Identifying Business Closed Days

Use the Business Closed Days screen and Date Scheduler screen to create a list of all special days, such as holidays, and normal days, such as Saturday and Sunday, that your business is closed.

After creating a list, you can also edit it as necessary, on the Business Closed Days screen and Date Scheduler screen.

Use the following procedures to:

Create a list of business closed days.
Edit a list of business closed days.

To create a list of business closed days:

From the System > System Files menu, select Business Closed Days Maintenance to display the Business Closed Days screen.
On a blank line in the Date column, enter the first date from your list of special closed days. The system populates the Day field with the corresponding day of the week.
Enter the remaining special closed dates, as described in the previous step, in chronological order.
Use the Add hot key to display the Date Scheduler screen.
Enter the Starting Date and Ending Date to designate the time period.
Next to the days that your business is normally closed, enter an asterisk (*).

For example, if your company is closed on weekends, enter asterisks next to Saturday and Sunday. If it is closed only on Sunday, just flag Sunday.

Flag the Weekly field by entering an asterisk (*) next to the field.

Note: The Daily and Bi-Weekly fields are not typically used with the Business Closed Days screen.

Press Esc to save the schedule and return to the previous screen.

The system adds the designated closed days to the schedule.

Press Esc to save the Business Closed Days schedule.

To edit a list of business closed days:

From the System > System Files menu, select Business Closed Days Maintenance to display the Business Closed Days screen.
To add a date to the list, do the following:
Position the cursor on the date that follows the date to enter. For example, to insert a date between 01/01/04 and 5/24/04, position the cursor on 05/24/04.
Press Alt-Insert.
Type the date.
Press Enter to add the date to the list.

Note: If you add a date to an existing list and do not insert a blank line at the cursor position, the date you enter replaces the date at the cursor. If the date you enter is out of sequence in the list, a message notifies you that the date must fall between the date above and the date below the cursor.

To delete a date, position the cursor on the date and press Alt-Delete.
To clear all dates from the list, use the Clear hot key.
Press Esc to save your changes.