Time away is not spare capacity
Calendar exceptions exclude their recorded intervals. Recurring commitments exclude their repeated weekday/time intervals. The scheduler works around them alongside normal patterns and breaks.
For example, a review requiring Nick and Keith waits for a productive window shared by both. Keith's leave can move that review even when Nick has time available.
Recording absence in this release
Team & capacity edits regular weekly patterns. This release does not include a general absence editor. Ask the workspace administrator to maintain the existing organisation-scoped CalendarException and RecurringCommitment records using the established database maintenance process. Do not edit another person's regular hours as a substitute for one day's leave.
After externally maintained calendar changes, use Check live forecasts in What moved or a project's history to record the new observation. Normal application scheduling edits record history automatically.
See capacity, forecast history and shared availability.