5.5 Holiday Exceptions

You can specify exceptions to the holidays. As a prerequisite, a holiday calendar should be properly defined and the status of the holiday calendar should be Processed in the summary page. Generating the holiday list will populate the holidays (weekends, fixed and moving) along with the working days. The Show Exceptions button is enabled in the detail page. Any changes in the holiday definition will disable the Show Exceptions button. You must generate the holiday list again to define or view the exceptions.

1. Click Show Exceptions in the Holiday Exceptions grid. The Holiday Exceptions window opens.
2. The search block in the Exceptions page has the following:
   1. From (Year), To (Year) : Denotes the range of years which is a subset out of the holiday list generated, for which exceptions are required to be defined.
   2. Fixed Holidays: You can filter the list of holidays by the type of Fixed Holidays.
   3. Moving Holidays: You can filter the list of holidays by the type of Moving Holidays.
   4. Holiday Date: For a particular known holiday date, exceptions can bedefined.
   5. All Exceptions: This check box lists all the exceptions when selected, if already defined, for the holidays within the From, To Date range.

      The search result gives the list of all holidays based on the selection of the search criteria fields.

3. In the Holiday Exceptions block, there are two types of exceptions that can be defined: Not a holiday and Shift to.
4. Any holiday can be marked as not a holiday, in which case that day is removed from the Holiday List. If the drop-down list in the Exception type is selected as "Not a Holiday", then the "Shift To" date picker field is disabled.

   Example:

   Spring earlier considered as a holiday in the holiday calendar can be marked as Not a Holiday in the Exceptions Window. Further, the user can write his comments or remarks in the Notes Text Box next to the Exception Type dropdown. Any holiday can be shifted to another day, in which case the declared holiday is removed from the Holiday List, while the Shifted To day is included as a holiday.