Business Process Dates and Calendars

The system supports multiple calendars, enabling the Administrator to create a library of calendars that can be selected for use at the Company or project/shell levels. The multiple calendars let you have calendars to support varying work schedules (depending on locality) and to account for holidays and other non-working days. For example, some countries in the Middle East have weekends that are other than Saturday and Sunday.

Calendars affect the calculation of both business process workflow due dates and task due dates, and formula calculations. When the calendar changes for the Company, or for the project/shell, any subsequent computation of dates will use the new or changed calendar. Dates are not affected for records that are in process. The Date Picker and the Date Only Picker will show the changed calendar.

Behavior of the Due Date (due_date) Field

In the Workflow Settings field in the Workflow Setup of a BP, if the Override Workflow Due Date field is set as Yes, you can edit the due date in the creation step. If the Override Workflow Due Date field is set as No, you cannot edit the due date in the creation step. Also, you cannot edit the Due Date if the work has started or the work has moved to the next step (is in-flight) in the workflow process.

When you create workflow BP records through file imports (CSV or Microsoft Excel), the system currently sets the Due Date automatically based on the Workflow Settings; the Due Date provided in the input file is ignored. Also, when you update workflow BP records through file imports (CSV or Microsoft Excel), the system uses the Due Date that was based on the Workflow Settings and ignores the Due Date provided in the input file.

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