Working patterns can be maintained for the organization on the whole, as well as for each individual user. The organization working patterns are the default working patterns for the system users, but these defaults are overridden by an individual user's working pattern. Each working pattern covers the working hours for a 14 day period which starts on a Monday and ends on the second Sunday. Note that an end date does not have to be set for a working pattern. In which case, the 14 day period will repeat indefinitely. The organization and each user can have multiple working patterns but the dates of those patterns cannot overlap.
Standard working hours are set for a working pattern, e.g., from 9 AM to 5 PM. Any hours outside this standard are defined as either non-standard or non-working hours. For example, the organization may have a half-day every second Friday. As such, the working hours for the second Friday can be set as non-standard working hours from 9 AM to 1PM. Non-working hours can be added for one or more days in a working pattern and automatically apply to a full day, i.e, a full non-working day.