The Holiday Template feature is a new addition to the Smart Time-off tool designed to help teams organize and remember their holidays.
🎯 Open the Smart Time off >> Settings >> Holiday Template tab to start using the holiday Template.
Initially, two default templates are available:
Ukrainian holidays.
An empty preset, which allows you to create custom holidays for the team
Creating a Holiday Template:
Click the ‘Create Holiday Template’.
Enter the Template name.
Select participants or user groups who will be associated with this Holiday Template.
Choose a default template or add a new holiday by clicking the ‘Add Holiday’ button.
Enter the Holiday name.
Select the date for the Holiday.
Click the ‘Save’ button to save the Holiday.
Click the ‘Save’ button to save the Holiday Template.
Now the Holiday Template was created!
video of creating template
Multiple holidays can be created within a single template.
Information about Holidays will be shown in the Calendar
screen
Users can choose to receive notifications about upcoming holidays either through Slack or via email.
How to enable the Holiday Notification about Slack and E-mail: LINK
Slack integration for the Holiday Template Slack Intagrattion page
Teams who use Slack have the ability to integrate Smart Time-off Notifications with the Slack Bot by the following steps:
Create your Slack App
Enable Incoming Webhooks
Create an Incoming Webhook
Copy the Webhook URL
Go to the Smart Time-off menu in the Manage Apps section
Select the Integration item in the left sidebar
Click the Add a Webhook button
Select the Webhook name, Approvers, and paste the Webhook URL
Click the Add button to finish
Now the notifications will be shown in the Slack channel
The bot can be deleted anytime:
