XStudio 1.0: Absences and Holidays management implemented

I've just finished implementing the absences and holidays management system. Each user is now associated to one location/country (I'm using ISO convention).


Each country can be easily configured: public holidays can be added, edited and deleted. In addition, each country is associated to some week-ends settings. Hence, most of the countries in the world are using Saturday and Sunday for the week-ends but some others (such as Israel, Qatar, Algeria etc.) are using Friday and Saturday and again some others (such as Saudi Arabia) Thursday and Friday.

The default settings are supposed to be correct but it's good to let the administrator of the system customizes it if necessary. These settings are accessible through the Settings menu entry.


Hence, all the calendars are affected by this change as each user may have different week-ends.

Absences are also included in the calendars so you have a complete picture of the projects or the staff workload. Status are then easier to figure out.

Half-yearly scale

Monthly scale

Note that the calendar tree is still expandable as usual. This greatly facilitates the reading i.e. when you want to know the details about why a user is overloaded in a certain time frame.

A legend (including some gradient colors for the workload) has been added to help the reading .
These features will be availabe in XStudio 1.0a3 at the usual location: http://www.xqual.com/support/download.html.