{"id":1144,"date":"2013-08-19T21:47:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T04:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Polarion-Blog\/Managing-an-Important-Requirement-Vacation\/ba-p\/380768"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:35:11","slug":"managing-an-important-requirement-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/managing-an-important-requirement-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing an Important Requirement: Vacation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer means <STRONG>vacations<\/STRONG>. When you have more than a couple of people working on a project, juggling everyone&#8217;s vacation schedule is a <STRONG>headache for project managers<\/STRONG>. They have to email or talk to everybody, plug the dates into some tool like a calendar or spreadsheet, and figure out if it all fits or not. Wouldn&#8217;t it be easier to <STRONG>use the same tool the team is already plugged into<\/STRONG>? If that tool is Polarion, you&#8217;re good to go.<\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Polarion not only helps you to manage your Requirements, Test Cases and Defects&#8230;&nbsp;<\/STRONG><STRONG>it&#8217;s so flexible you can even use it to manage your organization&#8217;s vacation planning!<\/STRONG><br \/>\n<DIV><!--more--><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV>With the help of this new project template, <EM>Vacation Administration and Approval Project Template<\/EM>,&nbsp;you can:<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n\t<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Always see how many days you&#8217;ve got left in your active Vacation Plan<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>Request Vacation online using Polarion and get immediate feedback from your boss.<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>Use Polarion&#8217;s easy approvals feature to confirm or deny vacation requests<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>Restrict access to your vacation by using separate spaces for each user<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>(Optional) Get automated Gmail-Calendar entries for each vacation Request<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><B>Here&#8217;s how the workflow looks:<br \/>\n<IMG alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/polarion\/extensions\/wi-attachment\/PolarionExtensions\/PE-548\/8-screenshot-5.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"494\" \/><B><\/B><\/B><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">Included are detailed installation instructions &amp; How-To guide.<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><B>&nbsp;<\/B><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><STRONG>The Vacation Administration and Approval Project Template&nbsp;is FREE and available now on the Polarion POP Extensions site:<\/STRONG><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"width: auto; margin: 18px 15%; padding: 1em 0; background-color: #eee; border: 1px solid #ccc; font-size: 140%; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;\"><A href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/polarion\/extensions\/extension.jsp?extension=PE-548\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">GET IT NOW!<\/A><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer means vacations. 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