Leave Master


Through this form you can add and delete leaves and update leave information. Though most of the leave types for most of the organization for a fixed set of leave types, those universal set of leaves are not enough to define all the leave types an organization might have. Through the combination of parameters such as Leave Period, Pay Period and Shift Period, it is possible to define all the leave types into the system. This form gives flexibility to add leave types are required and in use in the company.

Here Leave Id is the primary key of the leave type.

Leave Name is for human recognition of leave type. It should be less than or equal to eight characters for formatting in reports.

Leave Period is the period in terms of days for which employee will not report in the company. Typical value of this field is 1.

Pay Period is the time period when person goes on leave of this type, he is entitled the pay of this period in terms of day. Normally this would be equal to Leave Period. In typical cases such as half sick leave, person remains on leave for full day and is compensated for half day only, though Leave Period is 1 the pay period is 0.5.

Work Period is the time period, when the person is on duty, but can not give time events, this type of leave can be applied. In such cases, person works at some other place. The work Period is the equivalent of period for this in terms of day. E.g. in Leave on Duty, person is absent in office, but working somewhere else. To count that in Work Days, the Work Period for this leave type can be 1.



Click on Master >> Holiday (Alt + M + L) to open Leave form.

Add Leave:

  • Click on New button (Alt + N) to add new entry to master.
  • Enter Leave ID, Leave Name, Leave Period, Pay Period, Work Period
  • Any of above field should not contain more than 8 characters for formatting reasons of reports.
  • Click on Add (Alt + A) button to save that entry.

Edit Leave:

  • Select Leave from the list.
  • Click on Edit button (Alt + E) to edit selected entry.
  • Click on Save button (Alt + S) to save edited information. You can here edit only Holiday Date and Name.

Delete Leave:

  • Select Leave from the list.
  • Click on Delete button (Alt + D) to delete selected entry from masters.

Both processes, i.e. adding new entry and editing existing entry can be aborted by clicking on Cancel (Alt + C) button.

Click on Refresh (Alt + R) button to reload the entries from database onto form.

You can export master data to Excel sheet using the Export (Alt + X) button.


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