Vacation Planning / Resource?

Question

Hi,

I'm wondering if it is possible to plan vacations per resource in Big Picture (non-enterprise)?

I've tried everything and I can't seem to get this working but maybe I'm just missing something. If I set a week as non working days under BigPicture > Administration > Holiday Plan it applies to all users that are assigned to the Holiday Plan, but I would like that week to only apply to one of the users because its rare that all devs/qa would take vacations at the same time 
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I checked the documentation and noticed that there was a comment asking for this feature in 2015 and SoftwarePlant was working on it but I'm not sure if this was ever released?

Thanks for the help!

Tudor

Prasad Andrews · Answer

Hi @Tudor Hofnar @Christian Munteanu @JackieB @Marek Lewandowski ,

Am I looking for the same that what Ben is asked, Could you please someone responds to the same.

Regards,

Andrews

unknown · Answer

Hi all

This is the way I work with this for the moment:

Holiday plans are only used for common holidays!

I created 3 different holiday plans  (Brussels, Bangalore, Kolkota) with their respective holidays

the individual holiday of a teammember I manage in the workload plan:

I am assigned to a workloadplan having 8h a day from monday till friday

that workload plan is active untill infinity

If I want to take holiday on 15th of april , I go to my workload plan (via Administration/Resource Manager) and in that workload plan I select "Unavailability" with a startdate = 15/04 , click on "Assign" and the unavailability will be infinite (!)

to make it clear I will be back on the 16th of april, I have to select my workloadplan again with a startdate of 16/04 (untill infinity)

it is a bit complex, but once you are used too it works just fine (for now)

I had the same remark in the beginning, and there is an idea to make the wokload plan treatable as a calendar.

But don't know if that is on the backlog

hope this answer can help you

all the best

Ben

Christian Munteanu · Answer

As a smaller fix:

You can create a JIRA Task called Holiday and fix it in there. Move it in a column called like that and assign it a red colour.

Also you can create JIRA Tasks for each persons free days. So they appear blocked in the overall view and in the Ressources views.

This should not affect the workload since it will block double bookings. And if there is no "time worked" entered, the overall booked time should not be affected either.