absentify product changelog and release notes

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Improvements

• absentify now keeps the request dialog responsive when you set up a recurring absence.

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Preview before submitting

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Improvements

• absentify now replaces the previous selection when you update which leave types trigger email notifications, instead of leaving old types attached.
• absentify now sends each calendar invitation email only once, instead of sending a second copy when the calendar update cannot be completed after the first send.
• absentify now sends the right notification email to recipients you add when a leave request is approved automatically as soon as it is submitted.
• absentify now retries those notification emails after a delivery problem, so updates are less likely to be missed.
• absentify now sends approval reminder emails only to approvers who receive notifications by email, so approvers who use Microsoft Teams only no longer get extra reminder emails.
• absentify now sends fewer duplicate invitation or update emails when a recurring absence series has not actually changed.
• When an absence is removed from a calendar, absentify now uses the same event title the recipient originally received, not newer leave wording they may never have seen.
• When you remove an Outlook calendar entry for an absence that has already ended, absentify now leaves it off your calendar and your representative’s calendar instead of adding it back.
• absentify now keeps leave requests in your workspace responsive while calendar sync settings are updated.
• absentify now applies your own absence updates to shared calendars before large background catch-up syncs.
• absentify now completes Microsoft sign-in and account linking more reliably when several sign-in attempts happen at the same time.
• absentify now refreshes your session and processes invitation or activation links more reliably under heavy or overlapping use.
• absentify now lists the correct representatives in the right order in automatic Outlook out-of-office replies and displays names with special characters properly.
• absentify now updates automatic Outlook out-of-office replies when a leave request is approved or declined in Microsoft Teams.
• absentify now updates automatic Outlook out-of-office replies after a representative approval, when your representatives change, and when a leave type’s name or Outlook synchronization setting affects your reply template.
• absentify now makes the signup wizard easier to use on phones, with a clearer header, progress, and controls that stay within reach as you move through the steps.
• You can now pick date format, time format, week start, and fiscal year start more easily on small screens in the signup review step.
• You can now see the duration when you preview an absence on a leave type that does not reduce your balance.
• absentify now uses consistent spacing between labels, short descriptions, and inputs in organization and profile settings.
• absentify now lines up fields that show a help icon or a translation control with neighboring fields in multi-column layouts.
• absentify now credits each month of a gradual monthly allowance on that month’s last day, so a full calendar year includes all twelve months, including December in the first year of a rule, and totals stay correct when a rule starts, switches, or ends during the year.
• absentify now keeps each month of a gradual monthly allowance available from the first day of that month when the rule ends during the year, and still includes the last month when a user’s employment ends on the last day of the year.
• absentify now describes more clearly in allowance rule summaries in organization settings when gradual monthly credits are added.

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Allowance management in Power Automate

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Out-of-office messages in Power Automate

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Improvements

• absentify now sends calendar invitation emails again when absences are synced to your calendar by email or when Outlook sync falls back to email invitations.
• Group calendar sync settings now explain how to take over a connection when no administrator in your workspace still holds the Microsoft permission.
• When the administrator who connected a group calendar is removed, absentify now pauses those syncs and notifies other administrators to reconnect them.
• absentify now sends absences for users on personal Microsoft accounts as calendar invitations when Outlook cannot write to their calendar.
• absentify now sends calendar copies for representatives on recurring absences as invitations when Outlook sync for that copy fails.
• absentify now syncs absences to Outlook even when optional tracking labels cannot be applied, instead of leaving them blocked.
• absentify now leaves a group calendar sync running when another administrator has already taken it over, instead of pausing it and asking administrators to reconnect.
• absentify now leaves past absences on calendars when you remove a user from the workspace, instead of sending a burst of update or cancellation emails.
• absentify now skips repeated update emails to shared calendars that receive absences by email when the calendar is refreshed without any change to the absence itself.
• absentify now accepts users added through group sync in the API, so connected systems can work with them again.
• absentify now accepts users added through group sync in Power Automate, so your flows can work with them again.
• After an absence has ended, absentify now leaves the matching Outlook calendar entry unchanged, including copies on a representative’s calendar, so titles and other edits you made there stay as you left them.
• absentify now skips adding new Outlook entries for absences that have already ended when nothing was on the calendar for them before, including copies on a representative’s Outlook calendar.
• absentify now marks calendar invitation emails with “Updated:” or “Cancelled:” when an absence changes or is removed, and accepted invitations show the correct availability in Outlook.
• absentify now applies cancellations and changes to your calendar entries sooner, instead of waiting behind a long queue of new entries.
• When calendar sync is briefly paused for your mailbox, absentify now waits and retries without marking the sync as failed or using up retry attempts.
• absentify now updates and removes calendar entries even when many new absences are added to the same calendar at once.
• absentify now puts approved and pending absences back on your calendar after a recent update incorrectly removed them.
• absentify now uses clearer names for leave request triggers and several existing Power Automate actions.
• You can now choose a language on some Power Automate actions so names come back translated when available.
• Existing Power Automate actions now accept more optional inputs and return more details in their results.
• absentify now labels the older “Update a member’s allowance” action as deprecated; it still works, but new flows should use the allowance management actions instead.
• absentify now shows in your allowance details when a yearly allowance tied to your hire date was last renewed or when it will renew next.
• absentify now states in the rule preview that an upfront yearly allowance on the hire-date anniversary is available in full on each hire-date anniversary, instead of sounding like the calendar year start.
• absentify now updates a scheduled future assignment when you change a user’s allowance rule on a date inside that period, instead of changing only the rule that is active today.
• absentify now sets a default start date that better follows your existing allowance timeline when you add or change a rule, including when a future assignment without an end date is already planned.
• You can now choose manual allowance management when you change a user’s allowance rule even if they already have a manual period, while choosing the same manual period for the same dates remains blocked.
• absentify now sends calendar invitations to the current email address when a cancellation was already sent to an old address, including copies for representatives.
• absentify now sends calendar invitations only for absences that still have no calendar entry, including when the event is already in Outlook instead of arriving by email.
• absentify now sends first calendar invitations without sending cancellation emails to outdated representative mailboxes.
• absentify now restores all calendar invitations for a multi-day recurring absence together, instead of sending them one day at a time.

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Full months only for partial years

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Work location in Teams and Outlook

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Confirm calendar email impact

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Access restrictions for unpaid invoices

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Improvements

• absentify now keeps absences on your calendar and continues updating them when you change dates, until the request is canceled or no longer applies, instead of removing them when unrelated account or leave type settings change.
• absentify now updates recurring absences on your calendar as a series, so canceling or changing one day no longer removes or disturbs other approved days in the same pattern.
• absentify now applies the same calendar rules to copies for representatives and shared mailboxes, so existing entries update when the absence changes and are removed only when the request warrants it.
• absentify now matches older calendar invitations to the right events, so you get fewer duplicate invitations and cancellations sent to the wrong mailbox.
• absentify now updates calendars in the background without sending large bursts of unexpected invitation or update emails.
• absentify now includes current and upcoming absences when you add a shared calendar that delivers absences by email, instead of very old history.
• You can now see how many absences and cancellation emails may be affected before you confirm removing a shared calendar that delivers absences by email.
• absentify now keeps the overdue payment notice and access restriction in place when a cancellation is scheduled, instead of lifting them while payment is still overdue.
• absentify now shows the payment reminder with whichever restriction date comes first, from an overdue subscription or unpaid invoices.
• absentify now keeps the payment reminder on screen for administrators with billing access until the outstanding amount is settled.
• absentify now refers to overdue invoices instead of a subscription payment when unpaid invoices block access, for administrators and other users.
• absentify now shows clear success, pending, declined, and error messages when you grant Microsoft permissions in organization settings.
• absentify now waits and rechecks after you approve a Microsoft permission until it appears, and you can check again yourself.
• absentify now explains what happened when Microsoft consent was cancelled, declined, given in the wrong organization, or started from an expired link.
• You can now copy or email a consent link so a Microsoft 365 administrator can approve the permission without signing in as you.
• absentify now warns you if a Microsoft permission was removed in Microsoft 365, and offers a simple way to grant it again.
• absentify now shows its logo more clearly on light backgrounds in emails.
• absentify now lists each workspace in the multiple-workspaces alert email in a clearer layout, shows member counts, and names up to three workspace admins, with a note when more exist.
• absentify now makes footer text and links in branded emails easier to read on tinted backgrounds.
• You can now grant the work location permission when you open it from Microsoft Teams.
• absentify now shows the current Microsoft permission status when you open Microsoft settings, instead of outdated information.
• When you turn on a Microsoft integration, absentify now checks your current Microsoft permissions first and guides you to grant them again if they were removed, instead of showing the feature as on.
• absentify now indicates when a Microsoft integration has lost permission while it was still marked as on.
• absentify now syncs leave entries to your calendar more reliably when Microsoft calendar services are slow, unavailable, or temporarily limiting requests.
• absentify now sends calendar update emails only when an absence itself changes, not when related calendar copies are recalculated in the background.
• When you edit a leave type, locked day- or hour-based duration options now show a short reason in the list, and choosing one opens fuller guidance with the same next steps as before, such as creating a copy or reviewing your plan.
• absentify now explains that switching a leave type between day-based and hour-based units is blocked only while it has requests that are not canceled or declined, including past ones, and that you may be able to switch once those requests are cleared and your allowance and plan allow it.
• absentify now shows a clear waiting message while it checks whether a leave type is already in use, instead of a generic lock with no context.
• absentify now syncs absence updates to your calendar more smoothly when several changes are processed for the same mailbox.

