Learn how to manage public holidays in absentify, including customizing holiday sets, assigning them to users, and enabling Outlook calendar synchronization.
The Public Holidays feature in absentify allows you to manage and customize holiday sets for your team, ensuring accurate absence calculations and tailored configurations for employees in different regions or countries.
To create a new public holiday set:
Navigate to Settings > Public holidays and click + Add public holiday.
Fill in the required details:
Click Save to create the holiday set.
The system will automatically populate public holidays for the selected country or region.
You can edit, delete, or add new entries to fully customize the holiday set based on your organization’s needs.
You can customize an existing holiday set that was manually created by:
Translations ensure that holidays appear in the correct language for users with different language settings. Note: Adding translations and edits is only available for custom public holiday entries. Predefined holiday sets generated by absentify cannot be edited but can only be deleted entirely.
You can add or edit translations for holiday names:
This feature is only available for custom public holiday entries, not predefined sets.
To assign a holiday set to specific employees:
Assigning region-specific holiday sets ensures accurate absence calculations for employees in different locations.
To delete a holiday set:
Deleting a holiday set removes it from all associated users. Existing absences that included these holidays will remain unaffected in the absence history but will not factor into future calculations. Ensure the set is no longer in use before deleting.
Public holiday entries are automatically synchronized with employees’ Outlook calendars starting from the Essentials Plan (Essentials and Plus Plan).
To enable synchronization of public holidays with Outlook calendars:
If a holiday set is updated, the changes will be reflected in employees’ Outlook calendars automatically.
Public holidays are automatically updated to reflect new calendar years. You can manually add or adjust entries if needed for organizational purposes.