Property

Description

Name

The name of the holiday, up to 80 characters. You should keep this as short as reasonably possible, however, to better fit it on timesheets and dashboards.

Description

A description for the holiday, up to 255 characters.

Date

The date of the holiday.

Repeat

If this holiday recurs then select the appropriate value. For instance, for New Years you could set the date to January 1, 2009 and choose a repeat value of "Yearly on this date". For the U.S. holiday Thanksgiving you could set the date to November 27, 2009 and choose a repeat value of "Yearly on the 4th" Thursday of November.

Partial Day

Check this option to create a partial day holiday. For instance, you might have a half-day holiday on New Year's Eve. The actual number of hours pushed onto employee timesheets will be determined by their Scheduled Hours Per Day property on the Employees page (or, if the employee property is not set, the Hours Per Day property on the System > General page). For example, if the employee is scheduled to work 8 hours per day, a half-day holiday would result in 4 hours being placed on the timesheet.

Locale

You can limit the holiday to a specific set of locales or countries. If this list is empty then there is no locale limitation. See the Managing Employees topic for more information on employee locales.

Groups

You can limit the holiday to a specific set of employee groups. If this list is empty then there is no group limitation.