Create a special day

Special days are added to an organization's time off calendar to identify days where time off is not allowed, non-working holidays, and working holidays. Viewing special days Feature in WFM that allows administrators to assign time intervals in employee schedules with a special setting to indicate paid time off (such as holidays). on the calendar helps employees plan their time off requests and helps you manage these requests.

For special days created for Time Off Not Allowed, you can use a time off validation rule to check if a request avoids these days. In addition, you can create an auto processing rule to approve, waitlist, or deny requests that violate this validation rule.

After a special day has been created for an organization, you can copy it other organizations. The copy to organizations becomes the owner organization of the rule as if it had created it.

Before you begin

Determine how you want to add special days to the system:

If you want to add a few special days, use this procedure to create each one individually.
If you want to add all special days for a long period such as multiple months or a year, consider the import option.

Import special days

Procedure

Go to Organization Management Module in WFO that allows administrators to set up different hierarchies to manage users from a single, unified, Web interface.. Under Request Management, select Special Days.
Optional: In the View Year list, select another year.
In the left pane, click an organization.
Click Create Special Day.
To define the special day, do the following:
1. Type a descriptive name.
2. Select the type.
3. Choose a date range, and change the time if needed. For a single day, select the same day for both the From and To dates.
4. Optional: Apply this special day to sub-orgs (no override allowed).
5. Optional: Select a specific time off pool Group of employees in WFM to which time off is allocated..
Click Save.