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Improvements

• The documentation assistant now searches all help content, including administrator settings, no matter which role you have.
• When you ask about something only an administrator or manager can do, the documentation assistant now explains who handles it and where they would find the setting in absentify, instead of refusing to answer.
• The documentation assistant now reviews more help pages when preparing an answer, so replies are more complete and accurate.
• The documentation assistant in Microsoft Teams now searches the same amount of documentation as when you use it inside absentify, so answers can be more complete.
• absentify now explains clearly when you sign in with a personal Microsoft account instead of your work account, or when your absentify account is linked to a personal Microsoft account, so you know what to do next.
• You can now sign in with Microsoft in workspaces that require Microsoft sign-in, even if you previously signed in with an email link.
• The mobile overview now has a compact bar for filters, who is absent today, and creating requests, so it is easier to use.
• Filters on mobile now open in a bottom panel that is easier to reach and dismiss.
• Managers and administrators on mobile can now choose between a personal request and a group request from a clear bottom menu.
• absentify now keeps your own time off entries on the Microsoft Teams schedule when it stops managing them.
• absentify now tells you to reconnect a Teams team in settings if the team linked for Shifts sync no longer exists.
• absentify now still updates the other Teams when leave syncs to several Teams and one team has a problem.
• absentify now continues very large Shifts syncs in batches instead of stopping partway through.
• absentify now always shows the Outlook synchronization option when you set up out-of-office messages for a leave type, and explains that you need to save the template first if none is saved yet.
• absentify now keeps a Shifts sync connection on “Waiting” until a sync has actually run for that team, so the status shows real progress instead of appearing finished too early.
• absentify now explains when Microsoft will not allow writes to a specific team during Shifts sync.
• When you remove a Shifts sync while Microsoft permission is missing, absentify now explains that absences already in Shifts will be removed once it can write to Shifts again.
• absentify now starts Shifts sync more reliably when a user signs in with Microsoft, when department membership changes, or when users are added through group sync.
• absentify now removes absences it wrote to Shifts more reliably when a user is removed or unlinked, or when a Shifts sync connection is deleted.
• absentify now keeps leave type names in Shifts aligned when a label was changed outside the settings page.
• absentify now adds approved absences to your personal calendar by email invitation when direct Outlook sync is unavailable, including for recurring absences.
• absentify now resumes calendar sync for absences that were stuck after an Outlook connection problem, without sending duplicate calendar invitations for entries that have not changed.
• absentify now removes a Shifts connection from your settings list right away, while it finishes cleaning up in the background.
• absentify now tells you to wait a few minutes and try again if you connect a team that is still being disconnected.
• absentify now keeps email calendar invitations on your personal calendar when Outlook cannot connect, instead of removing them on the next sync.
• The allowance card now labels what you can use right now as “Available today” instead of “Still available”.
• Upcoming accrual lines on the allowance card now describe future balances as what you will have, not what you have now.
• The allowance card now labels manually managed allowances as “manual” instead of showing a zero amount, including when a rule changes to or from manual.
• The upcoming accrual line on the allowance card now uses an arrow icon so the change is easier to scan.
• absentify now shows in timeline allowance badges how much leave you can book today, with a clearer label, instead of a total that may include days or hours you cannot use yet.
• absentify now shows email verification and overdue payment notices at the top of the app in a clearer, more consistent design that is easier to read.
• You can now dismiss the overdue payment notice for the rest of your browser session.
• absentify now shows leave entries on your Outlook calendar at the correct local time, even when your profile uses a Microsoft timezone name.
• absentify now keeps calendar sync to Outlook more reliable when your mailbox or Outlook is temporarily unavailable.
• absentify now shows leave events at the correct time in other synced calendars as well, including when your profile timezone uses a Windows region name.
• absentify now retries calendar sync more sensibly after temporary Outlook issues instead of retrying the same mailbox on a short loop.
• absentify now updates recurring absences that appear as separate calendar entries for each day when something changes, without removing the entries already on your calendar.
• absentify now keeps calendar entries for past absences when a user is archived or deactivated, or when calendar sync is turned off after the absence has ended.

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Calendar sync warnings on leave requests

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Custom department order

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Improvements

• absentify now explains on the Microsoft Teams Shifts sync form how the sync works, what each choice means, and what happens after you save.
• You can now map leave types more clearly to how they appear in Shifts, with clearer labels and optional name and description fields for the connection.
• absentify now keeps Outlook and iCal calendar sync running through interruptions until updates succeed or a lasting problem is found.
• absentify now shows a clear reconnect prompt in settings when a calendar integration has lost permission, and saving the integration can resume sync once access is restored.
• absentify now checks group calendars for edit access before sync resumes, so missing permissions are caught earlier instead of failing silently.
• When a user’s Microsoft sign-in changes, absentify now removes old absence entries from the previous calendar before creating new ones in the current one.
• absentify now keeps department filters on the timeline and in the user list in alphabetical order, so they are easier to scan.
• absentify now follows your configured leave type order in the leave type breakdown on your allowance card and in statistics, instead of sorting by amount used.
• You can now reorder leave types more reliably, including with the keyboard.
• absentify now keeps your current selection in department and leave type pickers when the available options change.
• absentify now keeps calendar PDF headings with their sections and no longer splits summary cards, table rows, or legends across pages.
• absentify now gives fuller, more accurate answers in the documentation assistant by reading complete help articles instead of short excerpts.
• absentify now includes direct links to the relevant help articles in documentation assistant answers.
• absentify now explains in documentation assistant answers which role, plan, or setting applies to your situation.
• absentify now replies in the documentation assistant in the language you used to ask your question.
• When the documentation assistant cannot find an answer, absentify now shows clearer messages that are easier to follow.
• When you ask the documentation assistant about your own absence data and that access is not enabled, absentify now explains what is needed in simpler terms.
• You can now ask the documentation assistant about your organization’s subscription plan and what it includes.
• The documentation assistant now lists only the help pages that actually support its answer, instead of every page it looked at.
• When the documentation assistant cannot look up your personal absence data, administrators now get guidance to enable that capability, while other users are asked to contact their admin.
• If documentation search is temporarily unavailable, absentify now asks you to try again shortly instead of saying the topic is not covered.
• The documentation assistant now identifies workspaces on the older Business plan correctly when you ask about your subscription.
• The documentation assistant now keeps short follow-up messages in the same language as the rest of the conversation.
• When the documentation assistant cannot produce a reply, you now see a friendly message in your language instead of a generic failure notice.

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Shifts sync descriptions

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Improvements

• You can now add or edit a Microsoft Shifts sync setting on its own settings page, with a clear way back to the sync list.
• absentify now highlights missing required fields on the Shifts sync form instead of showing separate messages.
• absentify now shows helpful guidance on the Shifts sync add and edit pages when your plan does not include Shifts sync, when Microsoft permissions are needed, or when Shifts is not yet enabled for the selected team.
• absentify now phrases Shifts sync status counts more naturally when only one item needs your attention.
• absentify now shows clearer warnings when a leave type name could not be saved to Shifts.
• When you archive a user, absentify now signs them out and no longer connects Microsoft sign-in to that account.
• absentify now keeps email verification and payment notices fixed at the bottom of the screen so they no longer push the page header down.
• absentify now presents calendar PDFs with a clearer header, an improved layout, and your company logo and brand colors.
• absentify now groups allowance summaries in calendar PDFs into separate “Deductible leave” and “Non-deductible leave” sections, each with a short explanation of what the numbers mean.
• absentify now notes on calendar PDFs that carry-forward is already included in the allowance total.
• absentify now shows whether allowance amounts in calendar PDFs are counted in days or hours.
• absentify now always shows the date number on calendar days in PDFs, with clearer colors and small icons for holidays, birthdays, work anniversaries, and leave types.
• absentify now makes days that combine leave with a public holiday, birthday, or work anniversary easier to read at a glance in calendar PDFs.
• absentify now shows request statuses in the calendar PDF “Absence details” table as color-coded labels instead of plain text.
• absentify now lists only the legend categories that actually appear in your exported date range.
• absentify now uses more consistent spacing and alignment across portrait and landscape calendar PDF exports.

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Edit Shifts sync settings

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Improvements

• absentify now updates automatic Outlook out-of-office replies sooner when public holidays on a calendar are added, changed, or removed.
• If your account signs in with an email code instead of Microsoft, absentify now explains on the sign-in screen what to do next and takes you to your profile after you sign in so you can connect your Microsoft account and use Microsoft sign-in next time.
• When Microsoft sign-in cannot connect your account because your organization has not verified your email domain in Microsoft 365, you now see a clear explanation to ask your admin to verify the domain or contact support, instead of a generic sign-in failure.
• When you delete an allowance rule that still has users assigned, those users now keep that rule until the next fiscal year starts, instead of being moved right away.
• When you delete an allowance rule, absentify now shows the date assigned users will move to the replacement rule you choose.
• When you delete an allowance rule, absentify now keeps assigned users on a consistent setup if other changes happen at the same time.
• You can now sign in with Microsoft in workspaces that allow both sign-in methods, even if you previously signed in with an email code; your account links automatically.
• absentify now explains what happens when you unlink or reconnect a Microsoft account in a workspace that supports both ways to sign in.
• absentify now shows your chosen light or dark appearance right away on sign-in and page loads, without briefly flashing the wrong theme first.
• In Microsoft Teams, absentify now opens in the matching light or dark appearance from the first moment.
• If you use your device’s theme setting, absentify now updates when you switch your system between light and dark mode.
• absentify now aligns the buttons on every step of the user import consistently.
• absentify now uses a wider user import dialog so you can review uploaded data more easily.
• You can now expand and collapse the user import error summary, so long error lists are easier to work through.
• absentify now counts the actual issues per row in the user import, instead of including extra hint text.
• absentify now truncates names and emails cleanly in the user import preview, and shows the full value when you hover.
• absentify now uses more consistent spacing between option labels, descriptions, and controls in leave type settings.
• absentify now saves a confirmed change to a user’s employment dates on the first confirmation.
• absentify now uses your organization’s fiscal period on allowance cards and details (for example, “Sep 2026 to Aug 2027”) instead of calendar-year wording, so balances and summaries are easier to understand when your fiscal year does not follow the calendar year.
• absentify now refers to “this period” rather than “this year” in allowance details, including when there is nothing to show yet.
• absentify now keeps Microsoft Shifts absences aligned when leave requests are updated, canceled, or previously failed to sync.
• absentify now resumes Microsoft Shifts sync automatically after connection or permission issues are resolved.
• You can now see the sync status for each connected team, including how many absences are up to date, still waiting, or need attention.
• You can now see when the last absence was sent to Shifts for a team.
• You can now open a problems list for absences that could not be added to Shifts, with plain guidance on what went wrong and how to fix it.
• You can now use “Sync now” to run synchronization for a team on demand.
• absentify now shows a clear warning when Shifts is not turned on for a team or when Microsoft permissions need to be renewed.

