If I can't find it I will submit it.

Category: Universal Resource Scheduling

B

I agree. this is HUGE!

Category: Universal Resource Scheduling