Calendar structure and set up

You can use multiple calendars in a company, from basic time management with the workweek and company calendars to detailed calendars for specific tasks. Depending on the amount of detail the company needs, a structure can be set up consisting of multiple calendar codes, availability types and workweeks.

  • Workweeks

    You can define workweeks in the Workweeks (tcccp0105m000) and their workdays in the Workdays (tcccp0130m000) sessions. Workweeks specify the available hours and can be defined in multiple ways: regular hours, two shifts week, and holidays can be defined.

    You can define workweeks for a specific period of time in the Date Effective Workweeks (tcccp0106m000) session.

  • Calendar Codes

    All calendar codes have a set time frame in which they are active. Child calendar codes are dependant on the time frames of their parent calendars. A child calendar cannot extend outside the time frame of its parent. Therefore, you cannot set a child calendar's start date earlier than the parent calendar's start date and the child calendar's end date later than the parent calendar's end date.

  • Availability types

    You can link calendar codes to availability types in the Calendar Availability Types (tcccp0150m000) session. For more information, refer to Availability types

  • Calendar working hours

    In the Calendar Working Hours (tcccp0120m000) session, you can view the effective calendar details for each date. If the details for a specific date have been derived from a parent or the workweek calendar or an calendar exception, the Derived From field reads Parent, Workweek or Exception.

    A calendar can have multiple working times on one date, for example 8:00-12:00 and 13:00-17:00. However, all the working times must be derived from one source.

    Per specific date in a calendar the working times are:

    • Derived from the workweek.
    • Derived from the parent calendar.
    • Derived from a calendar exceptions.
    • Derived from the Non-working Days (tcccp0119m000) session, if the date is unavailable for planning.
    • Specified manually.
    • Calendar search path

      If a planning process cannot find the calendar for a particular employee or other resource, LN searches for a calendar defined for the department, enterprise units, and finally the company calendar. Every planning process uses a fixed search path for calendars defined by the LN application. That search path always ends at the company calendar and is independent from the parent calendars you defined.

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