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Calendar PDF export by employee

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Microsoft 365 Copilot integration

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Shared and resource mailbox calendar sync

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Show absences as free on central calendars

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Improvements

• absentify now syncs public holidays and automatic out-of-office replies in Outlook more reliably when Microsoft sign-in needs to refresh or was briefly unavailable.
• You can now download a calendar PDF for a single employee right away, instead of waiting for a bulk export.
• absentify now shows which employees were included in the recent exports list, not just departments.
• absentify now keeps sign-in codes and email links valid for one hour instead of 15 minutes, giving you more time to complete login or registration.
• absentify now shows plan prices on the upgrade and change-plan screens that match your billing country and tax region, instead of an approximate currency conversion.
• absentify now loads billing details more reliably when you upgrade or update payment information, so existing customer records are reused correctly.
• You can now use the Teams app in shared and private channels, not only in standard team channels.
• absentify now keeps automatic Outlook out-of-office replies in place until you return after consecutive absences of different leave types, instead of ending them too soon or showing the wrong return date.
• absentify now shows the correct return date and time in automatic Outlook out-of-office replies for hour-based absences, including when they follow a vacation or another partial-day absence.
• absentify now shows clearer messages when Outlook calendar access or permissions are missing or incomplete.
• absentify now shows the selected Outlook calendar and mailbox address in the calendar sync list.
• You can now add an Outlook calendar by mailbox address even when the full list of available calendars cannot be loaded.
• absentify now updates and removes absence events on shared Outlook calendars more reliably.
• absentify now keeps the top navigation and side menus in place on large desktop screens while you scroll through Settings, Calendar, the timeline, and other key views.
• absentify now scrolls the content area back to the top when you switch between settings sections on desktop.
• When Microsoft sign-in fails in Microsoft Teams, you now see a clear explanation instead of being sent away with little or no guidance.
• absentify now keeps canceled and declined leave requests in history when you change a leave type between day-based and hour-based units, and only new requests use the updated unit.
• When you change a leave type between day-based and hour-based units, absentify now explains in settings that existing requests keep their original days or hours.
• absentify now shows the original days or hours for past requests in reports and exports after you change a leave type between day-based and hour-based units.
• absentify now uses the current holiday calendar of the user you create a leave request for, so the duration preview stays accurate after the calendar was changed.

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Connect AI assistants without Microsoft sign-in

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AI assistant for every user

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Find a colleague

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Improvements

• absentify now syncs public holidays to your Outlook calendar again within minutes after an administrator restores calendar permissions, instead of waiting until the next day.
• absentify now clears a previous sync error as soon as that public holiday syncs successfully.
• You can now click a menu item or the logo for the page you are already on to scroll back to the top, instead of seeing an error.
• absentify now sets up Microsoft Teams absence tabs more reliably when you add or configure a tab in a channel.
• absentify now shows a clear message when tab settings cannot be saved, instead of a save dialog that never finishes.
• absentify now explains clearly what went wrong and what to do next when a sign-in link has expired, was already used, or is not valid.
• When you decline permissions during Microsoft sign-in, you now see a dedicated message explaining how to try again or continue with email.
• If your account or workspace only allows Microsoft sign-in, you are now told right away instead of being sent an email code that will not work.
• After you request a sign-in code, absentify now fills in your email address when you return within 24 hours, so you do not have to type it again.
• Failed sign-in attempts now show clearer, friendlier messages instead of confusing or technical error text.
• absentify now shows each day and absence in a clearer layout in the weekly absence summary, so the email is easier to scan.
• absentify now lists only days with planned absences in the weekly absence summary, so the email focuses on what matters for the week ahead.
• You can now spot pending absences at a glance in the weekly absence summary.
• absentify now uses an updated layout for the weekly birthday and anniversary reminder email, with clearer event details and a visible date range.
• absentify now makes the weekly absence summary and birthday and anniversary emails easier to read on phones and smaller screens.
• If you keep absentify open across an update, absentify now refreshes itself when a page would otherwise fail to load, so you can continue without a broken page.
• When you change which allowance a leave type deducts from, absentify now explains more clearly how many existing requests and users will be recalculated, how far back that goes, and that their balances may change.
• You can now view pending approvals and approve or decline absence requests through the AI assistant when you have approver permissions.
• You can now ask who is out and limit the answer to a specific department.
• Administrators can now optionally allow full workspace management when connecting an AI assistant, instead of limiting it to the usual user actions.
• absentify now explains in settings how user connections and permissions work when you connect an AI assistant.

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Allowance rounding mode

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Improvements

• absentify now syncs public holidays to Outlook calendars more reliably, without getting stuck or creating duplicate entries.
• absentify now fills in public holidays that were missing from Outlook calendars after many updates had not been processed.
• absentify now shows rounding adjustments more clearly in allowance breakdowns and ledgers, including when several amounts apply in the same month.
• absentify now stops retrying out-of-office replies and public holiday calendar sync when it has been turned off or is no longer connected to your organization.
• absentify now sends administrators at most one email per day when out-of-office messages cannot be applied because it needs to be re-enabled in your organization.
• absentify now automatically retries public holidays that failed to sync because calendar access was missing, once access is restored.
• absentify now automatically retries out-of-office replies and public holiday calendar sync after brief connection problems with Microsoft, instead of treating them as permanent failures.
• When you change which allowance a leave type deducts from, absentify now shows clearer counts of the affected requests and users, and labels the year as the calendar year of the earliest affected request.
• When you turn on allowance deduction for a leave type, absentify now keeps the option unavailable until the allowance list has finished loading, and shows a loading or error message instead of letting you save an incomplete setup.
• absentify now remembers your search and filter choices on pending leave requests when you return to the page.
• absentify now remembers your preferred grouped or flat list layout between visits.
• absentify now shows only the requests that match your current filters in the number on the “Open” tab.
• When you edit a leave type, absentify now shows why a duration unit is unavailable right away, instead of only after you open the list.
• absentify now keeps the payment reminder visible when a subscription is past due, instead of letting it appear behind other on-screen content.
• absentify now lays out landscape calendar PDFs on a dedicated wide page that shows the full year at a glance, with all twelve months on one page and a clearer summary section.
• absentify now shows more accurate allowance and non-deductible leave totals on calendar PDFs when the exported period spans more than one year.
• absentify now uses shorter, easier-to-read labels for PDF download and orientation.
• absentify now uses a consistent layout on organization settings edit pages, with save and cancel actions fixed at the bottom of the page.
• absentify now uses the full available width for forms on settings edit pages instead of a narrower column.
• absentify now uses more consistent back navigation and Previous buttons in multi-step setup flows across settings areas.

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Connect AI assistants with Microsoft sign-in

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Improvements

• absentify now shows a progress bar with your remaining balance on allowance cards for manually added time off or carry-over from previous years, instead of showing the amount without a visual bar.
• When you create a leave request, absentify now explains more clearly if your available allowance for the selected dates is lower because a higher amount applied only to an earlier period in the year.
• When you preview an allowance adjustment, you can now see when the balance will drop later in the year and what will remain.
• absentify now requires allowance rule assignments to cover every day without gaps, so you can only set an end date where the next assignment starts or on the user’s last employment day, with clearer messages when a change would leave time uncovered.
• absentify now extends a neighboring rule assignment to cover the removed period when you delete one, and explains this before you confirm.
• absentify now shows the employment end date on open-ended rule assignments for users who have left, instead of showing them as having no end date.
• absentify now describes “Manage manually” more clearly as the way to give a user no allowance for a period on purpose.
• When you add a rule to cover missing time, absentify now adjusts the start date to where the previous assignment ended and explains why.
• You can now turn on Microsoft profile manager sync even when no managers are found yet, and absentify keeps the current approvers or uses department managers until a manager becomes available.
• When a user’s manager is removed in your company directory, their department managers now handle approvals until a new manager is assigned.
• absentify now updates approver assignments automatically when manager information changes through user provisioning.
• Warnings in user settings now explain what will happen when manager information cannot be loaded, including during temporary connection issues.
• absentify now saves approver settings based on Microsoft profile managers when your synced organization data is available, even if Microsoft cannot be reached at that moment.
• absentify now shows a clear message that you can try again when Microsoft is temporarily unavailable, instead of a misleading permission error.
• absentify now keeps your existing approver settings when Microsoft reports revoked access or an outdated user record, instead of failing the save.
• When you change whether a leave type deducts from an allowance or which allowance it uses, absentify now asks you to confirm before saving, shows how many existing requests and users would be affected, and warns that past allowance years may go negative and carry over.
• absentify now labels a negative carryover from the previous year as an “Overdraft from the previous year” instead of unused allowance.
• absentify no longer shows expiry dates for overdraft amounts, because borrowed time does not expire.
• absentify now explains in allowance history that carryover limits apply only to unused days, not to days already taken.
• absentify now uses a refreshed, more consistent design for the create-account and sign-in pages, so they are easier to read and use.
• absentify now starts signup without an explainer video, so the first step is simpler.
• absentify now shows a clear loading message while your Microsoft 365 session is being checked.
• absentify now shows customer logos on signup in a simpler, static layout instead of a scrolling carousel.
• absentify now uses your own permissions for AI assistant connections instead of a shared workspace key.
• You can now keep an AI assistant connected without signing in again each time you use it.
• absentify now lets only workspace administrators set up AI assistant connections.

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Improvements

• absentify now calculates leave balances correctly for allowances tied to a fixed date in the year, such as hire anniversaries, including when an employee leaves before the next cycle.
• absentify now keeps the allowance history in line with the displayed balance, and credits stay available until their last valid day.
• absentify now shows 12-hour request times as AM and PM, including when you use German.
• absentify now saves your organization’s business hours when you update them in organization settings.
• absentify now automatically retries out-of-office replies that could not be set up once you add the missing message template.
• absentify now shows hours and minutes guidance as a short hint under the boxes, so the text is easy to read instead of being squeezed into the hours field.
• absentify now shows clearly whether a full day or a half day is deducted on work schedules with only a morning or afternoon.

