Customizing a calendar

You will customize a base calendar to specify different working hours on specific days or assign a day as non-working day.
To perform this task, you must be assigned to an administrator role with the required security permission. For more information about roles and security, see EPM security settings.
In a project, you will have situations when you have to declare a partial or full holiday other than the days specified in the base calendar. Also, you might need to change a planned holiday to a working day due to business need. This customization is called adding exceptions to a calendar.
Note: After the calendar is associated to a project, you can customize it from the WBS view.
  1. Go to the Admin area, click the EPM Settings menu option.
  2. From the calendars list, click on the calendar that you want to add an exception to.
  3. In the right pane, select the date.
  4. Your team has to work on a weekly holiday or work extra on a working day due to high demand of the product in the market. To add a working day on a planned non-working day:
    1. In the exceptions window, Specify the range of the exception dates in the From and To field, and click Working Day.
    2. Enter the start and the end time.
    3. Optional: If you are defining different working time for the working day, click Add working time, and repeat the previous step. You can add up to four different working time.
    4. Optional: If you want to repeat the exception, click Repeat Exception, and then select the frequency: Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly. Typically, you will need to repeat the exception when you have a demand to work for additional hours, for example, four hours every week. The repeated week or day of a month or the date is determined on the date you have clicked.
    5. In the Comment field, enter a comment. The comment entered here is displayed when you mouse over the calendar date.
    6. Click Save.
  5. Your team has to work on a weekly holiday or worked extra on a working day and you have to give them a compensatory off day. To set a non-working day on a working day:
    1. In the exceptions window, Specify the range of the exception dates in the From and To field, and click Non working Day.
    2. Optional: If you want to repeat the exception, click Repeat Exception, and then select the frequency: Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly. The repeated week or day of a month or the date is determined on the date you have clicked.
    3. In the Comment field, enter a comment. The comment entered here is displayed when you mouse over the calendar date.
    4. Click Save.
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Changing project areas

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