Improvements:

• Ability to set half hours in Workweek Scheme
• Added upcoming vacations warning for multi user picker fields
• Improved timeline navigator in Personal Statistics
• Automatically removing used vacation days when issue was manually deleted

Bug fixes:

• Minor bug fixes

Improvements:

• Ability to set half hours in Workweek Scheme
• Added upcoming vacations warning for multi user picker fields
• Improved timeline navigator in Personal Statistics
• Automatically removing used vacation days when issue was manually deleted

Bug fixes:

• Minor bug fixes

Improvements:

• Timezone support - added settings in configuration and ability to add variable in hourly auto-summary
• Ability to hide inactive/anonymized users
• Ability to hide user picker warnings in selected Vacation types e.g. in Remote work vacation type
• Improved “Manage Vacation Definitions” and “Statistics by Vacation Type” tables

Bug fixes:

• Added "get holiday scheme for user" in REST API
• Fixed displaying statistics
• Fixed displaying users in "Manage Vacation Definitions"
• Minor bug fixes

Compatibility update

Improvements:

• Timezone support - added settings in configuration and ability to add variable in hourly auto-summary
• Ability to hide inactive/anonymized users
• Ability to hide user picker warnings in selected Vacation types e.g. in Remote work vacation type
• Improved “Manage Vacation Definitions” and “Statistics by Vacation Type” tables

Bug fixes:

• Added "get holiday scheme for user" in REST API
• Fixed displaying statistics
• Fixed displaying users in "Manage Vacation Definitions"
• Minor bug fixes

Compatibility update

Performance Improvements - we focused on optimizing the speed of pages displaying users and statistics. We were making small changes along the way, this release brings it all together - it should run smoothly even for large number of users. We also added some filtering options and minor UI/UX improvements

Bug fixes:

• Fixed used days calculation when vacation document ends on next year
• Fixed automatic adding of vacation days for recurring type without carry over days
• Fixed used days calculation on customized workflow
• Other minor bug fixes

Performance Improvements - we focused on optimizing the speed of pages displaying users and statistics. We were making small changes along the way, this release brings it all together - it should run smoothly even for large number of users. We also added some filtering options and minor UI/UX improvements

Bug fixes:

• Fixed used days calculation when vacation document ends on next year
• Fixed automatic adding of vacation days for recurring type without carry over days
• Fixed used days calculation on customized workflow
• Other minor bug fixes

Improvements:

• Ability to display Team names in gadget on Dashboard
• Link to documentation about variables available in "User vacation warning"

Bug fixes:

• Fixed errors after upgrade from v1.3.1 to v2.2.1 (if are still using older versions < v1.3.0 remember to follow upgrade guide first)
• Fixed displaying "second half of day" label in statistics
• Minor bug fixes

Improvements:

• Ability to display Team names in gadget on Dashboard
• Link to documentation about variables available in "User vacation warning"

Bug fixes:

• Fixed errors after upgrade from v1.3.1 to v2.2.1 (if are still using older versions < v1.3.0 remember to follow upgrade guide first)
• Fixed displaying "second half of day" label in statistics
• Minor bug fixes

Improvements:

• Integrity checker in app configuration - Check and fix any integrity errors with missing vacation documents and users
• Ability to display Vacation Type in gadget on dashboard
• Per-team setting for allowing users to view approved documents of their teammates in team calendar - it will be easier to plan upcoming vacations
• Quick link to team statistics in team overview for HR team
• Improved message if users/groups cannot be added to team

Bug fixes:

• Issue with worklog booking all hours on first day in Tempo timesheets
• Invalid start date in team statistics on IE11
• Adding same user multiple times to same team
• Minor bug fixes

Compatibility updates with latest Jira 8.4.x

Improvements:

• Integrity checker in app configuration - Check and fix any integrity errors with missing vacation documents and users
• Ability to display Vacation Type in gadget on dashboard
• Per-team setting for allowing users to view approved documents of their teammates in team calendar - it will be easier to plan upcoming vacations
• Quick link to team statistics in team overview for HR team
• Improved message if users/groups cannot be added to team

Bug fixes:

• Issue with worklog booking all hours on first day in Tempo timesheets
• Invalid start date in team statistics on IE11
• Adding same user multiple times to same team
• Minor bug fixes

Compatibility updates with latest Jira 8.4.x

New Features

• Data Center compatibility
• Added limit of displayed entries in Upcoming Vacations gadget

Bug fixing

• Fixed Team Statistics filtering by year
• Fixed upgrade task (verifying if process has been already triggered)

Improvements

• Improved overall performance

New Features

• Data Center compatibility
• Added limit of displayed entries in Upcoming Vacations gadget

