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# Publishing Calendar

Use this option to define your publishing days. Circulation looks at this calendar to decide whether a day is a publishing day, and this affects rating and distribution. If a day of the week has been defined as being non-publishing for a publication (see [*Specifics, Publication Days*](/circulation-setup-manual/business/products-menu/publication.md#specifics-publication-days)), you will not be able to set that weekday as a publishing day.

Define calendars to cover a period extending one year into the past and at least two calendar years into the future. This way, Circulation is less likely to generate errors when attempting to give back credit to carriers or when crediting advanced subscriber payments. See [*Holiday Calendar*](/circulation-setup-manual/business/products-menu/holiday-calendar.md) for more about calendars.

#### To set up a publishing calendar:

1. In character Circulation, select Publishing Calendar from the Products menu to display the Publishing Calendar Setup screen. Publishing calendars can also be set up in the Calendars option in Graphical Setup.
2. Enter the ID of a product for which to define the calendar. The screen will appear as shown below.<br>

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3. Refer to the table listed with the [Holiday Calendar](/circulation-setup-manual/business/products-menu/holiday-calendar.md), below, as a guide, or press F2 for a list of keys that can be used to define the Publishing Calendar.
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, let’s say your product (*The Daily Gazette*) published Monday through Friday and you wanted to define the Publishing Calendar for all of 2009. You would first press “w”, select Monday through Friday (type “mtwhf”) and then press Enter. Next, with the cursor positioned on Mon Jan 1, you would type “-” and then “/” and enter the date 12/31/09. The screen would display the publishing days for December 2009.


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