Hi Joe,

Here's a brief description of the feature:

An additional, temporary "Manager" role can be assigned to a user in another user's context. This additional role takes precedence over the current manager, i.e totara_get_manager() returns the temporary manager for a user. Having the additional Manager role ensures the current manager still has access to all functionality for a team member, but all manager tasks that require action will be delegated to the temporary manager. This also means that all alerts will go to the temporary manager as well. The configuration (enabling/disabling, defaults, who can be temp managers) for for this functionality can be found on the "User Policies" admin configuration page. The functionality can be found on the Primary Position page for a user, where a temporary manager and an expiry date can be set. Setting a temporary manager or changing the expiry date will send out alerts to all relevant parties: current manager, temporary manager and staff member. Permissions allow for temporary manager assignment by either staff member themselves, or another user with the totara/core:delegateownmanager permission (or both). Temporary manager expiry and cleanup tasks is handled via a cron job.

Hope that helps,

Simon