How to create a leave-typed availability block#
For: Manager You’ll need: A person and a leave policy that applies to them.
If you create an unavailability with a leave type — vacation, sick, unpaid, and the other absence types — Shiftavo also creates a leave request and routes it through the approval workflow.
Open the create form#
Go to Planning → Availability list and click ‘Create unavailability’.
Fill in the block#
Pick the ‘Person’.
Open the ‘Unavailability type’ dropdown and choose ‘Vacation’ (or ‘Sick’, ‘Unpaid’, ‘Other absence’, ‘Bereavement’, ‘Civic duty’, ‘Military service’, ‘Care leave’).
Set the start and end.
Save#
Click ‘Save’.
A leave request is automatically created for the same window. It enters the standard approval workflow — see Leave requests.
Warning
Don’t double-book: if the person already has an overlapping unavailability or leave — pending or approved — you’ll see a validation error. Pick other dates, or first decline, revoke, or delete the existing entry.
Verify it worked#
The availability block appears with the leave type, and a matching leave request shows up under Leave requests.