What is the holiday calendar?

In WBS Gantt-Chart:

• Regular (default) holidays are shown in gray.
• Project holidays are shown in green.

Holidays are taken into consideration when project start and finish dates are set. All holidays are managed in WBS Gantt-Chart's holiday calendar.

Holiday calendar example

This is an example of the holiday calendar, showing two scenarios, A and B, as follows:

Conditions:

Scenario A

Scenario B

Note: 03 Apr 2017 is Monday.

Issue values

Operations

Drag-and-drop the Gantt bar so the issue starts on 31 Mar 2017. 

Results

Scenario A

This scenario does not have holidays, so the issue values are as follows:

Scenario B

In this scenario, 01 Apr 2017 , 02 Apr 2017 , and 03 Apr 2017 will not be counted since they are defined as holidays.

Confirm holiday calendar settings

Click Calendars on the left-hand side of the Gantt configuration screen.

Holiday calendar items

Regular holidays

You do not set any specific days of the week as holidays.

1st holiday

The first regular holiday you specify. If you select Yes for irregular holidays, this would not be shown.

2nd holiday

The second regular holiday you specify. If you select Yes for irregular holidays, this would not be shown.Check the box for the day of the week to be a fixed holiday.

Holidays

This is a list of the dates you have registered as holidays. 

Update holiday calendar

1. Click Edit on the upper right-hand side of the holiday calendar configuration screen.
2. Choose Irregular holidays.
3. Choose 1st holiday and 2nd holiday if you do not turn on Irregular Check the box for Regular holidays.
4. Enter specific holidays using YYYY-MM-DD format. Enter one date per line.
5. Click Update.