1. v26.10.8 #

    🚀 First release

    Version 26.10.8 is the first public release of Vitextra Absences & Substitutions (Employee Lifecycle Suite): three web parts for SharePoint Online pages and a Microsoft Teams app. Employees request time off and see their balances, managers approve with team conflicts in view, everybody sees who is away, and substitutes are assigned, confirmed and tracked. All data stays in SharePoint lists of your own site. Licensed per tenant, not per user.

    My Absences

    • Balances per absence type: entitlement (including carry-over), used, pending and remaining days.
    • New request panel: type, dates, half days (starts or ends at midday), an optional substitute and a comment; the working days are calculated live (weekends, public holidays, half days). Warnings for overlapping requests, insufficient balance and a missing approver. Types without approval are approved immediately.
    • My requests for the selected year with statuses, cancellation and Add to my calendar (.ics).
    • Approvals tab for approvers: colleagues also away in this period, approve or reject with a comment (the reason is required for a rejection). Approver: the manager from Microsoft Entra ID, otherwise the fallback approver; self-approval is automatic.
    • Optional Upcoming public holidays block.

    Team Absence Calendar

    • Timeline (people × days) and Month views; Week, 2 weeks and Month ranges.
    • Scopes: My team, My direct reports, My department, Everyone with absences.
    • Away today with substitutes, clickable Absence types legend, pending requests hatched, public holidays and weekends shaded, today marker, half days marked, tooltips, Export to CSV.
    • Private absence types (for example sick leave) are shown to colleagues as "Away".

    Substitutions

    • Tabs I cover, Covering me, Who covers whom (search, Running and planned filter, In progress / Planned / Ended) and, for managers, No substitute (approved absences of direct reports in the next 120 days without a confirmed substitute, Assign button).
    • Assign a substitute panel: absent person, substitute, period, kind, responsibilities. Kinds Temporary and Handover of duties (offboarding, no end date required).
    • A substitute named in a request becomes a substitution when the request is approved; it is cancelled with the request. Statuses: Waiting for confirmation, Accepted, Declined, Cancelled.
    • The Substitutions list is the data source for "who covers X" in People Connector.