Properties and options of vacation days

Section Basis

Element

Description

Number

Unique number of the vacation day

Code

Code of the vacation day

Name

Name of the vacation day

Validity from

Time period in which calendar days can be allocated to the vacation day

Use the button to display a calendar in which you can mark the beginning or the end of the time period.

Note

The time period can also lie outside of the calendar period.

Section Calendar days

Element

Description

Calendar

Section where you can allocate relevant calendar days to the vacation day.

You can select calendar days by clicking the desired date in the calendar.

  • Selected calendar days are highlighted in green.
  • Weekdays and Sundays that have not been selected are white, Saturdays that have not been selected are highlighted in gray.
  • Days outside of the valid time period are red and cannot be selected.

Note

If you click a calendar day which is selected already, the allocation of the calendar day will be canceled.

Tip

You can also select calendar days using additional options, which you open via the Expand button (Additional options).

Expand/Reduce

Use the Expand button to display additional options for the selection of calendar days (Additional options). Use the Reduce button to hide the additional options.

Additional options

Use the additional options to select calendar days that meet specific requirements. You can add or remove the selected calendar days from the calendar.

There are three kinds of rules:

  • Time period (all days within a certain period)
  • Weekdays (certain weekdays)
  • Vacation days (use existing vacation day calendar)

Buttons in the lower right section

Element

Description

Apply

Use the button to display the days selected according to the set options as days which shall be added to the selection as relevant calendar days. These days are highlighted in light green.

Note

The display is just a preview. The displayed days will only be allocated to the vacation day as relevant calendar days if you click the Confirm selection button.

Delete

Use the button to display the days selected according to the set options as days which shall be removed from the selection as relevant calendar days. These days are highlighted in light red.

Note

The display is just a preview. The displayed days will only be removed from the selection of relevant calendar days if you click the Confirm selection button.

Confirm selection

The selection of calendar days set via the Apply or Delete buttons is applied, i.e. the calendar days are added to or removed from the previous selection of relevant calendar days.

Section

Description

Time period

Validity from

Time period within the calendar period for which calendar days are selected

Use the button to display a calendar in which you can mark the beginning or the end of the time period.

Weekdays

Mon-Sun

Select the weekdays which shall be taken into account for the selection.

Uncheck all/check all

Use the buttons to select all weekdays simultaneously or to switch off the selection of all weekdays.

Each < n >. occurrence

Use the option to specify the recurrence pattern with which the selected weekdays will be used for the selection.

Example

If you select the weekdays Tuesday and Thursday and specify each 3rd occurrence, Tuesdays and Thursdays will be selected every three weeks within the desired time period.

Week

Use the option to determine specific weeks per month, whose selected weekdays will be used for the selection.

1 corresponds to the first week of the month, 2 to the second week and so on.

L always means the last week of the month, whether the month has four or five weeks.

Example

If the weekdays Monday and Tuesday and week 1 and 2 have been selected, all Mondays and Tuesdays of the first two weeks of the month will be selected within the desired time period.

Note

If the month starts with a Thursday, the selection starts with the Monday and Tuesday of the second week.

Vacation days

Use

If the option has been selected, the same selection of calendar days will be used as for an existing vacation day.

Use the drop-down list, to select the vacation day that shall be used as selection criterion.

On vacation days

If the option has been selected, the selection of calendar days is exactly the same as the one for the set vacation day.

Except vacation days

If the option has been selected, the selection of calendar days corresponds to the days which are not selected for the set vacation day (complement).