The window has two tabs:

Holidays: Displays the various existing public holidays, which can be used in any of the public holiday calendars.

Calendar: Associates public holidays with the different calendars created for the agency's various branches.

Holidays tab

The tab is divided into several tables or sections:

A. List of public holidays

This column contains a list of configurable holidays, which can be added to the calendars associated with the various branches. For example: Thanksgiving, Daylight Saving Time, Canada Day, Labor Day, etc.). It is also possible to search the list of existing holidays, using the search engine at the top of the section(a1). It is also in this section that you can insert a new public holiday (a2), which can be added to the agency's various calendars.

B. Details of selected public holiday

Description: Name of the selected holiday. The name can be translated into the different languages configured in your system, by clicking on the translation bubble

Type: Allows you to specify whether the holiday is fixed (e.g. Christmas, New Year's Day) or variable (e.g. Good Friday, Labor Day) from one year to the next.

C. Holidays properties

This section presents a list of properties that can be checked for the selected day, and which allow you to control the behavior for shifts created on these dates. For example, the addition of a corresponding pay and billing code ( Holiday property), or the number of hours calculated in total for a night shift (Beginning of summer time, Ending of summer time).

D. Date - variable holidays

Table of specific dates for the holiday selected depending on the year, in the case of variable holidays. This shows the dates assigned to this public holiday for past, current and following years. A procedure must be executed at the end of each year to generate the calendar for the following year.

The table only displays data for days of variable type. If a day has a fixed date, this date is indicated under the name of the public holiday, in the list of public holidays (section A) and under its description when selected (section B).

Calendar tab

This tab allows you to create different holiday calendars,  add the holidays created in the Holidays tab to these calendars, and to associate these calendars with the agency's various branches.

A. Calendar list

This section presents a list of configured calendars.

•The search engine at the top of the section makes it easy to filter and find a calendar in this list.

•The Insert new calendar button lets you add a new calendar, which will be useful if you have branches in different regions, with differences in the public holidays granted to workers.

Select a calendar to display its data in the other sections.

B. Calendar details

Description: Name of the selected calendar. The name indicated will be the same in all system languages.

Year: Reference year selected from a drop-down menu (2025 here). The table below changes according to the year selected.

C. Public holidays

This section lists the public holidays for the selected year, as defined in the Holidays tab.

Holiday : Name of the holiday (e.g. Thanksgiving, Canada Day, etc.).

Date: Exact date of the holiday for the selected year.

D. Branches using this calendar

Each calendar can be associated with one or more branches: each line in this section therefore corresponds to a branch for which the selected calendar is the default calendar. Please note, however, that each branch can be associated with only one calendar, which becomes the default calendar for the branch. This can be defined in the branch settings.

Although each branch can only be associated with a single default calendar, it is nevertheless possible, in the candidate's settings, to select a calendar other than that of his or her default branch, depending, for example, on his or her region of residence.

Add a new public holiday

Public holidays can be added to your database to meet the needs of your agency in the regions in which it does business. Once holidays have been created, they can then be added to the various calendars. This is done in the Holidays tab.

1.Click on (Insert) from the Home ribbon , or on the Insert new holiday button  at the bottom of the list of existing holidays.

2.In the Description field , enter the name of the holiday. If required, you can translate this name by clicking on the translation tooltip after saving.

3.Indicate Type: fixed or variable.

If the date is fixed: (e.g. Boxing Day)

4.Select the date using the drop-down menus (Month and Day)

5.Click on (Save)

If the date is variable (e.g. Family Day in Ontario):

6.After saving, the left-hand section is added with the current year and the following year. Add holiday dates for each year displayed.

Fixed or variable date

7.Check the relevant properties (in general, the Holiday property should be checked ).

Some of the properties displayed below are obsolete and will be removed shortly. These can be ignored. For example, with the ability to create separate calendars by branch, properties related to holidays in a particular region are no longer used, and only the « Holiday » property is used for this purpose.

8.Click on (Save).

New public holiday(s) can now be added to an existing calendar.

Modifying an existing public holiday

It is also possible to make some modifications to an existing public holiday:

•Add the date when a new year has been generated(6) (or modify the date, if it has not yet passed and the wrong date has been indicated).

•Modify type (fixed or variable)(3)

•Modify or translate name(2)

•Check or uncheck properties(7).

To meet your agency's needs, it is possible to create several separate calendars, which may include different public holidays, depending on the regions in which they are used.

1.In the left-hand column, click on Insert a new calendar.

2.Give it a name in the Description field (e.g. "Branch B").

3.Click on (Save)

4.Select a year to configure. Generally, this will be the current year.

5.In the Holidays section, click on (Insert) to display the list of available holidays.

6.Check all the days you wish to add to the calendar, then click OK and save.

7.No branches are initially displayed in the Branches using this calendar section. If a branch to be associated with this calendar has already been created, you can now select this default calendar in the branch parameters. If the branch has not yet been created, you can create it from this window by clicking on (Insert) after selecting the section.

Once a public holiday has been created, it becomes available for addition to an existing or new calendar. This is done in the Calendar tab.

1.Select the calendar from the list on the left (e.g. Branch B).

2.Select the year (e.g. 2025).

3.In the Holidays section, click on (Insert) to display the list of available holidays.

4.Check the day(s) you wish to add to the calendar, then click OK.

Only those public holidays that are not yet in the calendar and whose date has been correctly indicated in the "Holidays" tab for the selected year will appear in the list.

5.Click on (Save)

Generate the holiday calendar for the next year is a 2-steps process: you mus first add the dates or the variable holidays, and then generate the new year.  

1.Go to the configuration window.

2.Search and launch the Holiday calendar pane.

3.In Holidays tab, select a holiday with a variable date.

4.In the section on the right, enter the date of the holiday for the next year and save. Repeat this step for each variable holiday.

When you save, a field will be adde for the following year. Furthermore, if you make an error on the date, it will still be possible to change it as long as the date is not passed.  

5.Go to Calendar tab.

6.Select a calendar, click on to the right, and on Generate new year in order to generate the calendar for the next year.

7.If some holidays dates are missing, a warning is displayed, with a red dot indicating the number of days missing. If this is the case, go back to Holidays to set up the missing dates.
These will also be marked with a red dot, and the field of the missing date will be in red.  

8.Once all the dates have been added, you will be able to select he new year in the Calendar tab to see all the dates for holidays included in the calendar.