To have access to the Administration settings, a user must have the ‘Manage system settings ’ permission enabled in her role. How to enable permissions, see Roles and Permissions.
Company schedule settings is a tab on Administration settings screen.
The settings are summarized in the table.
| Setting | Description |
| Treat weekends as workdays | Select the checkbox if you want weekends to be counted as workdays. |
| Default number of hours per day | The number that is used for the work hours per day value. Default value is 8. |
| Vacation year starts on | The date you want your company’s vacation year to start with. Default date is January, 1. |
| Public Holidays | Allows an administrator to add public holidays to the Calendar. |
Choosing to treat weekends as working days will result in the recalculation of the end dates of all activities.
Adding/editing public holidays
To add a public holiday:
- Specify a name for the holiday to be added, e.g. ‘Christmas Day’.
- Select a date, e.g. February 25.
- Click ‘Add’.
To edit/delete a public holiday:
- Click the holiday to edit/delete.
- Select the appropriate command on a context-sensitive menu.
- To edit: do required changes and click 'Update'.
- To delete: confirm deletion.
Aside from their effect on a users workload, plublic holidays are also related to the payroll report - see the note, below.
Note: If a user has any amount of hours logged on the days prior to and immediately after a public holiday, EP will make the company public holiday a paid holiday (Absence(paid)), in the payroll report.