Day of Week, Overrides, and Holidays

When you create a base calendar, you can define the days of the week on which that calendar should be used. If the calendar should be used for all or most days during the week, you can enter 0 (zero) in the Day of Week field, and specify the number of hours, using start and end times, that resources are available during each day of the week. You can then enter additional calendars for that same calendar type, calendar value, branch, and shift code combination to specify any days of the week that do not match those set up in the original base calendar.

For example, assume that all resources in Branch M30, regardless of shift, are available for 8 hours each day of the week except for Saturday and Sunday, when they are not available at all. You can create these three base calendars for this scenario:

Calendar Type	Calendar Value	Branch	Day of Week	Hours Available
RESOURCE	NORMAL	M30	0 (Default for each day of the week)	8
RESOURCE	NORMAL	M30	6 (Saturday)	0
RESOURCE	NORMAL	M30	7 (Sunday)	0

Note: The values in the Hours Available field are calculated based on the start and end times that you enter for the calendar. To calculate 0 (zero) available hours, enter 0 in both the Start Time and End Time fields.

You can also create base calendars to specify company holidays, or other days on which large numbers of resources are not available as they would normally be. To create a base calendar for a specific day, you enter 9 in the Day of Week field. For example, if resources are typically available for 8 hours on Mondays, but a company holiday falls on a Monday, you can create a base calendar for the holiday by entering 9 in the Day of Week field, entering the date of the holiday in the Date field, and entering 0 in both the Start Time and End Time fields. You must enter 9 in the Day of Week field to enable the Date field.