With leave blackouts and warnings, you define dates or periods during which employees can’t take leave or during which a warning appears. For example, if Sales should attend a business event together next year, you can set up a blackout period in advance to ensure that employees in Sales cannot request leave during that time.
Warning
With a warning, the employee sees a warning message when entering a leave request and can then decide whether to submit the request anyway.
Leave blackout
If a new leave request conflicts with a blackout, an employee user receives an error message and cannot save the request. Admins receive a warning and can override the blackout if they want. You can also decide for each blackout whether managers may override it.
Options
You can limit blackouts and warnings to specific employees, departments, or locations. You can create blackouts and warnings that recur annually, and you can decide whether to allow special leave to be entered despite blackouts.
Edit leave blackouts and warnings
To view or edit blackouts and warnings, sign in to Timebutler as an admin and click “Settings” at the bottom left, then click “Leave blackouts” below it.
Displaying leave blackouts
Blackout and warning periods do not appear in the calendar yet. However, if an employee submits a leave request that falls within a blackout or warning, they receive the corresponding error/warning message.
In addition, every user can view their blackouts. They sign in to their Timebutler account and click “Settings” at the bottom left, then click “Leave blackouts” below it.
Screenshot: Example leave blackout
