Requests

Review and action leave requests submitted by workspace members.

Requests is where you review all submitted leave requests of members within your workspace.

Tip

HR is an Enterprise-plan feature. It can also be switched off on Enterprise by an Owner or Admin under Settings → Workspace → Features. Either way the HR pages leave your sidebar, and opening one directly takes you to the Dashboard with a note explaining which of the two applies.

Note

As an admin, it's important to action requests in good time so your team can plan ahead and employees know where they stand. Keeping requests up to date also helps maintain an accurate view of team availability across projects and upcoming work.

Overview of the Requests page with pending leave requests.

What you can do here

Approve leave — confirm the request. The employee is notified by email and in-app.
Decline leave — reject the request. The employee is notified.
Request document — ask the employee for additional context or supporting documentation before making a decision. You can add an optional note explaining your request.
Review cancellation requests — if a member has asked to cancel leave that was already approved, you'll see Approve cancellation and Decline cancellation buttons in place of the usual Approve/Decline. Declining means the leave stays booked as-is.

Warning

You can't action your own request. Trellis refuses an approve, decline, or cancellation review on anything you submitted yourself, whatever your role — someone else has to review it.

Note

A workspace Owner's leave is approved the moment they submit it, so their requests never reach this queue for an Admin to action. Their cancellation requests do appear, and an Admin can approve or decline those — the Owner has already asked for the cancellation, so confirming it isn't self-review.

Clash detection

Before approving a request, Trellis flags any potential clashes with other team members' approved or pending leave on the same projects. Select See conflicts to open a timeline view of who else is off and when, so you can cross-check resource allocation, review project coverage, and consider whether key team members can be away at the same time.

Conflicts view showing overlapping leave across the team.

If a request would take the member over their total leave allowance for the year, you'll see an Exceeds allocation badge on their row so you know before you approve.

Who can do what

Action	Owner	Admin
View the Requests page
Approve, decline, or request documents on a leave request	^*	^*
Approve or decline a cancellation request	^*	^*

* Never on your own request — Trellis refuses self-review whatever your role.

Access to Requests is restricted to Owners and Admins. Other roles can't view or action leave requests, and nobody — Owner included — can action their own.