Block leave feautre and specific leave dates

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• 04 Sep, '23
  Brendon Merged

  Hello, is it possible to automatically block certain dates for employees to request leave. Therefore, if the date is blocked, the employee get's an alert advising them they cannot take leave during that time. For example, a leave embargo?

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• 09 Nov, '23
  Rob Merged

  Each business will have a mixture of Full time and casual staff. being able to tailor each employee profile by adding the leave options available to them will minimise the corrective measures. 15 year old casuals don't have access to Annual Leave or any of the more obscure leave types but given the chance they will select them which then involves a back and forth text conversation for them to resubmit their leave correctly. Completely avoidable

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• 19 Dec, '23
  Simon Admin Merged

  Thanks for the idea Brendon. We have moved this to under consideration for NY development.

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• 19 Dec, '23
  Simon Admin Merged

  Thanks for suggestion, it has been moved to under consideration.

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• 30 Jul, '24
  Sarah Merged

  Adding to this as well, restricting employees from being able to put in availabilities under the radar during a week where the roster has already been started. Late notice

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• 08 Oct, '24
  Jess Merged

  Holiday leave that can be added and then applied to whole roster. i.e business closed for Christmas break or a public holiday. Can add the leave once, apply it to all staff and then it will rule out everyone of those days in the roster.

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• 09 Oct, '24
  Gio Admin Merged

  Hi Jess
  
  Thanks for being part of our community!
  
  We have now merged this feature request to an existing one on the board for voting from the community!
  
  Have a great day and happy rostering!
  
  The RosterElf Team

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• 09 Oct, '24
  Gio System Merged

  "Holiday Leave that applies to whole roster" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-10-08), including upvotes (1) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 06 Feb, '25
  Debra Merged

  PLEASE add this feature ASAP! It's driving me insane and it would be so much easier if this was integrated into this system.

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• 14 Jul, '25
  Eliza Merged

  Ability to block out certain dates so people cannot apply for annual leave in a block out period. For our business we cannot allow any annual leave for certain dates due to operational requirements, it would be preferable for us to block these out at the beginning of the year to avoid team members applying for dates that won’t be approved

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• 18 Jul, '25
  Sean Wyse Admin Merged

  Hi Eliza,
  
  Thank you for your great suggestion on blocking leave dates.
  
  This suggestion has already been posted so I am going to merge your request into the existing feature request so you can keep track of it's progress.
  
  Thank you for being part of our growing community.
  
  Many thanks
  The Rosterelf Team

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• 18 Jul, '25
  Sean Wyse System Merged

  "Annual Leave Block Out Dates" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-07-14), including upvotes (1) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 14 Aug, '25
  Sean Wyse Admin

  Hi Larna,
  
  Thanks for your suggestion on blocking the leave feature for staff.
  
  This is now live for other users to comment and upvote it.
  
  Many thanks
  The Rosterelf Team

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• 14 Aug, '25
  Sean Wyse System Merged

  "Limit the leave types or option available at individual staff profile level" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2023-11-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 14 Aug, '25
  Sean Wyse System

  "Block leave dates" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2023-09-04), including upvotes (66) and comments (12), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 02 Oct, '25
  Lucas Merged

  Option to block the availability feature

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• 03 Oct, '25
  Sean Wyse System

  "Block availability" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-10-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 14 Oct, '25
  debra

  Here again, hoping this feature will be added ASAP! I like using roster elf but this feature really needs to be added. Theres other apps out there with this feature.

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• 16 Oct, '25
  Kira Merged

  Change the availability blocks to partial leave requests so that it can be approved and seen within the requested leave, rather than staff just being able to change their availability at any time.

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• 18 Oct, '25
  Sean Wyse System

  "Ability to remove the availability block option" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-10-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 11 Nov, '25
  Poon Lai Merged

  I want an option to disable staff from updating their own availability.

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• 12 Nov, '25
  Sean Wyse System

  "Option to disable staff from updating their own availability" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-11-11), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 21 Nov, '25
  Ash Merged

  Our team adjust their availability rather than request leave to avoid the approval process. Our staff we hire with good availability cut it back shortly after they are hired

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• 28 Nov, '25
  Sean Wyse System

  "If staff availability can only be adjusted after manager approval" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-11-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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