The Notifications Tab

In the Notifications tab of Vacation Bidding Setup, you create notification records to inform your employees when their bidding rounds or bidding windows begin and end, and the status of their vacation requests. You do this by adding individual vacation bidding notifications to the notification record and customizing the notification’s text, subject line, and delivery schedule:

The side panel shows all of the notification records configured for your organization.

The Notifications tab is divided into the following sections:

• General: In this panel, you configure the notification record’s name, description, and reference code.
• Messages: In this section, you configure the notifications that are associated with the notification record. You also configure the notifications’ customized text, subject line, and delivery schedule.

General panel settings

Setting	Description
Name	The notification record name.
Description	A description for the notification record.
Reference Code	A reference code for the notification record. This code must be unique and must not contain special characters.

The Messages section shows a list of the notifications that are configured for the notification record. You can click the arrow to expand a notification row. When the notification row is expanded, Dayforce opens the Notification Message and Notification Schedules tabs, where you customize the notification text and configure when the application sends the notification to employees:

Note: Depending on the notification that you’re configuring, the Notification Schedules tab might be grayed out and unavailable. This means that you can’t customize the notification’s scheduled delivery. The Notification Schedules tab is available only for notifications that inform employees about their bidding round or bidding window start and end dates. These include the Bidding Round Start, Bidding Round End, Bidding Window Start, and Bidding Window End notifications.

Messages section settings

Setting	Description
Event	The notification to configure. The following notifications are available: Bidding Round Start (default selection) Bidding Round End Bidding Round Void Bidding Window Start Bidding Window End Request Approved Request Cancelled Request Denied
Subject	The subject line of the notification that Dayforce sends to the employee.
Notification Message tab
Notification Message	The customized text for the notification. The field contains additional icons with which you can align, style, and format your text.
Token	Supported tokens that you can add to the notification text. After you’ve made a selection in the list, click Insert to add the token to the text field. For information about the tokens that are available in this drop-down list, see Vacation Bidding Notification Tokens.
Notification Schedules tab
Number of Days / Number of Hours (required)	Dictates when Dayforce notifies employees about the start and end times of bidding rounds or bidding windows. The number you enter in this field differs depending on the notification you selected: Bidding Round Start: The number of days before or after a bidding round starts that the notification is sent out. Bidding Round End: The number of days before a bidding round ends that the notification is sent out. Bidding Window Start: The number of hours before or after a bidding window starts that the notification is sent out. Bidding Window End: The number of hours before a bidding window ends that the notification is sent out. The number you enter is used in tandem with the option that you select in the Selection drop-down list to dictate the notification’s delivery schedule.
Selection	Dictates when the notification is sent out. The options in this drop-down list differ based on the notification that you’re configuring. The Bidding Round Start notification contains the following options: Days before bidding round starts Days after bidding round starts The Bidding Round End notification contains the following option: Days before bidding round ends The Bidding Window Start notification contains the following options: Hours before bidding window opens Hours after bidding window opens The Bidding Window End notification contains the following option: Hours before bidding window closes Your selection, combined with the number entered in the Number of Days or Number of Hours field, dictates the notification’s delivery schedule.

As described above, the Notification Schedules tab shows different labels and options depending on the notification that you’re configuring. Further, some notifications can’t be scheduled, so the Notification Schedules tab is grayed out when you select them. The following table outlines the settings Dayforce shows based on your notification selection and which vacation bidding session types support the notifications:

Notification logic and support

Notification	Settings Shown in the Notification Schedules Tab	Supported Session Type
Bidding Round Start	The Number of Days field. The Selection drop-down list, with the following options: Days before bidding round starts Days after bidding round starts	Concurrent
Bidding Round End	The Number of Days field. The Selection drop-down list, with the following option: Days before bidding round ends	Concurrent
Bidding Window Start	The Number of Hours field. The Selection drop-down list, with the following options: Hours before bidding window opens Hours after bidding window opens	Sequential
Bidding Window End	The Number of Hours field. The Selection drop-down list, with the following option: Hour before bidding window closes	Sequential
Bidding Round Void	N/A	Concurrent and Sequential
Request Approved	N/A	Concurrent and Sequential
Request Cancelled	N/A	Concurrent and Sequential
Request Denied	N/A	Concurrent and Sequential