Vacation Days (and Holidays)

It would be great to be able for each person to list vacation days in their own personal calendars. Then, their work items would flow around the days they’re gone.

It would also be good to define global holidays, and other “non-productive” days (for instance, regularly scheduled office meetings).

Absolutely. We’re going to have to tackle vacations and custom work schedules sometime soon. I’ll make sure we keep your suggestion in mind.

Any progress, or estimate on when this might be ready? There are a couple of us who travel a bit and we are having a hard time making that work. We’ve done the “insert into task list at about the right time” thing, but it would really be better to schedule meetings, travel, holidays, etc.

We just shipped a minor update to the scheduling engine that should make your events work better.

Our recommended technique is still to create your events as high priority task in a container a the top of the list like this:

• Events / Out of Office
  • Vacation, Charles, 5 days – 5 days, Delay Until 6/1/08
  • Conference, Bob, 3 days – 3 days, Delay Until 7/5/08

If you do this, other work should flow around it. We have plans on the drawing board for a specific type of task for events that will make this easier but I do not have a release date for that yet.

Great! We’ll try it out!