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Improvements

• absentify now shows month names in your language in the calendar PDF annual overview.
• You can now edit an allowance’s general settings and rules on one screen, with save and cancel actions in a footer bar at the bottom.
• absentify now shows the current leave type values as soon as you open or save, instead of briefly flashing outdated data on the page or in the list.
• absentify now shows the current values when you open or save an allowance, instead of briefly flashing outdated data on the edit page or in the list.
• absentify now uses a refreshed, more consistent design for notification emails, including weekly absence summaries, birthday and anniversary reminders, and account or workspace deletion messages.
• absentify now shows your organization’s logo and brand color in the header and buttons of weekly absence and birthday or anniversary emails on Plus workspaces.
• absentify now shows a clearer confirmation page after you unsubscribe from the weekly absence summary.
• absentify now keeps “Save” and “Cancel” fixed at the bottom of organization settings pages, so you can reach them easily while you edit longer forms.

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Manual allowance defaults for new users

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Improvements

• absentify now shows a clear upgrade prompt when you try to make another user an administrator on the Free plan, explaining the one-administrator limit.
• absentify now transfers the administrator role on the Free plan more reliably, including while you search for who should receive the role.
• absentify now shows the option to transfer the administrator role only when at least one other active user is available to take over.
• absentify now explains more clearly when the last administrator cannot be removed and what the account status settings control.
• The inactive user notice on the user edit page now has a clearer title and explanation, plus a dedicated “Change status” button instead of a clickable banner.
• absentify now uses “Manage manually” across allowance settings instead of “No rule assigned” and “No rule (assign later)”.
• You can now edit yearly allowance amounts directly in the year table without an extra choice dialog.
• absentify now lays out action buttons in the allowance year table more clearly on smaller screens and in longer translations.
• absentify now hides the rule assignment section when an allowance type is hidden for a user, so you only see the hint that values are still tracked.
• You can now open help next to more profile fields, including “Display name”, “Custom ID”, “Time zone”, and “Holiday calendar”.
• absentify now explains who can see a birthday or employment date and how those dates affect allowance.
• You can now open clearer holiday calendar guidance from an info button next to the field.
• Adding or editing a leave type now keeps the organization settings sidebar visible, so you can move between settings sections without leaving the form.
• The leave type form now shows a clearer header with the type’s icon and name, a back button to the list, and save actions that stay visible while you scroll.
• absentify now shows allowance cards in a refreshed layout that makes your remaining balance easier to read at a glance.
• absentify now labels your balance by what you still have, what you had at year end, or when you have booked more than available.
• absentify now shows your allowance rate in the card header, including when a different amount will apply later in the year.
• absentify now explains when an allowance covers only part of the year because your employment started or ends during that year.
• absentify now shows the remaining amount and the use-by date on monthly allowance cards as separate, clearer lines.
• absentify now uses clearer headings in the calculation breakdown and shows credits and deductions with plus and minus signs.
• absentify now groups absences that are tracked without a limit under a clearer “counted only” section.
• absentify now keeps add and edit screens for allowances, departments, users, holiday calendars, and integrations inside organization settings, so the settings menu stays visible while you work.
• You can now return from those screens with a consistent back button, and the page header shows the item name when you are editing.
• absentify now applies and removes Outlook out-of-office replies more reliably, including for back-to-back absences and when your work schedule changes.
• absentify now shows clearer guidance when Outlook permission is still being checked or when activating automatic replies needs another try.
• absentify now automatically retries out-of-office replies that could not be set up once the required Outlook permission is granted.
• absentify now opens the leave request screen full screen on phones, with larger fields and action buttons that stay visible while you scroll.
• You can now choose dates, times, leave types, and other options on phones from a larger selection that opens from the bottom of the screen, instead of a small dropdown.
• absentify now makes it simpler to set up recurring requests on phones, with easier controls for how often they repeat and how many times they occur.
• absentify now highlights the range between the start and end dates you pick, so you can see your selection at a glance.
• absentify now sizes request details, confirmations, and public holiday views so they are easier to read on small screens.
• absentify now checks the allowance rule amount as soon as you leave the field, and shows a clearer message if the value must be greater than zero.
• absentify now always shows a link next to the rule amount field to manage this allowance individually per user.
• absentify now scrolls to the first field that still needs your attention when you save an incomplete allowance rule.
• absentify now keeps the allowance card next to the calendar at a stable width, so longer explanations stay inside the card.
• You can now open representative, absence notification, out-of-office reply, and multiple-approver settings on your current plan instead of seeing a blocking screen, and you are only asked to upgrade when you save a change that needs a higher plan.
• absentify now explains which plan is required and that you can look around before deciding to upgrade.
• The notifications list is now easier to use on phones and small screens.
• Out-of-office reply settings now show permission and setup guidance next to the settings instead of covering the whole page.
• After a plan downgrade, you can now save existing approver setups and remove representatives without being forced to upgrade.

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Adjustment preview

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Multi-year allowance view

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Allowance history search

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Improvements

• absentify now explains carry-over rules more clearly on allowance cards, including caps, expiry dates, and what happens to unused time at year end.
• absentify now shows more accurate amounts and dates in carry-over and expiry messages in allowance settings and exports.
• absentify now describes how you earn and carry over leave in wording that matches yearly and gradual allowance rules.
• absentify now keeps the search field on the Users page in your organization settings usable next to the filters, including when the status filter is shown.
• You can now configure default allowance rules for new users in Default User Settings, so you manage them alongside other defaults for invited and synced users instead of on each allowance’s rules page.
• absentify now explains allowance balances, carry-over, and expiry in clearer everyday language across profiles, calendars, and history.
• absentify now shows calculated annual balances and expected year-end amounts on the calendar allowance card when carry-over may still change.
• absentify now explains more clearly what happens when you set carry-over or adjust allowance by hand.
• You can now expand allowance history to see the full step-by-step calculation behind a balance.
• absentify now shows when a change in allowance history was recorded, separate from when it takes effect.
• You can now add or remove allowance with clearer choices instead of plus and minus symbols.
• absentify now shows carryover and remaining balance details in the calculation breakdown instead of a separate hint on the remaining column.

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Improvements

• absentify now calculates absence durations from your working hours when you book time off and when your balance is updated.
• Half-day absences now appear on the correct part of the day in the team calendar.
• You can now see half-day durations more clearly while you create a request.
• Calendar exports and reports now show corrected absence lengths.
• Existing approved absences may now update to reflect corrected durations based on your work schedule.

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Improvements

• The public holiday change history now shows the date and the admin who dismissed a suggestion, instead of when it was first suggested.
• The change history now describes a dismissed date-change suggestion as a move you kept, instead of as an applied change.
• The monthly allowance card now shows your remaining balance, a use-by date, and a short rule summary instead of a month-by-month strip.
• The monthly allowance card now highlights when a monthly balance is close to expiring, so you can see at a glance when time is running out.
• The monthly allowance card now shows up to three future months that already have time planned.
• Allowance details now show how much was used or expired unused each month.
• Month labels in allowance details now include the year when your organization’s year does not start in January.
• absentify now shows birthdays, work anniversaries, public holidays, and days off in the calendar colors from before late August, including in team calendars and exported PDFs.

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Improvements

• “Run again” on a recent export now starts that export immediately with the same settings, instead of only filling in the export form.
• A holiday suggestion from the official data now sits on the holiday it concerns in your calendar, so you review and resolve it right there.
• Each suggestion now explains what “new”, “no longer official”, and “date moved” mean.
• The recent changes list now states whether a suggested holiday was added to your calendar or is still missing, instead of showing a generic “not applied, past date” note.
• The recent changes list now shows only completed changes and resolved suggestions, not suggestions that are still open.
• Workspace admins now receive a single email per workspace when public holidays are updated, even when the update covers several holiday calendars or years.
• Public holiday update emails now separate the changes absentify applied automatically from the suggestions that still need your review.
• Holiday calendars that contain only custom days no longer receive large batches of official holiday suggestions.
• Public holiday update emails now use the correct singular and plural wording for the number of changes.
• Replies to public holiday update emails now go to absentify Support, and the email footer names the support address.
• Public holiday update emails now list the holidays in date order.
• Every holiday date in those emails now includes the year.
• The holiday calendar page now opens with an overview of the calendar’s status, including its location, how many users use it, and when it was last checked against the official holiday data.
• You can now rename a holiday calendar directly on its page, without saving and leaving the page.
• Each holiday suggestion now names the exact outcome of your choice, such as “Do not add” or “Keep”, instead of a generic dismiss.
• Holiday calendars no longer have a manual update button. Official changes arrive automatically or as suggestions you decide on the calendar page.
• absentify now explains the difference between removing an official holiday from a calendar and deleting a holiday you created yourself.
• A year without any holidays now shows a short message and a button to add the first one.
• The change history and the removed holidays list now use clearer labels and show the status of each entry.
• absentify now adds future years to your holiday calendars automatically, so you no longer need to add a year by hand in your organization settings.
• absentify now checks your holiday calendars every month and keeps them covering the years your team can already book time off in.
• The allowances table in your organization settings now spaces its columns evenly, so leave type names stay readable on both small and large screens.
• absentify now hides the Getting Started checklist automatically in workspaces that have been using absentify for a while.
• When you edit a work schedule, absentify now shows a clear error if a morning or afternoon period ends before it starts, instead of silently changing your times.
• You can now set the same start and end time for a morning or afternoon period in a work schedule.
• Work schedule setup no longer requires the afternoon period to start after the morning period ends.
• Day-based absences now appear on the correct half of the day in the calendar, whether they cover the morning, the afternoon, or the full day.
• Public holiday changes now sync to Outlook calendars faster by updating only the days that changed, instead of resyncing every holiday for every user.
• Renamed public holidays now show their new titles in synced Outlook calendars.
• Changing a public holiday’s duration, for example from full day to half day, now correctly updates the matching Outlook calendar entry.

