Vacation plugin (vacation + official & local holidays)

Features

• Set the vacation entitlement per user via Custom-fields plugin
• Let users create a vacation application based on their vacation days budget
• Admins can grant, deny or cancel vacation applications
• See in one view a summary of all users vacation days
• German public holidays can be automatically imported based on the state
• Manual creation of public/local holidays is also possible
• Fully configurable via GUI
• Support for multiple working times (e.g. 40 h/week, 15 h/week - fully configurable per user)
• Full history of every request

Requires

• Custom-fields plugin to save the vacation entitlement per user
• Kimai 2, V1.12+

Documentation

Setup

Recommended Setup: watch the youtube video at the bottom!

Create two custom fields for users using the custom-fields plugin:

• One for the amount of vacation days in the first year in which the users started working (integer)
• The other one for the daily working time (duration)

If you’re logged in as super-admin you will see an item in the menu called “Vacation view”. In it there is a settings-tab. Here you can select the state for public holidays, the activities that will be used as public holidays and vacations.

The last two inputs are dropdowns with all meta-fields. Select the ones you created earlier.

Permissions

The install-command will create two permissions:

• vacation
• vacation_admin

Users with none of the permissions won’t see the vacation tab in the menu.

If you assign the vacation permission to a user they will see the leave-application tab in the menu.

Super-admins and users with the vacation_admin permission have full control over this plugin.

Updating the plugin

Updating the bundle works the same way as the installation does.

• Delete the directory var/plugins/VacationBundle/ (to remove deleted files)
• Execute all installation steps again:
  • Copy files
  • Clear cache
  • Update database with bin/console kimai:bundle:vacation:install

Video Tutorial

Copy files

Extract the ZIP file and upload the included directory and all files to your Kimai installation to the new directory:

var/plugins/VacationBundle/

The file structure needs to like like this afterwards:

var/plugins/
├── VacationBundle
│   ├── VacationBundle.php
|   └ ... more files and directories follow here ...

Clear cache

After uploading the files, Kimai needs to know about the new plugin. It will be found once the cache was re-built. Call these commands from the Kimai directory:

bin/console kimai:reload --env=prod

bin/console cache:clear --env=prod
bin/console cache:warmup --env=prod

You might have to set file permissions afterwards:

chown -R :www-data .
chmod -R g+r .
chmod -R g+rw var/
chmod -R g+rw public/avatars/

Create database

Run the following command:

bin/console bin/console kimai:bundle:vacation:install

This will create the required database tables and update them to the latest version.

Updating the plugin works exactly like the installation:

• Delete the directory var/plugins/VacationBundle/
• Execute all installation steps again:
  • Copy files
  • Clear cache
  • Update database with bin/console bin/console kimai:bundle:vacation:install