Creating base calendars

The base calendar specifies the working hours per day. You create base calendars according to the needs of your organization. For example, a project might require 8 hours of working hours per day and another project might require 6 hours of working hours per day. So, you can create two base calendars. The project and resource calendars inherits the base calendars. During project execution, duration and effort calculations take into account the hours per day that are defined in the base calendar. When you create base calendars, make sure that you enter valid information, because base calendars impact other calendars.

Before you begin

About this task

When you add exceptions to a base calendar, it affects all the project and resource calendars that inherits the base calendar.

To create a base calendar:

Procedure

  1. In the Administration view, click Project Management Administration.
  2. On the left menu bar, click Calendars, and click the Add icon Add icon.
  3. Double-click the fields to add the details of the calendar in the following fields:
    • Name: Specify the name of the calendar.
    • Hours Per Day: Specify the number of working hours that are in one day.
  4. Click Save.

What to do next

To modify a base calendar:
  1. In the Calendars viewlet, double-click the appropriate field.
  2. Make the necessary changes, and click Save.

If you have assigned the calendar to a project or resource, you cannot delete that calendar. To delete the calendar, first disassociate it from the project or resource.


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