Calendar Details Dialog Box

Overview

Use this dialog box to view the details of a calendar being imported and compare the details between the calendar in the import file and the version in your database. On the exceptions tab, you can analyze whether there are differences between the exceptions defined in the version of the calendar in your database and the version in the import file.

Screen Elements

Source list

Displays the source of the calendar you are viewing. If a calendar with the same name exists in both the import file and database, this list allows you to select whether to view the details of the calendar from the import file or the database.

Import File: Shows the details of the version of the calendar that exists in the import file.

Database: Shows the details of the version of the calendar that exists in the database.

Summary tab

Standard Work Week area:

Standard Work Week table

Enables you to see an overview of the work time periods configured for each day of the week in the calendar.

Base Calendar area:

Base Calendar field

The global calendar that is assigned to the calendar to determine work days, nonwork days (for example, global holidays), and calendar exceptions.

For example, multinational corporations will have one or more global calendars per country to represent global holidays for each region. Exceptions are used when the standard work day is modified.

Time Periods area:

Hours per Time Period fields

The values that will be used as conversion factors when users choose to display time units and durations in units other than hours.

Calendar tab

Today button

Returns to the current day, week, month, or year.

Previous

Displays the previous day, week, month, or year.

Next

Displays the next day, week, month, or year.

Day button

Displays a single day view.

Week button

Displays a single week view.

Month button

Displays a single month view.

Year button

Displays a single calendar year view.

 Print

Opens the Print Options dialog box.

Calendar View area

Enables you to view a day, week, month, or year of the calendar to identify standard time, nonwork time and calendar exceptions.

Standard Work Week tab

 Print

Opens the Print Options dialog box.

Day label

The name of each day.

Total Hours field

The total number of work hours for each day.

Calendar View area

Enables you to view a day, week, month, or year of the calendar to identify standard time, nonwork time and calendar exceptions.

Work Period display

Displays a box that represents each work period in a day. If you change the number of hours covered by the work period boxes for a day, P6 updates the Total Hours field.

Exception tab

Start Date field

The date of the period or range.

End Date field

The last day of the period or range.

Group By list

Enables you to group items in the table. Grouping gathers, or groups, together all of the data that contain the same value for the selected data field.

Select Source to group the list according to the calendar source (Import File or Database), Date (Months) to group by calendar month of exceptions, or None to view the exceptions as a flat list.

 Print

Opens the Print Options dialog box.

Date field

The date of the calendar exception.

Time Period field

The start and end time of the calendar exception.

In Database option

Indicates whether the row item exists in the database into which you are importing the file.

From Import File option

Indicates whether the row item exists in the import file.

 Download

Enables you to download the data as an Excel file. For hierarchical data, the top level and any expanded levels are downloaded. For flat lists, all rows are downloaded.

Getting Here

  1. On the  Navigation Menu, expand  Projects and click EPS.
  2. On the EPS page, click the Actions menu and select Import/Export Projects.
  3. In the Import/ExportProjects dialog box:
    1. Click the Import tab.
    2. Click the Import Type list and select Primavera XML.
    3. Click the File field and select a file to import.
    4. Click the Manage Templates button.
  4. In the Manage Primavera Templates dialog box, click the name of a template.
  5. In the Primavera Template dialog box, click the Advanced tab.
  6. On the Advanced tab, click the Calendars tab.
  7. On the Calendars tab, click  View Calendar Details.

Last Published Thursday, April 23, 2026