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, Standard Calendar or Recurrence.

    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.

Note

If you use the DEM Content Pack with Infor LN, consider using the DCO0030 (Calendar Setup) wizard to set up calendars. You can execute this predefined wizard from the Wizards by Project Model (tgwzr4502m000) session after you specified the business function model for your company. See Business function model.

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