Using a Holiday list in PM Central

Creating and using a Holiday list allows ensures that your organizations designated holidays are excluded from task scheduling and resource capacity calculations in PM Central.

When using a Holiday list keep in mind:

Only one holiday list can be used per PM Central Portfolio
The holiday list must be created from a SharePoint Calendar list
Holidays need to be created as Yearly events

If you use a holiday list there are several Web Part in PM Central that will need to be configured to reference the list:

Portfolio Site

Resource Center

Required

From the Resource Center link in the portfolio site’s PM Central Control Panel, associate the Resource Center with the holiday list so your company’s designated holidays are not included in resource capacity calculations.
Holiday list configuration in the resource center

Enter in the URL to the site where the holiday list is located
Click the green arrow button to populate the drop down selector with the list found on the site.
Select the desired list and click Save

Project Site

Resource Center Settings

Required

From the Resource Center link in the project site’s PM Central Control Panel,point to the Holiday list

Task Master Web Part

Required

When configured with a holiday list, Task Master will not allow work to be scheduled on the designated holidays.

NOTE: The project must be Recalculated before the scheduling rules will be enforced.

Holiday list configuration in Task Master
Click here for more information on configuring the Web Part.

Calendar Plus Web Part

Optional

When Calendar Plus is configured to reference a Holiday List, items from the list will be displayed in all Calendar Plus views.
Holiday View Settings configuration screen

NOTE: This configuration has no impact scheduling or reporting in PM Central and is for display purposes only.

Click here for more information on configuring the Web Part.