What is the holiday 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.

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: Apr 3, 2017 is Monday.

Issue values

Operations

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

Open

Results

Scenario A

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

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.

Confirm holiday calendar settings

Click Calendars on the Gantt configuration screen.

Holiday calendar items

Open

Use Share Calendar

When enabled, use the global shared calendar.

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