Creating a holiday calendar

In a holiday calendar vacation periods will be created. A holiday calendar is created in the following way:

1. In the window “Edit resource calendar” select tab “General calendar”.
2. In the middle of the window select tab “Holiday calendar”
3. Click the button “New” in the upper right of the tab “Holiday calendar”.
4. Enter the name of the new holiday calendar and click “Ok”. The name is now displayed in the list to the left of the tab.
5. Click the button “New period” at the bottom of the tab to create a new period and the window “Add new period” is opened.
6. In the window “Add new period” do the following:
7. Select if the period is a working period (open) or a non-working period (closed). Periods in the holiday calendar will typically be “closed” periods.
8. In the description area you enter a description of the period, e.g. “Summer vacation”.
9. Start date and end date is specified. See chapter Instructions for entering periods, for entering instructions.
10. If a holiday period from 12^th – 23^th July shall be entered, do the following:
    1. in the field “Start date” you select or enter “12-07-04”.
    2. in the field “End date” you select or enter “23-07-04”.
    3. The period must cover all 24 hours every day of the period so select the “All day” check mark.
    4. Select “Weekly” in the recurrence option (also see chapter Instructions for entering periods for details).
       Click the “Ok” button.
11. The period is now displayed in the holiday calendar list at tab “Holiday calendar” in the window “Edit resource calendar”.