MAINTAIN HOLIDAYS/NON-WORKING DAYS IN PROJECT CALENDAR : SET EXCEPTION

Define Holidays or Exceptions in Project Calendar

• Go to Project Tab
• Under Properties -  select Change Working Time
• Lets say we want to maintain 15th August as Independence Day Holiday for our Project During Project life cycle.
• Select 15th August from the Current Year Calendar i.e. 2012
• Write Down Independence Day or the Holiday Reason in Name section under Exception tab as below
• The Start and Finish date will appear automatically

• Click on Details option
• Choose the Recurrence Pattern as Yearly, since Independence Day come once in a Year
• Select the Range of Recurrence according to the requirement
• Choose the End After or End By option to make sure how long you want to continue this exception. ( Project Professional Supports up to the year 2049)

• OK
• Come back to calendar and see the difference
• now we can see 15th August as Exception/ Non working day with the reason of the Holiday as below up to the year 2049.
• As we can noticed 15th August date is Grayed out in the Calendar.

• Same way we can put weekly holidays for particular resource or all resources
• We can maintain the work hour/special work hour on weekend on in Saturday
• We can maintain the schedule for a particular weekday for every month  (Example: Third Wednesday every month)  [Check the entire recurrence pattern one by one]