Use the Calendar dialog box to view and edit a global, project, or resource calendar.
Total work hours/day: Displays the number of work hours defined for the selected day in the Work hours/day area.
Detailed work hours/day: Displays the number of work hours and nonwork hours defined for the selected workday in the Work hours area.
< (Previous timeperiod): Displays either the previous month or the previous year, depending on your current display.
Month/Year: Displays the month and year currently selected for the calendar. Click to display a different month in the displayed year.
> (Next timeperiod): Displays either the next month or the next year, depending on your current display.
Month: Displays the selected month for the displayed year.
Day: Displays the selected day for the displayed year. Click to select the entire column (that day every week).
Date: Displays a numerical date.
Work hours/day or Work hours: The number of work hours for the selected date, if the Total work hours/day option is chosen above, or the number of work hours and nonwork hours for the selected date, if the Detailed work hours/day option is chosen. For Work hours/day, you can enter or select a different number. For Total work hours/day, you can select new work and nonwork hours by clicking a specific hour and then clicking Work or Nonwork.
Inherit holidays and exceptions from Global Calendar: The name of the calendar on which the open calendar is based. You can select a new calendar. This field is disabled for your personal resource calendar.
Work: Makes the selected date a workday.
Nonwork: Makes the selected date a nonworkday.
Standard: Makes the selected date a normal workday with the default number of workhours.
Workweek: Opens the Calendar Weekly Hours dialog box and enables you to change the default number of workhours for a weekday in the open calendar.
Time Periods: Opens the Hours per Time Period dialog box and enables you to define the calendar's default number of hours per timeperiod. 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
- If the open calendar is a project or resource calendar derived from a global calendar, a globe symbol may display in the calendar dates. This indicates an exception to the number of default work hours for that weekday in the global calendar.
- If you change the number of workhours, the selected date will be displayed in a different color if the workhours are different from the weekly default workhours.
- When connected to a P6 Professional database: Fields in this dialog box are disabled if the "Use assigned calendar to specify the number of work hours for each time period" checkbox on the Admin Preferences, Time Periods tab, is not marked. If this checkbox is not marked, default hours per time period settings are defined on the Admin Preferences, Time Periods tab.
When connected to a P6 EPPM database: Fields in this dialog box are disabled if the "Use assigned calendar to specify the number of work hours for each time period" checkbox, accessed from the P6 Application Settings, is not marked. If this checkbox is not marked, default hours per time period settings are defined from the P6 Application Settings.
Note
- The Inherit Holidays and Exceptions from Global Calendar field is enabled only if the open calendar is a project or resource calendar.