Book-Off Wizard window

The Book-Off Wizard window provides you with a common window for booking off individual employees using the Details Edit mode or groups of employees using the Mass Edit mode.

When booking off employees, the wizard is displayed with some information automatically inserted into the fields. The wizard includes this information:

  • Employee (read-only)
  • Shift Label (read-only)
  • Work Date (read-only)
  • Start Time and End Time (editable)
  • Book-Off Code (editable)
  • Send to Relief Queue (editable)
  • Leave Reason (editable)
  • Comments (editable)

Enforcing comments and reasons

When booking time off, you can enter comments and leave reasons. As well, MVS can be configured to enforce the entry of comments and leave reasons. Along with these activities, relief statuses associated with each leave activity can also be configured.

Employee balances

The Book-Off Wizard window also provides information about the employee's balances. The balances are displayed in the lower left corner of the wizard window. The balance is modified as the employee books and uses their vacation and sick days.

Adding an approved LTA to the Time Off Planner

When booking time off, an approved leave can be applied to an employee's schedule and the Time Off Planner on behalf of the employee. If the leave activity specified in the Book-Off Code field is mapped to a time off type, then an approved LTA will be added to the Time Off Planner.

For example, the administrator has mapped the VAC activity to the VAC (vacation) time off type. If you book off an employee from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM using the VAC activity, then an approved leave using the VAC time off type is added to the Time Off Planner from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

If the leave activity specified in the Book-Off Code field is not mapped to a time off type, then an approved LTA is not added to the Time Off Planner.

Note: If the time off type is recallable, then any approved LTAs added on behalf of the employee can be recalled. See Recalling approved time off requests.

For more information on the Time Off Planner, see the Infor Workforce Management Time Off Planner User Guide.

Non-MVS book-offs

The Book-Off Wizard window also displays shifts and leaves from outside of MVS. These shifts and leaves are view-only and cannot be booked off in the wizard.