5.2.2 Holiday Calendars

This section discusses the procedure to create a Holiday Calendar and generate a list of the weekend and holiday dates. Individual Cloud Service may consume the Holiday Calendar events in different ways.

A Holiday is a day designated as having special significance for which individuals, a government, or some religious groups have deemed that observance is warranted and thus no business is carried on this day. The Holiday Calendar Code can range from 1 to 99999.

The Generate Holiday Calendar option on the Holiday Calendar Definition page allows you to generate the maximum 80 Holiday Calendar definitions at a time. Using the Scheduler Service, you can generate the Holiday Calendar definitions in bulk. For more information, see the Data Loader section.

Holiday Calendar Summary

This page is the gateway to all Holiday Calendars and related functionality. You can navigate to other pages relating to Holiday Calendars from this point.

Figure 5-21 Holiday Calendar Summary

Search Holiday Calendar Rule

Prerequisites: Predefined Holiday Calendar

To search for a Holiday Calendar:

Click Search after entering the search criteria. The search results are displayed in a table containing all the Holiday Calendars that meet the search criteria.

Or

An alternative method to search a Holiday Calendar rule is through the Field Search option. This is an inline wildcard UI search that allows you to enter a search value (such as code, name, etc.) partially or fully. Rows that contain the string you are searching for are fetched and displayed in the Holiday Calendar Summary. You can enter the Code, Name, and Description of the Holiday Calendar and click Search .

The Holiday Calendar rule Summary displays the following information:

Add: Click the Add icon on the page header to build a new Holiday Calendar rule.

• Code: The code of Holiday Calendar
• Name: The Holiday Calendar's short name.
• Created Date: The Date when Holiday Calendar was created.
• Created By: The Name of the user who created the Holiday Calendar
• Last Modified By: The user who last modified the Holiday Calendar rule.
• Last Modified Date: The Date and Time when the Holiday Calendar rule was last modified.
• Access Type: The access type of the rule. It can be Read-Only or Read/Write.
• Action: Click this icon to view a list of actions that you can perform on the Holiday Calendar rule.
  • Multiple Delete: Enables you to select and delete one or multiple rules in the table simultaneously.
  • View/Edit: Based on the user privilege assigned, you can either only view or edit existing Holiday Calendar rules. To edit a rule, you must have Read/Write privilege.
  • Save As: You can reuse a Holiday Calendar rule by saving it under a new name thus saving time and effort in entering data multiple times; it also leads to reduced data entry errors.
  • Delete: You can delete Holiday Calendar rules that you no longer require. Note that only Holiday Calendar rule owners and those with Read/Write privileges can delete Holiday Calendar rules. A Holiday Calendar rule that has a dependency cannot be deleted.
  • Dependency Check: You can perform a dependency check to know where a particular Holiday Calendar rule has been used. Before deleting a rule, it is always a good practice to do a dependency check to ensure you are not deleting Holiday Calendar rules that have dependencies. . A report of all rules that utilize the selected Holiday Calendar rule is generated.

    Note:

    This is functionality will intended for a future release.

Also See:

• Create Holiday Calendar