Define which days of the week count as working days in Vitextra Absence & Coverage: add the WorkDays row to the Settings list, choose the weekday numbers, see how the setting changes the working-day count of requests and the shading of the Team Absence Calendar.
How to give each employee an individual yearly entitlement and carry-over days in Vitextra Absence & Coverage: the Balances list, how a row is matched to a person, type and year, how to find the TypeId, worked examples and what employees see on their balance cards.
How Vitextra Absence & Coverage counts the working days of an absence request: the working week, public holidays, half days, worked examples with dates, periods that cannot be submitted, and why changed settings do not recalculate requests that were already sent.
How private absence types work in Vitextra Absence & Coverage: who sees the real type and the number of days, where the grey "Away" label replaces them in the Team Absence Calendar and in the CSV export, which types are private by default, how to change the setting and what the privacy rule does not protect.
A tour of the Vitextra Team Absence Calendar web part for SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams: the Away today block, the toolbar, the Timeline and Month views, period navigation and what the calendar includes.
A reference to substitutions in Vitextra Absence & Coverage: what a substitution is, the two kinds (temporary and handover of duties), the statuses and phases, who creates, accepts and cancels a substitution, how it relates to absence requests, and where substitutions are shown.
Overview of Vitextra Absence & Coverage for SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams: the three web parts (My Absences, Team Absence Calendar, Substitutions), who uses what, where the data is stored, requirements and what is not included in this version.
How Vitextra My Absences chooses the approver of a time-off request: the manager from Microsoft Entra ID, the fallback approver, types that need no approval and self-approval. Includes a table of examples, what the employee sees and what happens when no approver can be found.
Troubleshooting guide for the Vitextra Absence & Coverage My Absences web part: every message that blocks a new absence request - no absence types, missing dates, no working days, overlapping requests, insufficient balance, no approver, lists not found - with the cause and the fix for the employee and for the administrator.
Why absence requests and substitutions in Vitextra Absence & Coverage should be changed in the web parts rather than in the SharePoint list view: how dates are stored, which lists are safe to edit directly, what to avoid and how to correct a mistaken request.
Reference for the Query Builder of the Vitextra List Filter Online web part: where to find it, how conditions and AND/OR groups work, which operators are available for each column type, how dynamic conditions such as Current User and Last X Years are resolved, how the predefined filter combines with user filters, and how to view the generated CAML query.
A practical comparison of the Vitextra List Filter Online web part and the built-in List and Document library web parts of SharePoint Online: filtering, predefined queries, paging, columns, grouping and totals, Excel export, cross-site data, large lists and web part connections - and when the built-in web part is enough.