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

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. Check the box for Regular holidays.
3. Enter specific holidays using YYYY-MM-DD format. Enter one date per line.
4. Click Update.