Working Calendar Management

Overview

Working calendars are linked to contracts and are used in day to day processing of work items to help determine precise due dates (for example when 'working hours' are involved, the precise working hours associated with the relevant calendar (e.g. 9am-5pm) are taken into account in the calculation. Similarly, non-working days are skipped when determining due dates.

This video gives you a quick overview of working calendars:

Working calendars can be accessed from the link in the toolbar. This will bring up the Calendars screen which will display a list of all system working calendars.

Clicking on a particular calendar will open up its details on the right hand side:

Creating a new working calendar

To create a calendar, click the '+' at the top of the page.

The following attributes can be set for a calendar:

Attribute	Description	Notes
Name	Enter a name for the working calendar	Mandatory
Time zone	Select the time zone for the working calendar from the standard list of time zones.	Mandatory.
Description	Description for the calendar
Non-Working Days	A list of days throughout the year which are not working days (e.g. national holidays).	These will not be considered when calculating working times.
Start and Finishing Time	The starting and finishing times of the day during the work day.	These times are used when calculating due dates which reference working time.

Editing a working calendar

To edit a working calendar, simply select the calendar from the list, update detailed information as desired and hit ‘Save’.

You can see previous edits that have been made to a calendar by clicking on the Show Activity button.

You are also able to clone a calendar by clicking on the Clone button. This will clone all of the calendar's settings apart from its name. You are then able to make changes to any of the settings once the calendar has been cloned.

Deleting a working calendar

To delete a working calendar, select the calendar that is to be deleted from the list and hit ‘Delete’.