Edit a Pending Vacation Bidding Session

To edit a pending vacation bidding session:

1. Go to Vacation Bidding > Vacation Bidding Sessions.
2. In the list of vacation bidding sessions, select a session that’s marked Pending in the Session Status field.
3. Click Edit. Dayforce opens a wizard that contains the session’s details.
4. In the Vacation Bidding Session Details screen, update the following settings:
   • Edit the name and description of the session.
   • Select or clear the Auto-Approve checkbox.
   • Select or clear the Display Temporary Closures on Bidding Calendar checkbox.
   • Add or remove vacation bidding subgroups, if available.
5. Note: You can’t edit the session type or vacation bidding group that’s associated with the session.
5. Click Next.
6. In the Select Calendar Period and Limits screen, update the following settings, as necessary:
   • Edit the Set limits as selection: choose either Employees Required or Employees Allowed Off.
   • Edit the value in the Default Day Limit field.
   • (Optional) Add a value in the Maximum Bid Requests field, or edit the existing value in the field.
   • If subgroups are configured for the session, edit the values in the Limit column.
   • In the calendar, click days that are eligible for vacation to override the default vacation limit for the day, or to remove the limit. You can edit or remove limits that are applied to the vacation bidding group and vacation bidding subgroups (if configured).
   • Note: You can’t edit the calendar period that’s associated with the session.
7. Click Next. Dayforce shows the Select Rounds screen, which contains settings that can’t be edited.
8. Click Next.
9. In the Verify Employee List screen, edit the following settings for each round in the Employee List section, as necessary:
   • To manually edit the employee bidding order, select names in the list and click the Move Up and Move Down buttons to edit the hierarchy.
   • To exclude employees from the bidding round, select the Exclude Employee checkboxes for each employee.
10. Click Next.
11. If you’re editing a concurrent vacation bidding session that’s pending, skip ahead to step 13.
12. If you’re editing a sequential vacation bidding session that’s pending, configure the following settings in the Sequential Bidding Configuration screen:
    • In the Details panel, edit the dates in the Bidding Window Start and Bidding Window End fields.
    • Note: The Bidding Window Start date can’t be earlier than the first submission round’s start date, and the Bidding Window End date can’t be later than the final submission round’s end date.
    • Edit the times in the Earliest Start and Latest End fields.
    • Specify a different time increment value in the Time Increment field.
    • Select an alternative time unit in the Unit drop-down list.
    • Select or clear the checkboxes in the Days of Week section.
    • In the Employee List section, click the appropriate Bidding Window Start field to edit the bidding window start date and time. To edit the bidding window end date and time, click the appropriate Bidding Window End field.
    • Alternatively, click the Generate button and select Generate for current round or Generate for all rounds. These functions populate the bidding window start and end fields using the default settings that you configured in the Details panel.
12. Click Next.
13. In the Review Configuration and Complete screen, review the vacation bidding session details that you’ve edited and do one of the following:
    • If you’re satisfied with the session details, click Finish.
    • If you want to continue editing the session’s details, click Previous until you reach the details that you want to edit.