Generating Holidays

Use the Holiday Generator form to generate holidays hours for employees. You can use the Holiday Generator form to generate holiday hours manually or can configure to automatically generate holiday hours as a background task.

The Holiday Generator form is also used to delete different ABS records for both Holiday and Non-holiday report dates. See Scheduling Background Tasks for more information about configuring automatic tasks.

To generate holidays manually:

Open the Holiday Generator form.
To define criteria for generating holidays, specify starting and ending values for some or all of these fields:
- Employee
- Report Date
- Employee Type
- Work Group
- Department
- Absence Type
Optionally, to replace existing holidays, click Regenerate.
To generate holidays that match all specified criteria, click Generate.
To clear selection criteria after running the Holiday Generator, Select Clear.
To delete ABS records for both Holiday and Non-holiday report dates, specify starting and ending values for some or all of the above fields:
- Employee
- Report Date
- Employee Type
- Work Group
- Department
- Absence Type
Note: The ABS Records that are hours processed, are not deleted.

When no selection criteria are specified all records that match the selected filters are deleted.
The Include Holiday Report Dates check box is selected by default. When the check box is selected, the ABS records on the Holiday Report Dates that match the selection criteria are deleted.

Note: If the Holiday Report Date is configured to allow vacation abs hours as a substitute, then the Vacation ABS types are available in the Absence Code selection criteria.
When the Include Non-Holiday Report Dates check box is selected, then the ABS records on the non-Holiday report dates are deleted. ABS Codes (such as, Vacation, Generic, and Sick) are displayed.
Note:
- When the Include Non-Holiday Report Dates is selected, you receive a confirmation message to select the data that contains non-holiday report dates. You can also continue or cancel the absence hours.
- The Include Non-Holiday Report Dates includes Vacation, Generic and Sick Absence types. The Incident or NCNS ABS types are not included in the selection criteria.
- The Include Non-Holiday Report Dates does not include requested or approved ABS Requests.
When the Include ABS Requests check box is selected, ABS requests that match the selection criteria and that are not processed to payroll (“hours processed”) can be set to denied state. Also, the corresponding ABS records are deleted. This parameter deletes requests for both Holiday Report Dates and Non-Holiday report dates regardless, of the above parameters configuration. The Include Non Holiday confirmation message displays prior to deleting the records.
When the Include Approved ABS Requests check box is selected, Approved ABS requests that match the selection criteria and that are not processed to payroll (“hours processed”) can be set to denied state. Also, the corresponding ABS records are deleted.
Note:
- This parameter deletes requests for both the Holiday Report Dates and Non-Holiday report dates, regardless of the above parameters configuration.
- This parameter only deletes ABS records that are created in the ABS Request System.
- The Non-Holiday Confirmation message is displayed prior to deleting the records.
The selection criteria is displayed on the screen after performing the delete. Select Clear to reset the selection criteria to blank.
Click Delete to remove the specified ABS records.
Note:
- The form does not delete any processed ABS records.
- The form does not delete Attendance, Labor, Gap or Break record types specified for the selected dates.
- If the User Clicks Delete with Include Non-Holiday Report Dates, Include ABS Requests or Include Approved ABS Requests filters selected, then the Non-Holiday Report Date confirmation message is displayed.