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Gantt calendar settings

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


Yes / No

Irregular holidays

Yes

1st regular holiday

-

2nd regular holiday

-

Holidays

No

Scenario B


Yes / No

Irregular holidays

No

1st regular holiday

Saturday

2nd regular holiday

Sunday

Holidays

 

Note:  is Monday.

Issue values


Value

Start date

 

Finish date

 

Duration

2 days

Operations

Drag-and-drop the Gantt bar so the issue starts on 

Results

Scenario A

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


Value

Start date

 

Finish date

 

Duration

2 days

Scenario B

In this scenario,  ,  , and  will not be counted since they are defined as holidays.


Value

Start date

 

Finish date

 

Duration

2 days

Confirm holiday calendar settings

Click Calendars on the Gantt configuration screen.

Holiday calendar items

Use Share Calendar

When enabled, use the global shared calendar configured by the Jira administrator.

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.

Irregular holidays

You do not set any specific days of the week as holidays.

Global Calendar settings

1st holiday

The first regular holiday you specify. If you select Yes for irregular holidays, this would not be shown.

2nd holiday

The second regular holiday you specify. If you select Yes for irregular holidays, this would not be shown.

Holidays

This is a list of the dates you have registered as holidays. 

Update holiday calendar

  1. Click Edit on the upper right-hand side of the holiday calendar configuration screen.

  2. Choose Use Share Calendar.  If enabled, the other settings cannot be changed.

  3. Choose Irregular holidays.

  4. Choose 1st holiday and 2nd holiday if you do not turn on Irregular holidays.

  5. Enter specific holidays using YYYY-MM-DD format. Enter one date per line.

  6. Click Update.

Additional Help

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