Employee Leave Tracking System

[Rangarajan Parthasarathy]

We are trying to build Employee Leave Tracking System with APPROVAL Workflow for JIRA Cloud. Is there any tool that is available  in marketplace that is FREE? I could not search and find an appropriate one.

[Richard]

What if after the Manager has approved the Leave request, how would you do it if you want the approved request to then auto forward to the HR Manager?

[Yogesh Mude]

HI @Rangarajan Parthasarathy

I would say to track the employee leave on Jira there is no need to have a third paid/free plugin.

You can configure custom workflow with the different steps like open, pending approval, approved, on leave etc.

Once done you can create different custom fields like Approver, backup person etc and configure it on the screen.

While creating an issue for leave by the employee, it should show a custom screen with the different custom field like approver etc.. once provided the required information this issue will auto assign to the approver and approver should approve it.

Please let me know your thoughts on this.

[Mirek]

It depends on your requirements. I think you are easily able to build a simple Approval workflow with couple of custom fields and make from this a Leave request that people would use. You do not need to use any tools for that.

However if you want to make it more flexible or "fancy" solution with automatons etc. then it is more complicated. For server JIRA there is a plugin for that that cover many dependencies, show charts etc. - https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1216410/vacation-manager-for-jira