Employee holiday requests and calendar

[questsal78]

Hi,

I need some guidance how to implement employee holiday calendar.

I know employee can make holiday requests from catalog and I can have workflow so that their manager can approve it. Once it's approved should I just add it to a schedule. Can I have a schedule/calendar where I can save holiday schedule of all employees?

Also their managers/employee/HR person should be able to view this holiday calendar in dashboard.

Thank you,

Mujtaba

[Roger Poore]

At my previous job, most employees used Outlook to keep track of their days off. The org hierarchy aspect of the calendar worked great.  Managers could easily view their employee's days off.  

For the IT department, I created a system that checks their Outlook calendar and displays that information when/if the person is assigned an incident in ServiceNow.  Basically, when someone assigns an incident to Bob, a little message will pop up saying Bob is on vacation.  Bob, nor anyone else, has to do anything in ServiceNow to make that happen.  All Bob has to do is have that vacation day marked on his Outlook calendar.

I know that doesn't answer your question.  But maybe there's another way to go about what you're wanting to do, especially if your employees use another calendaring product as well.  

[questsal78]

thank you for your response.

I want to achieve this in ServiceNow, from making leave request and to adding it to a Calendar. I was reading Kiel Sanders response in community and he mentioned to use "Request Leave of Absence" HR template for this purpose.

Now I'm thinking to create a custom table to save employee holiday requests, have their managers to approve it and generate a calendar report from that table. I've tested how to add appointments in outlook calendar from ServiceNow so I can use same logic here, I believe.

Other solutions to buy subscription for Resource Management or other third party apps are not an option for me at the moment.