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Copy a leave type with a different duration unit

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User status filter

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Automatic public holiday updates

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Removed holidays stay removed

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Holiday change history

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Recent exports on Settings > Export

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Improvements

• Activation links for inactive colleagues now activate the user as soon as you open the link, instead of only opening their profile for you to activate by hand.
• The absentify assistant in Microsoft Teams now always answers when you start a chat or ask for help.
• The Teams assistant now sends a single clear message when it cannot deliver an answer.
• The Start and Help commands in Microsoft Teams now show their text and the quick action buttons in a single message, without an empty bubble underneath.
• Several absentify tabs in the same Microsoft Teams team now each open the department you configured for them, instead of showing another tab’s department.
• absentify now explains why a duration unit is unavailable when you open the list.
• The explanation now names your next step, such as linking an allowance, creating one, upgrading your plan, or creating a copy.
• Allowances that do not match the unit of a leave type already in use are now shown as locked in the allowance tab.
• absentify now keeps your translated leave type names when you duplicate a leave type to switch between day-based and hour-based units.
• absentify now explains more clearly what you can do when a leave type’s duration units are locked.
• The duplicate dialog now shows the plan upgrade prompt directly when hour-based units require a higher plan.
• Locked allowance options now explain that a leave type is already in use only after absentify has finished checking for existing requests.
• The timeghost sync now sends hour-based absences per working period, so timeghost records the same hours that absentify deducted.
• Public holiday settings now call each entry a “holiday calendar”, so it is clear that you manage location-based calendars rather than individual holiday dates.
• The holiday calendars list now shows each calendar’s location, how many holidays it contains, and how many users use it.
• absentify now marks the calendar that new users receive by default.
• absentify now suggests a calendar name from the country and region you select when you create a holiday calendar.
• The invite and profile screens now explain which holiday calendar applies to a user and link straight to calendar management.
• Calendar PDF exports now finish much faster, including large bulk downloads for your whole team.
• absentify now creates PDF exports reliably even when your company logo or another image loads slowly.
• Excel and calendar PDF exports now run in the background, so you can keep working while they finish.
• absentify now shows a message with a download button when your export finishes while you are working elsewhere in the app.
• absentify now points you to the running export instead of starting a duplicate when you request the same export again.
• absentify now sends the ready-for-download email only for exports that take longer than a minute, because faster ones are ready on Settings > Export right away.
• The export-ready email now points you to Settings > Export and explains that your file stays available there for 24 hours.
• Microsoft sign-in now finds your account reliably when your stored email address differs only by capitalization or extra spaces.
• absentify now stores a user’s email address in the same format whether you add it by hand or through provisioning, so accidental spaces and capitalization no longer cause mismatches.
• absentify now catches duplicate email addresses within the same bulk import before those users are created.
• The user list now remembers your filters, search, page size, and page when you leave and come back during the same session.
• You can now search for a department or a manager on the Departments page in your organization settings.
• The Departments table now fits your screen instead of scrolling sideways.
• You can now click any row in the Departments table to open that department.
• Yearly allowance Excel exports now complete faster, so you spend less time waiting for large reports to download.
• Holiday calendar settings now show when the calendar was last checked against the official holiday data.
• absentify now recalculates allowances and emails the summary of an automatic holiday update only after every affected calendar has been updated.
• Admin emails about public holiday updates now separate the dates absentify moved automatically from the additions and removals it suggests.
• The recent changes list on a holiday calendar now marks each suggestion as “Suggested”, “Applied”, or “Dismissed”.

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Guided onboarding on mobile devices

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Manage out-of-office messages through integrations

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Improvements

• Setup tours now include a Back button so you can revisit the previous step.
• Setup tours now show which step you are on and how many steps are left.
• absentify now offers a Skip option when a step’s required action cannot be completed.
• Tour highlights now stay aligned with the element you are viewing while you scroll.
• Tour cards now stay fully visible near the edges of smaller screens.
• The header on phones and tablets now fits your logo and the action icons on narrow screens.
• absentify now tells a connected system clearly when a user is not in your workspace, instead of returning a general error.
• Connected systems no longer keep retrying a lookup for a user who does not exist.
• absentify now shows a clear validation message when a recurring absence uses options that do not fit the selected pattern.
• Calendar entries now sync more reliably when Outlook is temporarily unavailable.
• absentify now adjusts the date number on hourly absence bars so it stays readable against the absence color.
• Birthdays, work anniversaries, non-working days, and absences outside your schedule now use consistent colors in the calendar and in PDF exports.
• Work anniversaries now use an updated color that stands out in both light and dark mode.
• absentify now keeps your Outlook out-of-office reply tied to your longest absence when several of your absences overlap.
• Canceling one of several overlapping absences no longer switches off an out-of-office reply you still need.
• absentify now shows Hungarian forint amounts at their full value in your billing history and in the annual billing preview.

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Reply to absentify messages in Microsoft Teams

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Assistant actions in Microsoft Teams

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Improvements

• Answers from our support team now reach you in your Microsoft Teams chat as well as by email.
• absentify now tells you when your Teams chat switches from the assistant to a person on our team.
• You can now go back to the assistant at any time with the Back to the assistant button or the /bot command.
• Support conversations in Microsoft Teams now close automatically after 24 hours without activity.
• The Teams assistant no longer stays in support mode when you send an unrelated message long after our outreach arrived.
• Renaming a leave type or a department from a connected system now leaves its other settings, such as the linked allowance and the schedule rules, untouched.
• Actions that change data in Teams, such as creating, canceling, approving, or declining a request, now show a confirmation card so you can review the details before you confirm.
• The Teams assistant now answers how-to questions by searching the absentify documentation during your conversation.
• Calendar tooltips for hourly absences now show the duration from your work schedule, so unworked breaks such as lunch are no longer counted.
• absentify now accepts your timeghost API key when you are a timeghost admin in any of your workspaces, not only in your default one.
• The timeghost sync now handles users who were deactivated or removed in timeghost more reliably while it transfers absences.
• Every section of a user’s settings now has its own link, so you can bookmark a page or send a colleague straight to the right tab.
• A link can now open the exact item you are looking at, such as a schedule, an allowance adjustment, a leave request, an email, or a notification rule.
• Notification emails about a colleague now open that user’s profile page directly.
• absentify now tells you clearly when you are not allowed to open a user’s settings.
• A link to a settings page that does not exist now shows a clear message and a way back.
• The email history now shows more messages at once.
• You can now link directly to a single email in the email history.

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Improvements

• absentify no longer asks you to confirm your email address when your account signs in with Microsoft.
• You can now buy or upgrade a plan without a confirmation prompt when your account signs in with Microsoft.
• The email confirmation page now explains when your account or workspace requires Microsoft sign-in instead of showing a general error.

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Improvements

• absentify no longer shows an empty bar above your calendar when you cannot switch users or create requests there.
• Year navigation now appears next to the calendar title, so your calendar page looks tidier.
• The allowance card now shows how the days under “Taken” are split by leave type, even when only one leave type deducts from that allowance.
• absentify now adapts the calendar colors for birthdays, work anniversaries, and public holidays to your light or dark appearance.
• The work anniversary color now stands out clearly against a dark background.
• absentify now shows birthdays and work anniversaries in the calendar with clearer colors in light mode.
• The annual allowance Excel export now fills the “Will expire” and “Expires on” columns with your next upcoming expiry, even when that date falls in a later year.
• The allowance view in user settings now shows when remaining days expire in a future year, so you can see an upcoming expiry without waiting for it to reach the current year.
• The team overview timeline now fits the width of your screen instead of scrolling sideways.
• absentify now shows the hover hints on buttons and icons again across the app.
• You can now request a leave type that is not deducted from your allowance, such as sick leave, even when your balance is used up.

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Per-department absence visibility

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Improvements

• absentify now assigns a default allowance rule for your organization automatically when you set up department allowances or complete an allowance migration.
• New users in a department without its own default allowance rule now receive your organization’s default rule instead of starting without one.
• absentify now checks that the assigned public holiday calendar exists in your workspace when you create, update, or import members.
• The calendar PDF download button no longer appears when you are not allowed to download that person’s calendar.
• Weekly absence summary emails now respect the absence visibility set for each department.
• absentify now warns you when a calendar, shift, or time tracking sync includes a department whose absences are restricted.
• With Calendar view turned off, colleagues who are not allowed to see someone’s annual overview can no longer open it through a direct link.
• The allowance breakdown now shows a plain remaining amount on each period row instead of a label such as “8 free”, so the figures match the rest of the breakdown and add up clearly.
• The allowance card now labels breakdown periods “Rule until” and “Rule from”, so each date clearly belongs to an allowance rule rather than to the length of your time off.
• The allowance card now says “more dates” instead of “more end dates” when several upcoming dates affect your balance.
• The Microsoft sync log now shows when a user’s employment start date is updated, so you can confirm that the hire date arrived during the sync.
• absentify now checks your allowance for a recurring request the same way it does when you submit it, so the preview matches the result.
• The recurring request summary now shows a clear warning when your balance is not enough for the whole series.
• The duration preview no longer shows an estimated value while absentify is still calculating the actual duration.
• The allowance card now labels an upcoming deadline as “runs out if unused” instead of “ends”, so you can see that the time stays yours when you use it before that date.
• The monthly allowance breakdown no longer shows a use-by date when your remaining amount for that month never expires.
• The allowance card and its descriptions now show more accurately what is available and how long it lasts when your allowance rule changes.

