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# Holiday Calendar

It is important for Circulation to know which days you publish a given publication. The publishing days affect rating, the publishing run, and other areas. If a certain day is not a publishing day, it must either be a holiday or a non-publishing day. These three terms are described below:

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* A *publishing day* is any day on which a newspaper publishes. Publishing days are defined on the [Publishing Calendar](/circulation-setup-manual/business/products-menu/publishing-calendar.md).
* A *non-publishing day* is any day of the week on which a newspaper does not publish. For example, if your publication does not produce a Sunday paper, then Sunday would be a non-publishing day. Non-publishing days are defined in [Setup | Business | Products | Publication | Specifics | Publication Days](/circulation-setup-manual/business/products-menu/publication.md#specifics-publication-days).
* A *holiday* is a specific day on which a newspaper does not publish. You can define holidays for non-publishing days, but it is necessary to define holidays only for days when a newspaper would normally be published. For example, if your paper does not publish on Sundays, and Christmas is on a Sunday this year, there is no reason to enter a holiday for Christmas. However, if Christmas fell on a Friday (a normal publishing day), you would enter a holiday for Christmas if your newspaper will not publish.<br>

{% hint style="info" %}
**Note:** *Changes to the holiday calendar must be made at least 14 days in advance of the publishing date to avoid processing errors.*
{% endhint %}

The holiday calendar should extend two years into the future. If you select a day on the holiday calendar, that day will automatically be deselected as a publishing day on the Publishing Calendar. Conversely, if you cancel a holiday, that day will automatically be changed to a publishing day on the publishing calendar.

{% hint style="info" %}
**Note:** *If there is more than one week between your publishing dates (i.e., you have a monthly or bi-weekly publication), it may be necessary to specify the days between publishing dates as holidays to ensure that your draw rolls forward correctly from week to week. If there is less than a week between publishing dates, this will not be necessary.*
{% endhint %}

When **Make Draw** (Character Utilities | Tools | Make Draw) is run for a selected publishing day that is defined as a holiday, the system creates the **Route Draw** seven days in advance of the selected date. If the selected publishing day is defined as a holiday for two consecutive weeks, the system creates the **Route Draw** for the third week. If the holiday designation is later removed and **Make Draw** is run again for that same day, the system creates the **Route Draw** on the selected date. Any previously created **Route Draw** that was advanced due to the holiday will be removed.

#### To set up a holiday calendar:

1. In character Circulation, select Holiday Calendar from the Products menu to display the Holiday Calendar Setup screen. Holiday calendars can also be set up in the Calendars option in Graphical Setup.
2. Enter the product for which you are defining a holiday calendar. The screen then appears as shown in the figure below, with today’s date highlighted with two asterisks.<br>

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3. Refer to the table below (or press F2) for a list of keys to press to define the holiday calendar.<br>

   <table><thead><tr><th width="394">To perform this operation</th><th>Press the following keys</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Select the action(s) performed or select a specific day (if no actions have been entered)</td><td>Enter</td></tr><tr><td>Enter days of the week</td><td>W</td></tr><tr><td>Cancel days</td><td>C before any selection action</td></tr><tr><td>Move the cursor to the next day</td><td>Spacebar or right arrow</td></tr><tr><td>Move the cursor to previous day</td><td>Backspace or left arrow</td></tr><tr><td>Move the cursor to previous week</td><td>Up arrow</td></tr><tr><td>Move the cursor to next week</td><td>Down arrow</td></tr><tr><td>Move the cursor to previous month</td><td>Page Up</td></tr><tr><td>Move the cursor to next month</td><td>Page Down</td></tr><tr><td>Move the cursor to next year</td><td>Esc - right arrow</td></tr><tr><td>Move the cursor to previous year</td><td>Esc - left arrow</td></tr><tr><td>To enter a date range</td><td>- (hyphen)</td></tr><tr><td>To enter the “to date” range</td><td>/ (slash)</td></tr><tr><td>To multiply</td><td>X or * (asterisk)</td></tr><tr><td>Accept</td><td>F1</td></tr><tr><td>Reject</td><td>F4 or End</td></tr><tr><td>To display help</td><td>F2</td></tr></tbody></table>
4. When finished setting up the calendar, press F1. Set up a calendar for another product, or press F4 to exit to the Setup menu.

For example, to define September 5 as a holiday, navigate to September, position the cursor on “5”, and press Enter.