Question

Hi,

Again, Thanks for TWiki !

In my company, we would like to start using TWiki to keep track of employee vacations. We would like to create a page where each person could enter theur own vacations easily, and then we can all come to one place to see who is on, or going to be on vacation. The page should be roughly 2 to 3 month horizon, and ideally company holidays reflected.

Anybody out there already done that ?

Recommendations/ suggestions on how to implement that ?

Thanks,

Environment

TWiki version:	TWikiRelease02Sep2004
TWiki plugins:	DefaultPlugin, EmptyPlugin, InterwikiPlugin
Server OS:	Tao Linux 1.0
Web server:	Apache
Perl version:
Client OS:	any
Web Browser:	any
Categories:	Forms

-- GillesEricDescamps - 10 Mar 2005

Answer

Use the CalendarPlugin. Each person or each team has a topic with events (vacation dates). Define also one topic with corporate vacation schedule. One central page %INCLUDE{}% those pages and lists three monthly calendars (current month, next, the one after)

Example event:

• 11 Mar 2005 - 15 Mar 2005 - Jane: Vacation

-- PeterThoeny - 11 Mar 2005

Thanks,

CalendarPlugin is perfect once I realized I was looking for a calendar, not a vacation tracker (I did search, but searched on "vacation" ) In fact, we ended up renaming "vacation" to the more correct "OutofOffice". Don't care why the person is out. Just want to know if Jane is out today or not. We put everything in a single page:

---+ Out of Office Calendar
%CALENDAR{showweekdayheaders="1" }% 

%CALENDAR{showweekdayheaders="1" month="+1"}%

%CALENDAR{showweekdayheaders="1" month="+2"}%

---++ Record your Out of Office below
   * 28 Mar 2005 - 01 Apr 2005 - %MAINWEB%.Jane
   * 01 Jul 2005 - 17 Jul 2005 - %MAINWEB%.GillesEricDescamps

Company Holidays:
   * 30 May 2005 - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day][Memorial]]
   * 04 Jul 2005 - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_%28US%29][Independence]]
   * 05 Sep 2005 - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day][Labor]]
   * 24 Nov 2005 - 25 Nov 2005 - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving][Thanksgiving]]
   * 26 Dec 2005 - 27 Dec 2005 - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas][Christmas]]

---+++ See Also
[[%TWIKIWEB%.TWikiUsers][Users List]] (slow to appear as lot of users), [[%TWIKIWEB%.CalendarPlugin#Event_Syntax][Syntax for events]]

-- GillesEricDescamps - 15 Mar 2005

Try also HolidayListPlugin. Uses the same syntax as the Calendar

-- PeterJones - 07 Jul 2005