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Improvements

• absentify now shows how many days of an expiring allowance adjustment can still be lost, counting only the days you have not already used.
• Your remaining allowance now matches across the allowance card, the detailed breakdown, admin member settings, and leave booking.
• When you rate absentify 1 to 3 stars in the in-app rating prompt, absentify now asks for a short comment before your rating is submitted.
• You can now change your star rating from the feedback step if you picked the wrong score.
• absentify again shows your balance, taken days, and remaining allowance on the calendar card for leave types that let you take more time off than was allocated.
• Leave types without an allowance balance now explain that absences are recorded and not deducted from a balance.
• absentify now keeps employment start and end dates in sync with Microsoft Entra ID during group sync, including when someone is reactivated or rehired.
• The allowance card header now leads with your balance for the year instead of summarizing the detailed accrual rules.
• Allowance breakdown sections in the Details view now use clearer labels.
• The allowance progress bar now labels your unused days as “remaining” instead of “open”.
• An allowance deadline that has already passed now reads “was available until” instead of sounding like those days can still be booked.
• absentify now turns off a member’s Outlook out-of-office replies automatically when you archive them.
• When you reactivate an archived member, absentify restores their out-of-office replies for absences that are ongoing or still to come.

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Redesigned allowance card

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Improvements

• When you submit a leave request, you now see how much allowance is available for the dates you selected, including a use-by date when one applies.
• If a request cannot be submitted because your allowance is not enough, the message now names how much is available for the dates you picked.
• The expiry field for an allowance adjustment now explains that the date you enter is the last day those days can still be used.
• The approval history now loads much faster for managers and approvers, especially in large workspaces.
• When you switch to a smaller plan or cancel, absentify now asks why in the confirmation step instead of opening a separate cancellation popup.
• The account deletion feedback form now explains more clearly which details help us understand and address your concerns.
• A connected system can set a user’s yearly allowance again. absentify stores it as one Set via API adjustment, next to any adjustments you made yourself.
• An integration that omits carry-over settings no longer clears a carry-over override you set by hand.
• You can now browse the full left navigation menu in Organization and Profile settings on desktop without a separate scroll area.

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Localized leave and allowance type names

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Improvements

• Leave and absence data from integrations now includes the original stored name alongside any translated name, so you can identify the same records across systems.
• Month and weekday names in absence overviews now match the selected language when translations are requested.
• When you switch a user’s allowance to manual management mid-year, you now see a warning that shows how the current year’s allowance will change before you save.
• Rule assignment screens now explain when a member starts accruing on their employment start date, even if the assignment begins earlier.
• Member allowance views, exports, and history now show the date each user actually starts accruing allowance.
• Tables in Settings, Insights, and related areas now work better on phones and tablets, with less sideways scrolling and the most important details shown first.
• Billing invoice history is easier to scan on narrow screens, with payment status shown alongside the date.
• Integration, department, user, and allowance tables are easier to use on smaller screens, with clearer layouts and larger tap targets for actions.

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Allowance type management

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Allowance rules and member assignments

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Member allowances and audit history

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Improvements

• Automatic Out of Office replies in Outlook are now more reliable.
• Absences that cannot receive an auto-reply are no longer left in a pending sync state.
• Out-of-office sync now continues for other team members even if one account cannot be reached temporarily.
• Out-of-office auto-replies are now set reliably for absences that are already underway, including multi-day leave.
• Out-of-office replies now work correctly for team members in all time zones.
• Allowance year breakdown tooltips now show a more accurate split between automatic adjustments and manually entered changes.
• When you edit a user’s allowances, each year without an assigned rule now shows the correct management options, even if other years already have a rule assigned.
• When no rule is assigned for a year, you now see a dialog to assign manual management, add a one-time adjustment, or edit carry-over only.
• Allowance and overtime values are now locked with a helpful hint when no rule is assigned for that year, so you are not asked to enter values that cannot be saved.
• The rule assignments section now explains how to manage allowances manually when no rule is assigned.
• The annual allowance Excel export now includes an “Expires on” column that shows when carry-forward allowance will expire, alongside the existing “Will expire” and “Expired” amounts.
• Leave requests can now be submitted again for the current and upcoming year when a user’s allowance rule assignments have ended.
• Leave balances now update correctly when an administrator changes a member’s employment dates after migration, even if the end date is extended or cleared and the start date is moved later at the same time.
• Allowance balances now stay accurate when a user’s employment dates change through Microsoft 365 sync, imports, or other integrations, not only when you change them in absentify.
• Date fields across the app now use a consistent calendar that matches your personal date format and week-start settings.
• You can now click the year in the calendar header to jump directly to a different year.
• Typed dates are now validated as you enter them, with a clearer message when a date is invalid or outside the allowed limits.
• Date fields in forms and dialogs now open and behave more reliably when you book time off, create a recurring request, or edit user settings.
• When you book hour-based absences, changing the date no longer resets the time you selected.
• Mandatory fields now show a required indicator (*) across forms and dialogs, so it is easier to see which information you need to fill in before submitting.
• Activation links in emails about inactive colleagues now expire after 24 hours and can only be used once.
• A new access request now replaces any earlier activation link.
• Clicking an activation link now opens a review step before you go to the colleague’s profile to activate them.
• If an activation link is expired, already used, or replaced, you now see a clear message with guidance on what to do next.
• absentify now shows warning notices on the sign-in page with clearer, easier-to-read text.
• Billing history now shows the invoice amount, the amount paid, and the account credit separately so you can see how each charge was settled.
• absentify now shows your remaining account credit at the top of billing history and applies it automatically to your next invoice.
• The account credit column in billing history is now hidden when your organization has no account credits, so the table is easier to read.
• When you try to remove a member’s employment start date, absentify now blocks the change if they are on an allowance rule that uses that date as the year start, and names the rule so you can move them to a rule with a fixed year start or keep the date.
• When you change a member’s employment dates, absentify now only warns about absences actually affected by your edit, not ones that were already outside the period.
• absentify no longer prompts you to cancel a member’s entire absence history when you correct invalid or inverted employment dates.
• If someone else changes a member’s employment dates while you try to save again, you now see a clear message and nothing is changed until you review and save again.
• The Allowance tab on a member’s profile now loads faster when you open it.
• Opening a member’s profile no longer briefly shows the users list before the edit view appears.

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Improvements

• The allowance history now shows the value a user had before the migration as a single read-only line for each migrated year, replacing the separate comparison and review panel.
• You can now submit the same email address again when signing in or signing up without being locked out for 15 minutes.
• absentify now takes you straight to the code entry step when a code for that address was just sent.
• The resend button for login codes now shows a short countdown and stays disabled until you can request another code.
• The email verification banner now uses the same countdown, so you can see when a new confirmation email can be sent.

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Review allowances from before the switch

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Employment periods as absence boundaries

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Improvements

• Allowance year tooltips for migrated years now include a Before the switch summary, so you can quickly verify the results without opening the full allowance history.
• Calendar month navigation arrows are now hidden when you cannot move further in that direction.
• Recurring absence requests now show a clearer message when every occurrence falls after the user’s last working day.
• Leave balances now correctly reflect carry-over amounts after allowance setup changes.

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Improvements

• The timeline now uses the full height of the screen on mobile, so more of your schedule is visible without awkward empty space.
• Regional date, time, and week-start defaults during workspace setup now match your selected or detected country instead of your browser language.

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Improvements

• Timeline filters on mobile now open in a dedicated dialog with Apply and Cancel, making it easier to adjust several filters before updating the view.
• Absent today and Create request are now full-width and better placed on smaller Timeline screens for quicker access.
• The Users page is easier to use on phones and tablets, with a cleaner layout, improved filters, and a simplified table.
• Organization user settings for access, Microsoft sync, defaults, and out-of-office replies are now easier to use on smaller screens.
• Leave request previews now update more smoothly when you change dates or times, with less loading flicker while allowance and overlap checks run.
• Allowance balance checks are now faster when you create a request, especially if you have a long history of past requests.

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Improvements

• When members move between Microsoft Entra ID groups, group sync now removes them from their previous department and updates their approver settings to match their current department.
• Group sync logs now explain more clearly when automatic department removal or archiving is skipped. For example, they call out when a linked group no longer exists or when a member still manages a department.
• When an allowance type is hidden for a user, the empty year table now explains that values are still tracked. It points you to the visibility switch instead of suggesting that you assign a rule.
• New users who join partway through the year in organizations that switched to allowance rules now receive the correct annual allowance instead of showing zero days.
• Changes to a user’s annual allowance or carry-over balance are now saved correctly instead of reverting to zero.
• Pages that load a lot of information at once, such as allowance settings, now open reliably instead of failing to load.
• Allowance ledger entries and exports now label automatic balance corrections as Automatic instead of incorrectly attributing them to a migration.

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Default allowance types for connected user management

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Improvements

• Microsoft 365 sync now appears as a compact status bar at the top of each user profile, with a clearer on/off switch and quick access to sync details.
• Microsoft 365 sync help links now open the relevant profile documentation, while admin center links take you directly to the selected user when available.
• The sync details view now shows the synced profile picture, when data was last received, and the Tenant for organization accounts.
• When sync is enabled, Microsoft-managed profile fields and the profile picture are clearly locked, with guidance on where to update them.
• Out-of-office reply templates that exceed the maximum allowed length now show a clear validation message when you save them.
• The attention banner for inactive users on the user edit page is now easier to notice.
• Creating a new allowance is now a clearer two-step process: first set its name and unit, then define how much is granted on the rules page.
• Allowances without rules now explain that no one accrues anything until you add the first rule.
• After saving a new allowance, you now go directly to its rules page so you can finish the setup in one flow.
• When you create the first rule for an allowance, a notice explains that all users will be assigned to it from the start of the current fiscal year.
• Info icons beside profile date fields now explain who can see birthdays, employment start dates, and employment end dates, and where each date may appear.
• When you reactivate or unarchive a user who still has an employment end date, absentify now reminds you that their allowance remains capped until you remove that date.

