2941751 - How to Avoid Creating Custom Holiday Calendars

• You as time administrator observed that an employee entered a time record, but it is seen as overtime. 
• The public holiday happens in the whole country at different dates. For the most states it happens at the same date. But in some states it happens on different days.
• You might be aware that the namespace for custom holiday calendar is currently restricted to about 100 calendars.
• Request is to get the SAP delivered holiday calendar amended for the respective country.

SAP Business ByDesign

1. Go to Time Administration work center
2. Click on Employees view
3. Search for the relevant employee
4. Click on Edit
5. Go to Time Profile Tab
6. Click on Show Holiday Calendar
7. Note: The public holiday is maintained, even though the employee is in a region where the holiday doesn't occur at this specific date.

You don't need to create an own holiday calendar. You can use the existing SAP delivered holiday calendar for the respective country. Only a new working day calendar needs to be created which has the standard holiday calendar for the respective country assigned. The solution is as follows:

Step 1:

First, please create a new working day calendar in Business Configuration > activity Working Day Calendar.

1. Go to Business Configuration work center
2. Click on Overview view
3. Select Activities
4. Search for Working Day Calendar
5. Open it
6. Click on Create New Working Day Calendar
7. Select the relevant country
8. Click on Next
9. Select the relevant holiday calendar
10. Click on Next
11. Select the Working Days
12. Click on Next
13. Click on Finish

During the above steps, you should assign the existing holiday calendar for the relevant country. After that, you should maintain the working day calendar you just created. In Step 4, the should add the public holiday.

Step 2:

1. Go to Business Configuration work center
2. Click on Overview view
3. Select Activities
4. Search for Working Day Calendar
5. Open it
6. Click on Maintain existing working day calendar (the new working day calendar you created in Step 1 with existing holiday calendar assigned)
7. Click on Next until Step 4
8. Add the holiday to the Working Day Calendar

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