Global Calendar settings

Access to global common settings

Select Calendar from the sidebar menu

Click the cog icon on the top-right corner

What is the calendar?

Holidays are taken into consideration when project start and finish dates are set. All holidays are managed in WBS Gantt-Chart's holiday calendar.
The calendars set in the Global common setting can be used in all gantts.

Holiday calendar example

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

Conditions:

Scenario A

	Value

	Value
1st regular holiday	-
2nd regular holiday	-
Holidays	-

Scenario B

	Value

	Value
1st regular holiday	Saturday
2nd regular holiday	Sunday
Holidays	Apr 3, 2017

Note: Apr 3, 2017 is Monday.

Issue values

	Value

	Value
Start date	Mar 28, 2017
Finish date	Mar 29, 2017
Duration	2 days

Operations

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

Results

Scenario A

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

	Value

	Value
Start date	Mar 31, 2017
Finish date	Apr 1, 2017
Duration	2 days

Scenario B

In this scenario, Apr 1, 2017 , Apr 2, 2017 , and Apr 3, 2017 will not be counted since they are defined as holidays.

	Value

	Value
Start date	Mar 31, 2017
Finish date	Apr 4, 2017
Duration	2 days

Calendar list

Required permissions

Action in Calendar setting	Required Permission

Action in Calendar setting	Required Permission
Edit Working time	Jira Administrator
Create calendar	Any users
Edit	Any users
Delete	Any users, but Do not allow delete Default Caledar Do not aloow delete the calendars that are being used in any Gantt or Scheme settings

Working time setting

Settings

Hours per day

The number of working hours per day. This follows Jira's global settings.

Working Time

The length will be determined according to the Hours per day and Break Time settings.

If the Start time of this setting is the same as the Start time of the task, the time will be omitted and only the date will be displayed in the Start column of the WBS/Gantt Chart view.
If the Finish time of this setting is the same as the Finish time of the task, the time will be omitted and only the date will be displayed in the Finish column of the WBS/Gantt Chart view.

Break Time

Set the time to be treated as a break in the work hours.

Duration unit

This setting is used to set the display unit of the Duration column displayed in the WBS/Gantt-Chart view.

When "day" is selected, the duration of the task will be displayed in days according to the settings of Hours per day, Working Time, and Break Time.

Example

Calendar

	Yes / No

	Yes / No
1st regular holiday	Saturday
2nd regular holiday	Sunday
Holidays	-

Working time

items	value

items	value
Hours per day	8
Working Time	09:00 - 18:00
Break Time	12:00 - 13:00

Task

items	value

items	value
Start	Jan 17, 2022 09:00
Finish	Jan 20, 2022 12:00

The duration of this task will be "27 hours" if the duration unit is "hour".
The duration of this task will be "3.375 days" if the duration unit is "day".

Calendar detail

Regular holiday

Check the non-working days in the week

Week Numbers

This item sets the week number and the starting day of the week.

If US is selected, the week in the Gantt chart is displayed starting on Sunday, and the week number is also displayed in US style.

If ISO-8601 is selected, the week in the Gantt chart is displayed starting on Monday, and the week number is also displayed in the ISO-8601 style.

Year

Filter to show the holiday in the years from Holiday List

Holiday List

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

Import Holidays

Choose Year and Country to import the public holidays from Google Calendar