Symptom
Your requirement is to create a Working Day Calendar for a non-localized Country XYZ, but the respective non-localized Country XYZ is not available under the List of Countries in the Working Day Calendar activity (where XYZ represents the country name).
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
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Go to Business Configuration work center
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Go to Implementation Projects view
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For the relevant project select Open activity list
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Go to Fine-Tune phase and open the activity Working Day Calendar
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Select Create new working day calendars
The required non-localized Country XYZ is missing in the List of Countries
Resolution
Working Day Calendar for non-localized Countries is currently not available in the project scope.
For non-localized Country XYZ, you may copy an existing Country's Calendar and further, Edit and use as per the non-localized Country XYZ requirements.
To create a New Holiday Calendar, you may follow the below steps:
- Go to Business Configuration work center
- Go to Implementation Projects view
- For the relevant project, select Open Activity List button
- Go to Fine-Tune phase and open the activity Working Day Calendar
- Select Create New Holiday Calendar
- Select the Country ABC from which you want to copy the Calendar
- Checkmark the box for Use General Holiday Calendar template for selected country
- This will add all the holidays present in your Selected Country Holiday Calendar
- You can ignore this checkbox option as well, from which the Selected Holidays List will be empty and you will be able to add all relevant holidays
- Now, for the holidays which are not present, select Add Row option and add your required holidays in the list
- You can Edit the Holiday Calendar Name and feature of a new calendar DEF Holiday Calendar
- Review the data and select Finish to save your New Holiday Calendar
After creating the New Holiday Calendar, you may create New Working Day Calendar as below:
- Go to Business Configuration work center
- Go to Implementation Projects view
- For the relevant project, select Open Activity List button
- Go to Fine-Tune phase and open the activity Working Day Calendar
- Select Create New Working Day Calendars
- Choose the Country ABC from which you want to copy the Calendar
- Select the Country XYZ for which the New Holiday Calendar was created previously
- Choose the working days and provide the name for the new DEF Working Day Calendar
- Review the data and select Finish to save your New Working Day Calendar
Assign the New Working Day Calendar to the relevant Business Residence in Organizational Management:
- Go to Organizational Management work center
- Go to Common Tasks view
- Select Edit Org Structures subview
- Select the Business Residence and on the General tab:
- Select your New Working Day Calendar from the list
- Save your entries
(ABC and XYZ represent different country names and DEF represents the name of a holiday calendar)
Note: For the Working Day Calendar, in the standard List of Countries delivered by SAP, renaming of the existing Country to a new Country is currently not supported.
Keywords
List of Countries, Working Day Calendar, Holiday Calendar , KBA , working day calendar , holiday calendar , list of countries , LOD-CRM-EMP , Employee , How To