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You shouldn’t get in touch with that table normally. Just in case you need to check the respective database table for user absences, you can have a look at this table.
Settings
You can find the settings page in the manage apps section on the left sidebar.
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You can define groups or individual users who are permitted to add and edit absences for other users. This might be useful if someone from your team is responsible for maintaining absences for the entire team and not every users should do that individually.
Furthermore, the auto comment feature, which is adding a comment if an assigned user is not in, can be switched off completely. If auto comment is disabled, users can’t set the auto comment in the settings in the user absence planner. The respective checkbox is disabled in that case.
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