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Allowance availability breakdown

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Improvements

• When a user’s employment period is extended or their end date is removed, their leave balance is now corrected without adding duplicate allowance amounts.
• Editing a user’s employment start or end date now preserves all past allowance years, so correcting the dates later does not lose historical balances.
• When you archive or reactivate a user, their new status now appears immediately on the user edit screen.
• Timeline filters on mobile now have a clearer toggle button, an expandable filter panel, and chips for active filters, so you can remove individual filters or clear them all at once.
• On mobile, account and settings options are now available from a More options menu in the top bar instead of at the bottom of the side menu.
• The filter badge on the overview no longer shows a misleading count when your workspace has only one department.
• User roles in the account menu now appear in your selected language.
• The leave request form now shows how much allowance is available for your selected dates when it differs from your yearly remaining balance.
• If a request exceeds what you can book now, the message explains how much is available and when more days will be added.
• HR admins now see the same currently available balance and upcoming credit details when viewing a member’s allowance in the user settings.
• The onboarding wizard can now be opened and completed in Microsoft Teams.

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Improvements

• Absence attachments that exceed your plan’s file size limit are now clearly flagged in the upload list, with guidance to remove them and try again.
• When you upload several attachments at once, files within the limit are now saved even if other files in the same batch are too large.

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SCIM manager synchronization

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Improvements

• Manager-based approvers continue to work when a workspace moves from Microsoft Graph provisioning to SCIM.
• Approval chains now skip managers who are not provisioned in absentify, such as executives without an absentify account, instead of stopping the chain.
• Remaining balances for monthly accruing time off, such as TOIL, now show only what you can book today instead of including credits from future months.
• Will expire hints and related allowance figures now match the balance currently available to you.
• The employment end date is now always visible on user profiles, including for active users.
• Employment end dates can no longer be set before employment start dates, and a clear message explains what to correct when saving or archiving a user.
• When you archive a user, an existing employment end date is now filled in automatically.
• The Valid until date on an allowance rule assignment is now the last day the rule applies. A rule that ends on August 31 covers all of August, so a monthly accrual credits the full month instead of a prorated amount.
• Assignment periods now show the same date everywhere: in the rule assignment list, the year table, the allowance history, and the Rule valid until column of the export.
• The REST API reads and returns rule_end_date the same way, as the last day the rule applies. See the API introduction if your integration previously added a day to compensate.
• Allowance rules can now be assigned for a single day by selecting the same start and end date.
• When you change a user’s allowance rule, the new assignment now starts as soon as the previous one ends, without leaving a one-day gap.
• Allowance tooltips now break down totals by rule, manual adjustments, and rounding, so every line adds up exactly to the amount shown.
• The next upcoming allowance credit now shows its amount, date, and granting rule, including when multiple rules apply in the same year.
• While a user’s allowance balances are being recalculated, the year-by-year table now shows a loading state instead of outdated values and prevents edits until the update is complete.
• Leave durations are now calculated consistently across the calendar, request form, allowance balance, reports, and PDF exports, so the days shown match what is deducted from your allowance.
• Allowance rule histories and balance ledgers now show action dates and times consistently in your local timezone and preferred format.

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Correct past allowance rule assignments

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Improvements

• Saving other member details no longer accidentally removes the employment end date.
• Allowance balances now stay accurate when you extend a member’s employment period or clear an outdated end date.
• A clear warning now explains that editing or deleting a past assignment will recalculate allowances for the affected years.
• Every allowance rule assignment change now requires a documented reason, so each correction is fully recorded in the history.
• Allowance values in admin settings, including manual corrections, carry-over limits, and per-user allowance edits, now support two decimal places and preserve calculated amounts such as 4.96 instead of rounding them to half days when you edit them.

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Improvements

• When Microsoft sign-in cannot be completed, you now see clear guidance on what to do next instead of a generic error.
• Sign-in options that cannot work for your account are now hidden, so you are not prompted to repeat an unsuccessful sign-in.
• If your account or workspace uses email codes, the email sign-in form now opens automatically with your address filled in.
• If you are entering an email code but your account requires Microsoft, you can now return to Microsoft sign-in with one click.
• If your Microsoft account was recreated in the same organization, you can now sign in again without contacting support.
• Account conflicts involving a different Microsoft account, multiple accounts, or another organization now explain the situation and provide a way to contact support when needed.
• Allowance updates from connected HR systems no longer fail repeatedly for users without an active allowance rule.

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Precise allowance rule amounts

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Improvements

• Email security scanners that open your sign-in link no longer invalidate the login code you enter manually.
• Sign-in errors now clearly distinguish between expired codes and codes that have already been used.
• When you request too many login codes, you now see exactly how many minutes to wait before trying again.
• Pasted login codes with extra spaces or capital letters are now accepted automatically.
• Email delivery statuses now appear in your selected language, making notification history easier to understand.
• Email sign-in links no longer run out of uses when login is blocked by your organization’s sign-in rules, for example when Microsoft sign-in is required.
• Calendar and team absence views now load faster when you browse different date ranges.
• Leave data exports now complete more quickly when you filter by date range.
• Syncing leave data across an overly broad date range now shows a clear error instead of timing out.

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Improvements

• Translations for leave types, allowances, and public holidays now open in a dedicated dialog from a compact link beside the name field, with a summary of the languages already configured.
• Leave type and allowance names can no longer be saved when they are blank or contain only spaces.
• Microsoft Teams notifications now arrive more reliably, especially when many users are using absentify at the same time.
• Allowances in the admin user list now include manual adjustments and match each user’s allowance page.
• Allowance histories now list accruals, rounding, and manual adjustments in the correct order with accurate running balances, including for users who join during the year.
• Leave requests that use the exact remaining allowance are now accepted correctly after a workspace switches to allowance rules.

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Pause Outlook out-of-office synchronization

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Improvements

• The settings now clearly distinguish between pausing Outlook synchronization and permanently deleting your stored out-of-office templates.
• Clearer guidance explains when out-of-office messages cannot be edited or the feature is unavailable for your account.
• When viewing another person’s out-of-office settings requires a plan upgrade, the upgrade message now appears faster.
• In workspaces on the rule-based allowance model, the deprecated PUT /members/{id}/allowance/{allowance_type_id}/{year} endpoint now ignores the allowance field it receives. This restores the behavior integrations were built against before the rule model, where the value had no lasting effect. Use an adjustment or a rule to change an entitlement.
• Dark mode now looks more consistent across settings, forms, and dialogs.

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Reusable allowance rules

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Allowance rules for individual users

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Default allowance rules for departments

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Improvements

• Allowance rule and adjustment fields now accept comma decimal separators; adjustment fields round values to the nearest half day.
• Monthly accrual allowances now show earned and total entitlement, with clearer balances for future years.
• Balances now reflect rolling credit expiry and show both expired amounts and upcoming expirations.
• You can now delete an allowance type when only inactive or hidden rules remain.

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Improvements

• After you reconnect Microsoft, group calendar syncs now automatically add absences booked while syncing was paused.
• Paused group calendar syncs now show a clear reconnect banner, including guidance when another administrator needs to restore the connection.
• The Re-authorization required indicator in the calendar sync list now opens the affected sync setting so you can reconnect it.
• The organization settings sidebar now stays expanded as you navigate, keeping the page layout stable.
• The Log in to Microsoft button in calendar connection reminder emails now guides you through sign-in correctly.

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Guided plan downgrades

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Leave reasons in synced calendar events

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Improvements

• A new impact summary shows removed features and reduced limits, tracks your required actions, and gives you a dedicated confirmation step.
• Excess calendar syncs and webhooks are paused or turned off automatically, while unsupported approval flows are simplified. These settings return when you upgrade again, and your data is never deleted.
• Cancellations to the Free plan keep paid features active until the end of your current billing period, while other plan downgrades take effect as soon as you confirm.
• Clearer messages explain when webhooks or Power Automate flows are unavailable on your plan or have reached their plan limit.
• Workspaces whose plans are not managed through our payment provider are now directed to support for help changing plans.
• After instant signup, you now stay in the signup flow instead of being sent back to the sign-in screen moments later.
• Granting group calendar permission now shows a clear result in the consent tab and automatically refreshes the calendar sync setup after access is granted.
• A dedicated Grant permission button and clearer guidance now explain when a Microsoft 365 administrator may be required for group calendar access.
• Cancelling or unsuccessfully completing Microsoft consent now shows a clear outcome instead of a generic error.
• Notification emails can now reach an address again 14 days after an earlier permanent delivery failure, so temporary mailbox problems no longer block absentify emails indefinitely.
• Synced Outlook events now respect leave reason privacy on both personal and shared calendars, so private reasons are never added to event details.
• When you change a leave type’s reason privacy settings, existing events in Outlook and other synced calendars are now updated automatically to match.

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View one department in the timeline

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Choose departments from a clear empty state

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Improvements

• Notification emails now use an updated layout with clearer headings and improved readability on phones and across email clients.
• On Plus plans, workspace join request and dismissal emails can now display your organization’s logo and brand colors, consistent with other admin notifications.
• Company logos in email footers now scale correctly for both square and wide formats.
• Logo images in emails now include clearer descriptions for assistive technologies.
• Signing up with a personal email address, such as Gmail, now takes you directly to company registration when no matching teams are found.
• After instant signup on the web, you now continue to the next step without a full page reload for a smoother experience.
• The Integrations overview no longer suggests that all integrations require a paid plan; you can find the specific plan requirements on each integration’s page.
• The announcements bell now reflects which updates you have personally read, so its unread status is accurate for you.
• If sign-in to announcements cannot be completed, the bell still opens so you can continue viewing the latest updates.
• Signing in with Microsoft Teams on iPhone or iPad no longer gets stuck on a login screen that keeps reloading.
• Resetting department filters in workspaces with multiple departments now clears the selection instead of switching to the first department.
• Unchecking the last selected department now reliably leaves the timeline empty until you choose another department, even if an earlier filter change couldn’t be saved.

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Branded welcome emails

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Improvements

• absentify now cleans custom welcome email content of potentially unsafe formatting to ensure reliable rendering across email clients.
• Invitation emails now use the correct language when importing multiple members at once via spreadsheet.

