Nonworking Time - Overview

Nonworking time is a calendar exception created for users and is designed to adjust the hours they can work due to specific events or occurrences. Examples of nonworking time are company holidays or a user's vacation.

Nonworking time impacts schedules because it represents time that is not available for working on tasks. The immediate impact of nonworking on tasks depends on which is created first: the task or the nonworking time:

Nonworking time created before task—When you create and assign a task, any applicable nonworking time is automatically taken into account as that task is scheduled.
Task created before nonworking time—When nonworking is created, existing tasks that are impacted are not automatically adjusted. Project managers are prompted to have the schedule adjusted when they view the task list. For more information, see About Schedule Adjustments.

types of nonworking time:

Global Nonworking Time:

Global nonworking time is an exception created by an administrator for a PPM workweek calendar(s). When nonworking time is created for a calendar, this reduces capacity of resources assigned to that calendar.

Schedules that are impacted by newly added nonworking time can be automatically adjusted to reflect the change in work hours. (A message displays when project managers navigate to the workspace. For more information, see About Schedule Adjustments.) Tasks added after the nonworking time is created automatically take that time into account when determining start/finish dates.

For example, if nonworking time is added for a company holiday on July 17, any tasks added that span that day are extended by a day to account for the loss of the day in the schedule.

Administrators create global nonworking time instances in the Administrative Zone. For details, see Creating Global Nonworking Time.
Personal Nonworking Time:

Personal nonworking time is a calendar exception created by a resource manager for an individual user. Personal nonworking time is designed to adjust a team member's assignable hours due to specific personal events or occurrences.

Schedules that are impacted by newly added nonworking time can be automatically adjusted to reflect the change in work hours. (A message displays when project managers navigate to the project task list. For more information, see About Schedule Adjustments.) Tasks added after the nonworking time is created automatically take that time into account when determining start/finish dates.

For example, if one of your team members will be out of the office for an afternoon, you can add personal nonworking time for that person. Any new tasks scheduled for that afternoon are automatically adjusted to take into account the change in the hours the team member can work.

Resource managers or supervisors create personal nonworking time for specific team members in the Team Manager application. For details, see Creating Personal Nonworking Time.

For more information on how nonworking time impacts the schedule, see About Personal Nonworking Time.

Viewing Nonworking Time:

Depending on your role and permissions you can view nonworking time in one or more ways:

Viewing Your Nonworking Time—Use the global Calendar to view your personal nonworking time as well as those global nonworking time that affect you.
Viewing Nonworking Time as a Manager—If you manage or supervise members you can view the global and personal nonworking time that affects them.
Viewing Nonworking Time for a Workspace—If you are a project manager you can view the global and personal nonworking time that affects members of your workspace(s).