> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Leave

> Members ask for time off, your team answers, and quotas know about it automatically.

People need time away. Cove gives them somewhere to ask that isn't a direct
message your team forgets, and gives your team one list to work through.

<Frame caption="Leave requests waiting to be answered.">
  <img src="https://cdn.coveapp.cc/docs/images/team/leave.png" alt="Manage Leaves" />
</Frame>

## Asking for it

A member opens **My Leave**, picks a reason, sets the dates, and adds a note if
there is something worth saying. Reasons carry an icon so a queue of requests
is scannable — a holiday and a medical absence shouldn't need reading to tell
apart. A member sees their own leave and nobody else's.

## Answering it

**Manage Leaves** is the queue. It lives with the day-to-day rather than behind
Settings, because working a queue is a job somebody does, not a setting
somebody configures.

| Action    | Effect                                           |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| Approve   | Leave starts on the requested date               |
| Decline   | With a reason, so the member isn't left guessing |
| End early | For somebody back sooner than they planned       |

## What leave changes

| While somebody is away | What happens                                       |
| ---------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| Quotas                 | They aren't expected to meet an activity quota     |
| Roles                  | A leave role is applied, and taken back afterwards |
| Ending                 | It closes on its own, including when ended early   |

<Note>
  **Settings → Leave** controls how long leave can run for, which reasons are
  offered, and the role applied while somebody is away.
</Note>

## Permissions

Deliberately split, so the person working the queue doesn't also have to be the
person who sets the rules.

| Permission            | What it allows                                  |
| --------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| Answer leave requests | Approve, decline and end somebody's leave early |
| Change leave settings | Durations, reasons, and the leave role          |