Who's Out Widget

What is the Who's Out widget?

Purpose: To help you understand what information you can see in the Who's Out widget and show you where to find the Who's Out calendar. 

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Who's Out

The Who's Out widget shows which employees will be out of the office during the next seven days, the rest of the month, and the following month. Additional months can load on a month-to-month basis by clicking Load more Who's Out until there are no future time off requests to load. The following features are available in the Who's Out widget:

  1. You can filter this information by My Circle (your peers, manager, and direct reports), Department, Division, Employment Status, Job Title, and Location.
  2. The profile picture and name of the employee who will be out will appear on the applicable date. If they are going to be out for more than one day (in one request), the date when they will be out until will also appear.
  3. Employees can click Full Calendar to see the Who's Out information in a calendar view. Additionally, a link to the iCal feed is available in the full calendar.

*A request will only show the amount of time if the request's start date and end date are the same. Additionally, the request must be for a lesser time than the default daily amount. For example, if your default daily amount is eight hours, then the request must be less than eight hours for the requested amount to show.

*You can customize your default daily hours under the action menu in Time Off in Settings.


Who's Out calendar

In the bottom left corner of the Who's Out widget, employees will find Full Calendar. When they click on this link, the time off information will display in a calendar format which includes:

  1. Different Viewing Options: By default, they will see all approved time off for the current month. they can choose to see the time off information in two-week or one-week increments by clicking the corresponding buttons. Clicking Today will return them to the current date in whichever interval they have chosen.
  2. Time Frame: They can easily view past, current, and future approved time off requests by changing the calendar's time frame.
  3. Filter: The Who's Out widget displays time off information for everybody in your company. By viewing the full calendar, employees can filter the results by clicking All Employees. Employees can quickly filter the calendar by Department, Location, Division, or My Circle (includes peers, managers, and direct reports). Additionally, you can create a custom filter to filter by the standard filters. If an employee chooses to filter the calendar, the same filters will apply to the widget and iCalendar feed.
  4. Action Menu: Employees can determine what they would like to show in the calendar: Holidays, Birthdays,* Anniversaries,* or Weekends. Additionally, the iCal link allows them to set up a feed that links to an outside calendar like the link within the widget.
  5. Employee name: An employee's name will show up on the date(s) that they will be out of the office. When multiple employees are out of the office at once, they will list individually on the calendar.
  6. Approve Request: If an employee is an approver for a time off request, it will show in gray on the calendar. They can then hover over it and take action directly from the calendar view. Only future time off requests are approvable in the calendar.
  7. Legend: The legend always shows at the bottom of the calendar, but access to see other employees' time off request types gets enabled according to time off category settings. When creating a time off category, you can determine if you would or would not like to show the time off category in the calendar. If you select to show it in the calendar, you can share it with everyone or only users within specific access levels. Please note that if an employee approves a request through the workflow, they will still not see it in the calendar unless they have access granted to view the time off category and the employee in Access Levels settings, or you have shared the time off category in the calendar through Time Off settings.

The color associated with an employee's name will resemble the time off category type they are taking. 

*Birthdays and anniversaries will only show in the calendar if an employee has access granted through access level settings.