Vacations
Bloggers can request time off from your store, and you can review those requests from the Blog Dashboard.
A blogger can request a vacation period from your store. You review pending requests from the Vacation requests tile on the Blog Dashboard and accept or decline each one. Vacation status for accepted requests appears alongside other per-blogger information in Managing Bloggers.
Requesting a vacation
A blogger requests a vacation from a store on bloggers.allomancy.com, from that store's Store options page. The action button reads Request vacation.
Choose a date range
The dialog asks the blogger to choose a vacation date range using a date range picker. The default range starts today and ends one month from today, and the blogger can adjust both ends.
Add a reason
Use Info / Reason to explain the request.
Send the request
Click Request to submit. Request is enabled once the date range is valid.
Reviewing vacation requests
In the Blog Dashboard, click the Vacation requests tile to open the Vacation Requests page at stores.allomancy.com/blog/vacation-requests.
The list shows pending, accepted, and rejected requests together; the Status column distinguishes them.
The table has these columns:
- Blogger: the blogger's username.
- Start Date: the requested start date.
- End Date: the requested end date.
- Reason: the blogger's free-form reason text.
- Status: plain text, one of "Accepted", "Rejected", or "Pending".
- Action: opens pending requests for review.
Reviewing an individual request
Click on a pending request to open the vacation review dialog.
The body has two parts:
- A Start Date and End Date block showing the requested dates, formatted like
MMM d, yyyy. - A Reason label above a scrollable, whitespace-preserving block with the blogger's reason text.
Click Decline to decline the request, or Accept to accept it.
This flow uses Decline. Other Blog review flows use Reject (Applications, Posts) or Deny (Extension requests). The terminology differs across flows but the meaning is the same: the request is not granted.
After a decision
An accepted vacation appears in the blogger list and on the blogger's profile, as documented in Managing Bloggers:
- The bloggers list shows a vacation indicator next to the blogger's username while the vacation is currently active.
- The blogger's detail page shows an On Vacation badge while the vacation is currently active.
- The End vacation action on the detail page lets you end the vacation early.
Permissions
The Vacation requests page lives under the Blog Dashboard, which is gated by the Manage Bloggers permission. To grant or restrict that permission, see Store Managers. For the broader blogger program context, see Blogger Management.
Related pages
Blogger Management
Overview of the blogger program, the Blog Dashboard, and the blogger-facing site.
Managing Bloggers
Blogger list and profile details, including the on-vacation indicator and the End vacation action.
Store Managers
Add staff and grant the Manage Bloggers permission for the Blog Dashboard.