Assigning calendars to resources, skills and projects

Summary: Attach a calendar to a resource, a virtual skill or a project so that scheduling respects that calendar's working hours and non-working days.

Applies to

Property	Value
Product	LYNX-X
Version	28.10.9877.0
Required permissions	Space owner (resources and skills); read and write access to the project (project calendar)
Last updated	2026-11-10
Owner	Support

Before you start

The calendar must already exist. See Setting up a calendar.
Know which resources, virtual skills or projects need a calendar other than the one they have.

Where the calendar belongs

You plan with	The calendar that counts	Set it on
A Normal skill	The calendar of each resource who holds the skill	The resource
A Virtual skill	The skill's own calendar. A virtual skill has no people, so an individual absence cannot be set on it: to give the whole skill fewer working days, for example a four-day week, assign it a calendar with those days	The skill
The project as a whole	The project's calendar	The project

To take one person out for a holiday or a day off, do not change their calendar: set the absence on the resource instead. See Setting a resource's non-availability period.

Procedure

Assign a calendar to a resource

Open Configuration, then select Resources.
Select the resource.
On the Details tab, open the Calendar list and select the calendar. The list offers the calendars that exist in your space.
Select Save in the left rail.

A resource's Calendar field, with the space's calendars

Assign a calendar to a virtual skill

Open Configuration, then select Skills.
Select the skill. Its Skill type is Virtual.
Open the Scheduling tab.
Under Skill calendar, open the Calendar list and select the calendar.
Select Save in the left rail.

The Scheduling tab of a Virtual skill, with its Skill calendar

Assign a calendar to a project

Open the project's Properties, General tab.
Select the calendar in the Calendar field.
Check Hours per day: it must agree with the working hours of the calendar you selected. See Which calendar a task follows.
Select OK. If Save in the left rail then shows a count, select it.

A project's Calendar and Hours per day, on the General tab

Expected outcome

The Calendar field shows the calendar you selected. Which calendar a task then follows, when a project, a skill and a resource each have one, is explained in Which calendar a task follows.

Revision history

Version	Date	Author	Changes
1.0	2026-11-10	Support	New article.

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