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Calendar
The public holiday and factory calendar is a
central module in the SAP System. It is used in many areas (e.g. in Logistics
and in Human Resources) in the standard version.
You can use calendar maintenance to maintain
and display the components of the calendar system. The public holiday and
factory calendar data calculated from calendar maintenance is directly
available to the system.
A factory calendar is allocated to your plant
via another Customizing function.
The calendar system consists of the following
components:
- Public holidays
Definitions for public holidays: Calculation rule for date, religious
denomination etc.
- Public holiday calendar
Any composition of public holiday rules.
- Factory calendar
Definition of workdays including special regulations, under the assignment of
a particular public holiday calendar.
Standard
Settings
The system delivers definitions of all common
public holidays and public holiday rules, as well as a standard factory
calendar.
A main memory area of 400000 Bytes is reserved
for calendar data in the standard version. This is the mimimum buffer size,
which you should not go under.
Activities
Check whether all the definitions for public
holidays and public holiday rules that you need are available in the sytem. If
necessary, maintain the public holiday definitions and copy them to new or
existing public holiday rules.
Create factory calendars if
necessary.
Public
holidays
Check that existing public holidays are
complete, and create new definitions if required:
1. Double-click
with the mouse on the Execute symbol, select the option Public
holidays and choose the function
Display.
2. Check
whether the list of public holidays displayed contains all the public holidays
that you need.
If you want to see detailed information on any public holiday, choose the
function Display def.
3. If you need
other public holidays, return to the initial screen of the maintenance
transaction, and choose the function
Change.
4. Choose the
function Insert, and now make the following
entries:
- Public holiday text (short and
long)
- If required: Sort criterion, religious
denomination or public holiday class (for notes on this, press the F1
Help).
Save the
definition.
Public holiday
calendar
Combine the public holidays you require in a
public holiday rule in the public holiday calendar:
1. Double-click
with the mouse on "Execute function", select the option Public
holiday calendar and choose the function
Display.
2. Check
whether all the public holiday rules that your require are available.
To get the definitions for a public holiday calendar, position the cursor on
it and choose the function Display def.
.
3. If you need
other public holiday calendars or would like to change existing ones, return
to the initial screen of the maintenance transaction and choose the function
Change.
4. To create a
public holiday calendar, choose the function Insert
(to change a public holiday calendar, position the cursor on it and choose
Change ), and make the following
entries:
- Calendar ID and a
descriptive short text
- Period of validity (From
year, To year)
5. Using the
function Assign public holidays, generate a complete
list of defined public holidays.
6. Select the
public holidays you need, and choose Assign public
holidays.
7. Save your
entries.
Factory
calendar
Define a factory calendar including the
relevant public holiday calendar:
1. Double-click
with the mouse on "Execute function", select the option Public
holiday calendar and choose the function
Display.
2. In calendar
maintenance, select the option "Factory calendar", and choose the function
Change.
3. Choose the
function Insert and make the following
entries:
- Factory calendar ID
and a descriptive short text
- Period of validity (From
year, To year)
- Public holiday calendar
ID
- Start no. factory
date
Number from which the factory date is incremented for each workday.
If you do not make an entry, the default value is "0".
4. Decide which
days of the week are meant to be workdays.
5. Define
special rules if necessary (e.g. plant holidays).
Further
Notes
- Calendar buffer
If you want to increase the size of the calendar buffer, maintain the
parameter zcsa/calendar_area with the maintenance transaction
for system profiles. Restart the system for the value to take
effect.
- Transport
Changes to calendar data are not automatically included in a correction
request.
For the calendar data to be utilizable in another system, use the function
Transport in the initial screen of the maintenance
transaction.
Note that you cannot transport individual public holidays or calendars. You
can only transport calendar data in its entirety. When you do this, all public
holidays, public holiday and factory calendars existing in the target system
are deleted.