Holidays

Inforiver admins have the ability to create a custom holiday calendar. The calendar can be used to ensure that subscription jobs are kept on hold during holidays and forecasts are not automatically closed on holidays. In the Inforiver console, navigate to Settings > Holidays to view the list of holiday calendars.

Click the Add New List button to create a new calendar.

Holiday calendars

You have the option of bulk uploading a set of holidays or adding each holiday separately.

Adding a holiday calendar

To edit a holiday calendar, click the icon. You will be able to update each holiday.

To delete a holiday calendar, click the icon.

1. Bulk Upload

Step 1: Click the download sample link. Inforiver provides a template Excel spreadsheet that you can use to fill in the list of holidays.

Download sample link

Step 2: Open the Excel file. Enter the holiday names and the date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Enter holidays

Step 3: Click the upload button and choose the file. Inforiver creates a preview of the holiday calendar that is being uploaded. Click the Add button.

Preview of upload

Step 4: Enter the calendar name to identify it from the calendar list. Click save.

Enter the calendar name

The new calendar is added to the list.

Calendar added using bulk upload

2. Add date - add individual holidays

Step 1: Enter the calendar name in the Add date window.

Add date interface

Step 2: Click the add date option to open the dialog box to enter holidays.

Add date dialog box

Step 3: Enter the holiday name and choose the date from the calendar.

Entering a holiday

Step 4: Click Create. The holiday is added to the calendar.

Holiday added

Step 5: Repeat the steps above and click Save to create the holiday calendar.