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Introduction

When creating a new vacation request, all users can select an Approver (usually a team manager or team lead):

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By default, the Teamployees plugin does NOTcreate generate any notifications about for newly created vacations. All requests are displayed on vacation requests. If an Approver is selected when creating a vacation request, the request will appear in the Approval List tab, where they can be “approved” or “declined” by the approver specified when creating the vacation requestthe designated approver can either approve or decline it:

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However, in the Event Notifications section of the settings, you can specify a project in which the Teamployees plugin will create special Jira issues when a vacation request requires approval.

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Changing the Jira issue status to "Event Approved" or "Event Declined" changes the vacation request status.

This way, the Teamployees plugin makes the vacation request approval process as native to Jira as possible. Assignee and Reporter will receive notifications about new issues, as well as changes in their status, in the usual way via email or in the Jira notification panel. In terms of functionality and capabilities, these are regular issue in a Jira project.

You can even set up get notified about new vacation requests by setting up an integration with Slack or Microsoft Teams.

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Clicking on the link will open a new tab in your browser, then confirm the changes by clicking on the Publish button:

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If you are using an blank "Company-managed business" empty Jira project as recommended, no migration is required, just click the Associate button to continue:

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Since If you want to use an existing Jira project configured for other that is set up for different purposes and a different workflow scheme, the current status of each issue needs to be changed so that it is compatible with the new workflows from the Teamployees plugin.

Match the new statuses Waiting for Event Approve, Event Approved, Event Declined with the existing statuses in your project, for example:

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Next, click the Associate button to continue.

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