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Leaves section of Employee Garrison is all about your leaves related data like your leave balance, leave summary & option to request leave/s.

• Click on leaves in the left navigation.

• Click on request leave option.

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On request leave pop up, enter the valid data in each field, go through the list below for more details of each field.

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• Request for: System auto selects logged in user’s name. This field is not editable.
• Leave type: Select a leave type from the drop-down list.
• From & to Select appropriates dates of your leave duration.
  • Once you select dates, the system shows current balance & projected balance of the selected leave type. 
  • If you are applying for leaves that goes beyond current balance, you are still allowed to apply for those leaves & the projected balance will be negative.
• All full days checkbox: Check if all leaves are full day leaves.
  
  • If this option is unchecked, the system will ask you to mention half day leaves and full day leave in the leave duration.
  • You also need to select whether you are taking half day leave in first half or second half.

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• Approver: Approver’s name is auto selected by the system, it selects your manager's name as approver by default.
  • If no manager is assigned to the user(applicant) then any random admin/super admin will be selected by default as an approver.
• Reason: Mention the reason for taking leave/s. You can make use of different text formatting options and at (@) mentions to tag other users. 

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• Visibility: Leave request can be made visible to the selected team or users. This option will help users when they want to share their planned leaves with team/s or specific users so that any dependency is taken care of before they leave.

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Once done with adding appropriate information, click on submit. The approver receives an email notification about your leave application. The approver can reject, cancel or approve the leave application & applicant receives relevant email notification accordingly.

Create past dated leave request

If needed, you can create a past dated leave request. Clicking on leave request option would give you the same pop-up (as explained above). Add relevant data to all attributes. Its just that you add some past dates and record leaves you have already taken.

Once done with adding appropriate information, click on submit. The system asks for confirmation as you are creating a request for past date.

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Once confirmed, approver is informed via email but no approval will be required from approver in such case. Added leaves are automatically marked as availed. Non-admin users can add past dated leaves only for themselves, whereas admin/super admin can create such leaves for any Employee Garrison user.

Who can create a leave request for whom?

Leave request option is available for all admins and non-admin users in leaves section. However, there are a few default permissions set in the system.