pp108 : Working with a Business Calendar

Working with a Business Calendar

This topic defines the Process Platform Business Calendar and provides an overview of the tasks that you can perform using the business calendar.


Business calendars typically represent the operating hours of a business. A business calendar specifies a time zone and a set of time period rules. The time zone indicates your local time zone by default . The time period rules determine the days, dates, and hours that are working/available for business activities and non-working/unavailable for business activities. Process Platform allows you to create and define your business calendar. It helps you to plan your works based on actual business hours through defining calendar exceptions by hand or through importing exceptions using a file in an iCal format.

Defining A Business Calendar Using Process Platform


With the Process Platform business calendar, you can create and configure either a static or a dynamic business calendar. You can set, manage and track your business calendar from:

  • Default Week Calendar: Define your weekly day or business week pattern including business time using this feature.
  • Calendar Exceptions: Use this feature to specify and apply exceptions such as holidays, leaves and non-working days to your business calendar.
  • Time Zone Settings: Use this feature to specify and apply your local or preferred time zone to your business calendar.

Using the Process Platform Business Calendar


You can use the Process Platform business calendar to:

  • Calculate time-outs.
  • Calculate delays based on business hours.
  • Calculate due dates based on business hours.
  • Calculate process duration based on business hours.
    Using the above features, you can:
  • Check user availability for a task .
  • Avoid setting due dates on holidays or weekends.
  • Avoid unexpected delays.

Related tasks

Creating a Business Calendar
Defining Business Week Pattern
Defining Exceptions to the Business Calendar
Publishing a Business Calendar to an Organization
Importing Calendar Exceptions
Linking Calendar Exceptions to the Business Calendar