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Improvements

• The timeline department filter now lets you select more than 5 departments, as long as the combined teams stay within the overview’s member limit (up to 20 departments).
• Clearer messages explain when you’ve reached the department cap, the member limit, or when member counts are still loading.
• Group leave requests now show which public holidays fall within the selected dates for affected department members, with a details view listing the holidays and whether they count toward allowance.
• The timeline filter panel resize handle is slimmer and less intrusive when adjusting panel width.
• Deleting a user is more reliable when the system is busy, and shows a clear message if you need to wait a moment and try again.
• The plan comparison page now shows specific export capabilities for each plan (annual Excel, monthly Excel and date range, PDF exports, and bulk PDF) instead of a generic “Extended” label.
• Export filter upgrade messaging now clearly states that filtered exports are available starting with the Mini plan, rather than referring broadly to paid plans.
• When activating users in bulk, selecting a mix of active and inactive users now activates only the inactive ones instead of showing an error.
• Editing a leave type no longer moves it to the end of the list, so your custom order is preserved.
• Entering multi-select mode on the users page now selects all users currently visible in your view, rather than an incorrect cross-page selection.

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Improvements

• Shared Outlook calendar sync now clearly flags when the target calendar is missing or invalid, sends a single admin alert instead of repeated failures, and prompts you to reconnect the integration.
• Restored the previous automatic sign-in experience when you open absentify in Microsoft Teams, addressing recent sign-in problems (including on mobile).

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Public holiday visibility when creating leave requests

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Book time off from public holidays

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Approval history

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Sort and filter pending approvals

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Flexible approval list views

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Improvements

• Public holiday details now indicate whether a holiday is deducted from your allowance when relevant to the selected leave type.
• After requesting to join a workspace, you now see a dedicated confirmation page with clear next steps instead of being signed out.
• Workspace join requests now include a 5-minute wait between submissions, with a visible countdown so you know when you can try again.
• Optional messages when requesting to join must be at least 5 characters, or you can leave the field empty.
• The signup flow makes it easier to create a new team or request to join another workspace after sending a join request.
• A “Not sure?” help option is available on the confirmation page if you need guidance on what to do next.
• Pending approval requests now show urgency hints when an absence is starting soon or has been waiting a long time.
• Approval groups can be collapsed and expanded for a tidier overview.
• Section titles on the approvals page are clearer (e.g. “Pending my approval”).
• The notifications area is labeled Notifications (replacing Exports) and is shown only to admins.
• Better mobile layout and empty states on the requests page.
• Export notification rows handle long text more cleanly.

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Improvements

• Cancelling a leave request or an entire recurring series is more reliable and less likely to fail when several changes happen at once.
• Leave type names in the calendar and when creating a request are now shown in full, with longer names wrapping onto multiple lines instead of being cut off.

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Exports

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Improvements

• The plan comparison now clearly distinguishes basic export capabilities on the Free plan from extended export options on paid plans.
• Calendar day cells now display free-day patterns and leave colors correctly on first load, without needing to scroll or refresh the view.

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Improvements

• You can now resize the overview filter panel on desktop and tablet by dragging its edge; your preferred width is remembered for next time.
• Resize handles on the timeline overview are easier to spot, with a “drag to resize” hint when you interact with them.
• Subscription plan changes now show clear, actionable messages when something goes wrong (for example, when an outstanding payment must be settled first) instead of confusing technical errors.
• Plan changes with very small billing adjustments complete successfully instead of failing unexpectedly.

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Improvements

• Sign-in through Microsoft Teams is more reliable on slow or unstable connections and no longer gets stuck in repeated login attempts.
• If sign-in can’t complete because of a connection problem, you’ll see a clear message asking you to check your connection and try again.
• Opening a leave request from a Microsoft Teams notification (“View request”) no longer gets stuck in a repeated sign-in loop.

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Improvements

• The Getting Started guide now appears in the header toolbar as a compact rocket icon with a progress indicator, replacing the floating widget in the bottom corner.
• The Getting Started guide now tracks each admin’s own setup progress individually instead of sharing one workspace-wide status.
• The Getting Started guide automatically hides once all setup tasks are complete.
• The documentation assistant sidebar has a clearer layout, larger tap targets, and improved keyboard focus support.
• Assistant chat action buttons now stack vertically for easier use on smaller screens.
• Guided tour tooltips are repositioned so they stay visible during leave type and privacy settings walkthroughs.
• Signing in to absentify in Microsoft Teams no longer gets stuck repeatedly asking you to sign in after you have already authenticated.

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Improvements

• The start page timeline loads faster, especially in workspaces with many team members.
• The start page timeline loads more smoothly, with less jumping as the calendar and filters appear.
• The Requests page feels steadier on load. Tabs, export status, and approval cards no longer shift the layout as data arrives.
• The email verification reminder no longer briefly flashes when you have already dismissed it in your current browser session.
• The Microsoft Teams app now opens immediately without a brief loading screen while the appearance is determined.
• Your preferred light or dark appearance is applied as soon as the app loads, without a momentary flash of the wrong theme.

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Improvements

• The dashboard timeline loads faster when you open absentify.
• The timeline feels smoother on first load, with less unnecessary reloading of absence data.
• Deleting or changing a Microsoft 365 group calendar sync now removes the linked absence events from the calendar instead of leaving duplicates behind.
• Microsoft sync logs now show when calendar syncs are created, updated, or deleted, and when calendar event cleanup runs.
• When you add an email address to an active user who has not been invited yet, a hint now explains that saving will send an invitation email.

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Improvements

• Company account deletion now uses a single, simpler screen where you share why you’re leaving in your own words (at least one sentence).
• If you enter the wrong deletion PIN, you’ll see the error right away instead of after filling out the feedback form.
• The user access settings now show a note explaining why billing access cannot be removed from the last active administrator.
• Department absence limits now count how many team members are away at the same time. Leave requests are no longer wrongly rejected when colleagues are absent at different times on the same day.
• Sign-in to absentify from Microsoft Teams works automatically again without requiring a separate login.

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Instant email signup

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Deferred email verification

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Individual calendar PDF export

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In-app export notifications

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Improvements

• The email sign-in option on login and signup now uses a clearer “Continue with email” label instead of promising a verification code upfront.
• Email confirmation links require an explicit click to confirm, so automated email security scanners are less likely to invalidate your link before you use it.
• Magic-link and verification emails now include a plain-text version, so they display more reliably across email clients and are easier to read in text-only inboxes.
• The notification bell now includes pending and completed calendar exports alongside approval requests.
• Duplicate bulk calendar exports for the same date range and department selection are prevented while one is already running.
• Clearer messages when a calendar export fails or cannot be started.
• Approve and decline actions on leave requests are more reliable and accessible.

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Improvements

• The export page now lets you set month, date range, and department filters before upgrading, and shows a clearer upgrade prompt when you try to export with those options on a free plan.

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Improvements

• On the Overview, your own row is now shown at the top of the member list so you can find yourself quickly without scrolling, including in larger teams.

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Improvements

• Notification emails for leave requests have a redesigned layout that can show your organization’s logo and brand colors.
• Notification emails are sent in each recipient’s preferred language, with dates and times formatted to their settings.
• Notification emails now include clearer details such as approval status, decline or cancellation reasons, attachments, and information about recurring request series.
• The “Make recurring” button on the leave request form is easier to use across mobile and desktop screen sizes.

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Automatic Shifts reason updates

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Representatives on integrated leave requests

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Localized allowance names

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Improvements

• Allowance names in email and Teams notifications now appear in each recipient’s language when translations are configured.
• Microsoft Shifts sync activity is now visible in Organization sync logs, with a dedicated filter to review Shifts-related operations.
• Shifts sync resumes on its own when a team’s schedule is turned on after the integration was first set up.
• Shifts sync now shows a clear status when a user is not linked to Microsoft, instead of failing without explanation.
• absentify no longer changes time-off reasons that already existed in your Microsoft Shifts schedule before the integration was configured.
• Approved absences stay in sync even when the matching entry was removed directly in Microsoft Shifts.
• Calendar tooltips now list public holidays in a consistent order alongside absences, birthdays, and work anniversaries.
• Creating an absence by dragging across multiple days now completes correctly when the selection ends on a public holiday.
• Full-day public holidays show their details when you hover over either half of the day in the calendar.
• Leave request previews now show the same duration and allowance that will actually be booked when time-of-day details are left out.
• Clearer error when trying to book a morning or afternoon absence on a leave type that only supports full days.
• Recurring hour-based leave requests now require a valid start and end time before they can be submitted.
• CSV import shows clearer row-level errors when half-day settings are used on full-day-only leave types.

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Improvements

• Organizations on the Mini plan can now configure calendar sync.
• Requesters now receive a single Teams notification when all required representatives have accepted, instead of one notification per representative action.
• Representatives who never accepted or declined no longer receive cancellation notifications when a recurring absence series is canceled.
• Cancellation notifications in Teams now show “Canceled by another manager” when privacy rules hide the name of the person who canceled the request.
• Representative decline updates are quieter and more accurate: intermediate declines update the card without extra pings, and misleading “another representative can still cover” messaging is no longer shown when the request was canceled.
• Calendar tooltips now show “Event” instead of “Leave type” when a day only includes birthdays, work anniversaries, or public holidays.
• API keys now reflect your current subscription and admin permissions on every use, so access is removed immediately if your workspace no longer has Plus or your admin access changes.
• When API access is blocked because Plus is required, you now see a clear upgrade message instead of a generic authentication error.
• Microsoft Teams status cards for your own leave request now appear right away when representative approval is required, instead of only after representatives have accepted.
• Teams notification cards now respect cross-department visibility: users you cannot see in absentify appear as “User not visible” in approval chains, and actions by managers from other departments are shown as “by another manager” instead of revealing their name.

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Improvements

• Weekly absence summary and birthday/anniversary Teams notifications in large organizations now show a trimmed preview with a link to view the full list in absentify, instead of failing to send.
• Scheduled Teams notifications no longer post a generic “something went wrong” message when delivery fails in the background.
• Outlook calendar entries now appear reliably after a leave request is approved, including when the first sync attempt was skipped or did not complete.
• Teams notifications for recurring leave requests now update when a single occurrence is canceled, so pending cards show the correct dates and occurrence count.
• Teams cards now respect privacy when showing who created a request on someone else’s behalf, using a generic “Created by another manager” label instead of a name when the recipient cannot see the creator.