Open Workbench User Guide

About Calendars

Choose Calendar to Apply to Projects

To apply a calendar other than the default calendar to all of the projects you have open during an Open Workbench session you must choose it from the list of calendars that are located in the System Options section of the Calendars dialog box. To view this dialog box, select Tools, Calendar. During an Open Workbench session you can switch calendars as often as you need to create new scenarios for your projects.

To apply a calendar to a project

1. Select Edit Calendar from the Project ribbon.

The Calendars dialog box appears.

2. In the System Options section, choose the name of the calendar that you want to apply to all of the projects you have open from the Current Calendar drop-down, and click OK.

The Calendars dialog box closes.

Edit Calendars

Use the Calendars dialog box to edit or delete the project calendar. The fields in the

System Options section of the page apply to all projects you have open in an Open

Workbench session. Use the fields in the Calendar Editing section of the page to create a new calendar and to select the calendar on which to base the new calendar. Use the calendar's scroll bar to scroll forward or backward through the months of the year.

You can save the changes you make to the calendar to use them later only if you have defined a global file location. You can make changes in any case, but when you save the project back to CA Clarity PPM, unless you have defined a global file location, the CA

Clarity PPM calendar you edit reverts to their original settings.

Note: If you are using Open Workbench with CA Clarity PPM, the changes you make to

CA Clarity PPM calendars are not saved back to CA Clarity PPM.

In the calendar grid, you can do the following:

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Select weekday column headings to select all the weekdays throughout all months and years of the calendar to apply your changes.

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Select single or multiple days to apply your changes.

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Click the scroll bar to move to next or previous month.

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Select a single day and click Workday to

set the selected day to a workday

(see

page 45). Resources are expected to be available for use on this day.

Select a day and click Holiday to

set the selected day to a non-workday

(see

page 46). Resources are not expected to be available for use on this day.

Remove individual holiday and non-standard workday exceptions and

reset the selected days to their base calendar settings

(see page 46).

Remove all holiday and non-standard workday exceptions and

reset the calendar to the base calendar settings

(see page 46).

To edit a calendar

1. Select Edit Calendar from the Project ribbon.

The Calendars dialog box appears.

2. In the System Options section, define the following fields:

Hours per Day

Displays the number of hours that can be worked per day.

Hours per Week

Displays the number of hours that can be worked per week.

Week Start

Specifies the day on which the normal work week begins.

Values: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Current Calendar

Specifies the name of the calendar that you want to apply to all projects.

Default: Standard

3. In the Calendar Editing section, define the following fields:

Name

Defines the name of the calendar.

Based On

Specifies the base calendar on which to base this calendar. If you are creating a new calendar, it inherits the settings of the base calendar.

4. Click OK.

The Calendars dialog box closes.

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