Overview

The end date of an activity is calculated from the start date plus the duration over the calendar associated with the activity. Therefore, a five day duration activity that starts on a Wednesday, and is associated with a five day work week calendar (with Saturday and Sunday as non-work days) will finish on the following Tuesday:

Every SureTrak schedule is created with a Global Calendar and a one Base (activity) calendar, Calendar 1.

Global Calendars

• The Global Calendar may be edited for each new schedule.

• The Global Calendar sets the default working days and hours used in new calendars and the holidays for all calendars.

• The Global Calendar may not be assigned to an activity.

Base (activity) Calendars

• Up to 31 Base calendars may be created and assigned to activities.

• Base calendars are assigned to activities so as to allow for each activity s individual calendar requirements. For example, office work would be allocated a five-day calendar, while site work would be allocated a six-day calendar.

Templates should be created for projects that utilize the same calendars and this saves time when creating a new project.

5.1 Global Calendar

Each Holiday or Non-workday nominated in the Global Calendar is reflected in all Base calendars. As a general rule you should make the Global Calendar 5 or 6 days per week at 8 hrs per day and include Public Holidays. Public Holidays on the same date every year may be made Annual. Rostered Days Off may...