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Schedule info widget

The Schedule info widget contains information such as statutory holidays, blocked time off days, and schedule memos

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Written by Celayix Support
Updated over 3 months ago

The Schedule info widget can be used to indicate important information such as statutory holidays, blocked time off days, and schedule memos in your schedule.

It contains information on whether:

  • There is a statutory holiday on this day.

  • Time off requests are blocked on this day.

  • If any schedule memos have been added for this day to remind schedulers of important information.

The Schedule info widget presents as an information icon next to the date in your schedule

In this article, we'll look into the following on the Schedule info widget in Schedule Xpress:

Statutory holidays in your schedule

Time off requests blocked

Schedule memo


Statutory holidays in your schedule

Any day that falls on a statutory holiday will be highlighted in red on your schedule.

Statutory days are highlighted in red in your schedule

For more information on what the holiday is, you can click the Schedule info widget.

You can click the Schedule info widget to find out what the statutory holiday is

Time off requests blocked

Time off requests blocked allows admins to prevent employees from requesting time off on certain dates.

This can be found in Schedule Xpress, under Settings > Security > Additional Employee settings > Employee Time off settings.

Time off requests blocked in Additional employee settings

You can use this feature to add any dates you want to block your employees from being able to request time off for. If they do attempt to request time off for a blocked date, they will receive an error message in their Team Xpress app.

Choosing your dates for time off requests to be blocked

If a day in your schedule is blocked for time off requests, it will also be shown in the Schedule info widget.

Time off requests shown as blocked in the schedule

The employee will receive the following error if they attempt to book time off on a blocked date.

Time off request is blocked from an employee in their Team Xpress app

Schedule memo

The Schedule memo can be used for communicating important information that you may require other users to see.

If there is a special event that other users need to be made aware of, you can warn them prior to making any schedule changes to ensure this information is considered.

Schedule memo in the Schedule info widget in Schedule Xpress

Adding a Schedule memo

If there isn't a statutory holiday, a time off request blocked, or a schedule memo written, then the schedule info widget will be hidden. You can hover near the date to click the + sign to add a schedule memo.

If you don't have a statutory holiday, time off request blocked or schedule memo written, you can click the + sign to add a schedule memo

Schedule memos in feature access

You can decide the level of access a user has to Schedule memos inside of their Feature access group.

You can choose which level of access your users have for schedule memos in their feature access group

If you have any questions regarding the Schedule info widget, then please contact support now!

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