Improvements:

• Updated HR Management views with better responsiveness and functionality

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issue with invalid dates on specific custom date format in Jira
• Fixed problem when changing type of vacation period in vacation types

Improvements:

• Updated HR Management views with better responsiveness and functionality

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issue with invalid dates on specific custom date format in Jira
• Fixed problem when changing type of vacation period in vacation types

New features:

• Hide unused vacation types - enabling this option will hide vacation types on create issue screen, if user don't have assigned vacation days for that type
• Display user absence warning on holidays - you can enable upcoming holidays warning (just like upcoming vacations warning)
• Interval in minutes picker - allows to configure step in minutes picker from 1 to 30 minutes

Improvements:

• New special variables in auto-summary: available time, used time, carryover time
• New filters in Manage Vacation Definitions - teams, holiday scheme, workweek scheme
• Ability to hide users without available days in Manage Vacation Definitions
• Minor UI/UX improvements

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issue with "@" sign in username
• Fixed issue with carry-over days in vacation type without carry-over days
• Minor bug fixes

New features:

• Hide unused vacation types - enabling this option will hide vacation types on create issue screen, if user don't have assigned vacation days for that type
• Display user absence warning on holidays - you can enable upcoming holidays warning (just like upcoming vacations warning)
• Interval in minutes picker - allows to configure step in minutes picker from 1 to 30 minutes

Improvements:

• New special variables in auto-summary: available time, used time, carryover time
• New filters in Manage Vacation Definitions - teams, holiday scheme, workweek scheme
• Ability to hide users without available days in Manage Vacation Definitions
• Minor UI/UX improvements

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issue with "@" sign in username
• Fixed issue with carry-over days in vacation type without carry-over days
• Minor bug fixes

We have prepared an update to enable full Jira 8.12.x compatibility for Vacation Manager.

We have prepared an update to enable full Jira 8.12.x compatibility for Vacation Manager.

New features:

• Automatically assigned vacation days (default values) per vacation type for new team members
• Option to enable displaying of upcoming holidays in user pickers

Improvements:

• Support for multi user pickers in upcoming vacation warning
• Ability to enable the display of the upcoming vacation warning in user pickers for not logged users (for open to public Jira)
• Added ability to set team user pickers in user picker set post function
• Minor UI/UX improvements

Bug Fixes:

• Rendering of vacation document details panel for not logged users
• Time Period custom field configuration panel
• Searcher for team user picker custom fields
• Integrity check tasks order
• Minor bug fixes

(Note: We are working on Jira 8.12 Compatibility, as there are some breaking changes)

New features:

• Automatically assigned vacation days (default values) per vacation type for new team members
• Option to enable displaying of upcoming holidays in user pickers

Improvements:

• Support for multi user pickers in upcoming vacation warning
• Ability to enable the display of the upcoming vacation warning in user pickers for not logged users (for open to public Jira)
• Added ability to set team user pickers in user picker set post function
• Minor UI/UX improvements

Bug Fixes:

• Rendering of vacation document details panel for not logged users
• Time Period custom field configuration panel
• Searcher for team user picker custom fields
• Integrity check tasks order
• Minor bug fixes

(Note: We are working on Jira 8.12 Compatibility, as there are some breaking changes)

Improvements:

• Added link and number with users assigned to default holiday scheme

Bug fixes:

• Unable to edit date in Vacation details
• Other minor bug fixes

Improvements:

• Added link and number with users assigned to default holiday scheme

Bug fixes:

• Unable to edit date in Vacation details
• Other 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:

• 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