Bug fixing

• Fixed Team Statistics filtering by year
• Fixed upgrade task (verifying if process has been already triggered)

Improvements

• Improved overall performance

New Features

• Gadgets - you can display your teammates leaves in gadget showing current and upcoming leaves!
• Team statistics - easily plan your holidays with team leaves overview in calendar view
• Worklog support - allows you to log time from approved documents to worklog
• Customization of on leave warning messages - configure it your way

Bug fixing

• Fixed issues with "on leave" warning
• Fixed issues with access to user details from HR management
• Fixed days without vacation check on MySQL

Improvements

• More details in vacation document - from the Supervisor perspective it is important to see all relevant information - now you can see if there are any days off in period selected by user etc.
• Import Holidays - easily create new calendars with days off imported from .ics file
• Customization of statuses used in JQL for "Requests to approve"
• Audit Log - we have added more events to audit log
• API 1.1 - with new features comes updated API
• Performance improvements

Compatibility with Jira 8

• Fix for miscalculation of carry over days was introduced along with minor bug-fixes.

Minor bug fixes:

• Fixed bug with available time for new recurring periods

Improvements:

• Stability improvements for personal statistics after upgrade
• Displaying pie chart on personal statistics fix
• Pie chart tweaks (missing reserved half-days)

Improvements:

• Past vacation periods handling
• Personal statistics improvements
• Vacation calculation and validation bug-fixes

New features:

• REST API for Vacation Manager - manage Your Vacation Manager data with ease and integrate with 3rd party tools seamlessly!

Improvements:

• "What's New" section - here you can learn about new features with direct links to documentation

• Added better validation for dates provided as an input from user to check if year range is correct.

Fixed issues:

• Users duplication in supervisor picker
• Team management pages access

• Fixed vacation days calculation when period ends in next year
• Fixed minor issues with workweek schemes

• Update tasks improvements (when upgrading from old version)
• Fixed custom fields handling

• Half-day leaves - major product enhancement (see document for further reading - half-day leaves documentation)
• Hourly leaves (see hourly leaves documentation)
• Flexible workweek schemes
• Enhanced visualizations
• Minor bug-fixes

This minor update does not require any manual update operations.

Bug fixing:

• Issues with filtering results in statistics view
• Editing current period entitled days
• Fixed initial setup bug with statuses already used in Jira
• Missing navigation for supervisors with username including '@'
• Creating issues with empty summary (when Auto Summary is off)
• Issue with changing workweek schemes on 2nd results page
• Fixed corner case bugs with initial setup
• Minor bug fixes

Improvements:

• Inactive users will be marked with strikethrough line
• Minor UI/UX improvements

Announcement:

Vacation Manager 2.0 with half-day leaves and hourly absences will be available in Q3 of 2018, here you can see a preview: Ability to request hourly absences

We are releasing long time awaited feature: Teams!

New Features

• Teams - shift from managing users in big groups to teams with dedicated supervisors and teammates. Read about Vacation Manager Teams
• Audit Log - now Vaction Manager logs its events into Jira Audit Log

Bug Fixing:

• Issue with changed usernames (giving error 500 while editing vacation days)
• Permission scheme creation

UI/UX Improvements:

• Migration from custom field "Details" to standard Jira field "Description"
• New custom field type "Supervisor" - dedicated for teams
• Supervisors will see the number of awaiting Vacation Documents in the Navigation Bar
• Other small UI/UX improvements

If you are using version 1.2.0:

Please follow the upgrade instruction: "Upgrading to Vacation Manager 1.3.0"

Fixed issues:

• Vacation Manager navigation bar not showing on some nodes in Data Center,
• Upgrade on Postgress (Jira Data Center),
• Problems with IE browser.

New Features:

• Multiple holiday schemes - now HRs can create different holiday calendars and assign those to users,
• Multiple workweek schemes - you can set up working days of week for each scheme,
• New variables to use in Auto-summary text - ${holidayScheme} ${workweekScheme},
• New filtering options in Users table,
• Attachments support - e.g. sick note.

UI Improvements:

• Holidays displayed on user's timeline view,
• Minor improvements.

Please follow the upgrade instruction: "Upgrading to Vacation Manager 1.2.0"

Bug fixing:

• Issues with MSSQL database
• Removed permission for deleting issues (there is built in option)
• Minor bug fixing and UI improvements

New features:

• Holiday list - now you can view, edit, add all holidays using simple list
• Information about absence - you can turn on warning next to user who is not working today
• Statistics export to .CSV - for HR to generate reports
• Custom fields mapping
• Covering person - to show who can do task while someone else is on vacation

IMPORTANT:

If are using version 1.0.3 - please follow our detailed upgrade guide:

Upgrading to version 1.1.1