Edit a resource calendar

This topic is intended for the administrator who defines resource calendars.

Choose Enterprise, Calendars, then choose Resource.
Select the calendar you want to edit and click Modify.
To base the calendar on another calendar, select a new global calendar in the Inherit Holidays and Exceptions from Global Calendar field.
Choose the month you want to modify by clicking the appropriate arrow button next to the month-year title.
To add a nonworkday, click the date you want to make a nonworkday, then click Nonwork.
To change the number of hours in a specific workday, click the date you want to change.

Choose Total work hours/day to define the total working hours in each day. In the Work hours/day section, set the amount of hours available to work for a specific day.

Choose Detailed work hours/day to define which hours of the day are work or nonwork hours. In the Work hours section, select the hours you want to change and click Work or Nonwork.

If the date's display color changes to white, the number of hours you entered does not equal the default number of working hours for that weekday.
To make an exception into a workday and apply the default number of working hours to that day, click the exception you want to change, then click Standard.
To define the calendar's default hours per timeperiod, click Time Periods.or each timeperiod, enter the default number of hours.

For activities and resources to which the calendar is assigned, these values are used as conversion factors when users enter or display units and durations in time increments other than hours.

Tips

To apply the same change to all insta
nces of a specific weekday in the displayed month, click the weekday's column label.
To view a calendar's assignments, in the Calendars dialog box, select the calendar, then click Used By.
When a resource assignment has manual future period values, editing the resource's associated resource calendar may cause the manual values to change.
When connected to a P6 EPPM database: P6 and P6 Professional calculates and stores time unit values in hourly increments, but users can set preferences to display time units in other increments, such as days or weeks.
When connected to a P6 Professional database: P6 Professional calculates and stores time unit values in hourly increments, but users can set preferences to display time units in other increments, such as days or weeks.
When you define the Hours per Time Period for a calendar, these values are used to accurately convert units and durations to the selected display format for activities to which the calendar is assigned.
When connected to a P6 EPPM database: The Time Periods button is always enabled, but if the Application Settings in P6 is not marked, the fields in the Hours per Time Period dialog are disabled.
When connected to a P6 Professional database: The Time Periods button is enabled when the 'Use assigned calendar to specify the number of work hours for each time period' checkbox on the Admin Preferences, Time Periods tab is marked.

Working hours defined with decimal values other than .0 or .5 will round up or down to .0 or .5.