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Customizing Calendar Work Days

Siebel Open UI allows the user to specify values for the Workdays field and the Week Start field. It uses the user preferences that reference the Locale values, by default. It stores the following items:

• Stores locale preferences in the Locale table (S_LOCALE).
• Stores user preferences as predefault values from Locale values.
• Stores user preferences in the user preferences file.

If the user sets the user preference for the Weekly Calendar View to Work Week, then Siebel Open UI displays only the days that are specified as workdays. This preference can be specified at several levels, so Siebel Open UI uses the following priority:

1. Personal user preference.
2. Locale preference for the current user locale.
3. Applet user property. This property provides high interactivity support.
4. If none of these items are set, then Siebel Open UI displays the Monday through Friday, five day workweek.

If the set of visible days does not include the First Day of Week preference, then Siebel Open UI displays the next visible day. For example, if the user uses a Monday through Friday, five-day workweek, and if the First Day of Week is Saturday, then Siebel Open UI displays Monday as the first day of the week in the Work Week calendar. It does this because Monday is the first visible day that occurs after Saturday.

You can define a default value for all users according to the locale, but a user can override this value. For example, assume the following:

• The existing Work Week setting for all users is Monday through Friday, as determined by the Locale settings that the Siebel administrator sets.
• A set of users work Monday through Friday.
• Another set of users who provide weekend support work Wednesday through Sunday.
• Each weekend user logs into the Siebel client and uses the User Preferences Calendar view to set their Wednesday through Sunday schedule. Siebel Open UI stores this modification in the user preferences file.

In this situation, Siebel Open UI does the following:

• Displays Monday through Friday for each user who does not use the User Preferences Calendar view to modify their preference
• Displays Wednesday through Sunday for each user who uses the User Preferences Calendar view to modify their preference