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How to Export the Team Absence Calendar to CSV

Step-by-step guide to exporting the absences shown in the Vitextra Team Absence Calendar to a CSV file: which absences are included, the file name, UTF-8 encoding and semicolon separator, how to open the file in Excel, the exported columns and how private absence types are handled.

10/28/2026 Lidija Reising 73

How to Find Absences Without a Substitute

How managers use the No substitute tab of the Vitextra Substitutions web part to find approved absences of their direct reports in the next 120 days that still have no confirmed substitute, what the three status pills mean and how to close a gap with the Assign button.

10/28/2026 Lidija Reising 84

How to Find Out Who Covers Whom

Find out who is covering whom in your organization with the Vitextra Substitutions web part: use the Covering me and Who covers whom tabs, search by name, filter running, planned and ended substitutions, and read every row correctly.

10/28/2026 Lidija Reising 67

How to Name a Substitute When You Request Time Off

Learn how to choose a substitute in an absence request in the Vitextra My Absences web part: when the substitution is created, why the colleague has to confirm it, what happens if the request is rejected or cancelled, and how it differs from assigning a substitute in the Substitutions web part.

10/28/2026 Lidija Reising 82

How to Read Your Absence Balances

Understand the balance cards in the Vitextra My Absences web part: how the remaining days, the used and pending days and the progress bar are calculated, where the yearly entitlement and carry-over come from, which absence types get a card, and how requests of each status affect your balance.

10/28/2026 Vitālijs Kalniņš 85

How to Request Half a Day Off

Learn how to request half a day or a half-day start and end of a longer absence in Vitextra My Absences: which absence types allow half days, how the two "midday" checkboxes work, how half days are counted in working days and balances, and how back-to-back half days avoid overlaps.

10/28/2026 Vitālijs Kalniņš 92

How to Request Time Off in My Absences

Step-by-step guide to requesting vacation, a personal day or another absence in the My Absences web part: choosing the type and dates, half days, a substitute and a comment, the checks before sending, and what happens after you submit the request.

10/28/2026 Vitālijs Kalniņš 77

How to See Who Is Away Today and Who Covers Them

How to use the Away today block of the Vitextra Team Absence Calendar to see who has an absence today, until when, and who covers them: which absences are listed, how substitutes are shown, private types and the empty state.

10/28/2026 Lidija Reising 73

How to Set the Fallback Approver

Configure the FallbackApprover setting in Vitextra Absence & Coverage so that absence requests of employees without a manager in Microsoft Entra ID are still routed to an approver. Covers the Settings list row, how the approver is chosen, what employees see and what to do when no approver is found.

10/28/2026 Lidija Reising 87