Project Calendar

It is important to be able to define regular working and non-working days, and events such as holidays, vacation days, or days with a different working schedule.

Click the toolbar button for the Calendar . A calendar view will be presented. Standard working days are drawn in white. Days with non-standard schedules are drawn in yellow. Non-Working Days are indicated in shaded/gray. You can advance or back up by a month- or year at a time by clicking the buttons to either side of the current month.

Units of Time

The program uses standard 12-Hour AM/PM nomenclature. The smallest resolution of time is the 15- minute interval. Entries can be made in terms of Days or Hours. You can change the default using the button at the lower left of the Calendar Screen. Alternatively, when typing in duration, if you follow it with an "h" or "d" (for "Hours" or "days"), the system default will be changed to reflect that.

Working Shifts

You can specify up to 3 working shifts. A Standard (default) shift can be scheduled, and Custom shift schedules can be specified for individual days or groups of days. Shift hours are specified using the scheduling boxes at the bottom of the dialog box for this.

The three buttons at the lower right of the screen allow you to Reset the standard work day to an 8-hour default, copy the Standard Workday schedule to a Custom Day, or to clear the Custom Day entry to start over.

Setting Work Days

When you click any one day, its status as Standard Working Day, Custom Working Day, or Non-Working Day is displayed in the box to the right. The day's status can be changed, by clicking the adjacent button for "Standard Work Day", "Custom Work Day" or "Non-Working".

When you select an individual day as "Custom Work Day", you can the set the shift schedule for that day using the scheduling boxes at the bottom of the screen.

You can also select a day and click "Non-Working Day" to indicate that there are no working hours on that day - such as for a Holiday.

Note: The program allows the specification of a maximum of 100 Custom Days and a maximum of 100 Non-Working Days.

You can set periodic days off, typically weekend-days, by clicking that day name at the head of a column ("Sun") and then clicking the "Working" or "Non-Working" button. Similarly, you can set periodic Custom-Day schedules by clicking that day name at the head of a column ("Wed") and then clicking the "Custom" button. Example - On Wednesdays we only work for a half-day.

All calendar settings are saved when you exit the program. A simple "Working Day Calculator" is provided to the lower right of the calendar screen. Enter, or click, a starting date followed by duration, and an end-date will be displayed. This is the end date based on working days as opposed to just elapsed days.