The project spans a stretch of holidays. Now what?
You have a project due at the end of the month, and there’s a public holiday in the middle.
You open a calendar and start counting working days manually — when does the holiday start? Are there any makeup days? Do those count?
Halfway through counting, you second-guess yourself and start over.
You fill in the number, keep scheduling stages, and still have a nagging feeling you got it wrong.
Working days aren’t the same as calendar days
When you schedule stages by day count, you’re thinking in working days. But the calendar has days in it that don’t actually count.
A ten-day stage might have weekends, public holidays, or company holidays scattered through it. Those days exist on the calendar, but they’re not working days.
For a two-or-three-week project the gap might be manageable. But once you’re crossing a long holiday weekend or multiple consecutive holidays, the error can compound to several days — or more than a week.
The fix: tell the system which days aren’t working days
Once you set up holidays in Nimoo, the timeline automatically skips those dates in all calculations. Every stage’s day count will always mean working days, not calendar days.
No manual counting. The system makes sure your timeline dates are accurate.
Example: campaign project spans a public holiday week
A production company has a campaign going live in early March. Kickoff is late January. The project runs through a week-long national holiday in between, with one makeup working day included.
What to do:
- Open “Working Day Settings” in the project settings
- Add the holiday range: select the start and end dates of the holiday period
- If there’s a makeup day (an originally off day that’s now a working day), mark that date as a working-day exception
- Confirm — the timeline recalculates all stage placements, skipping the holiday and counting the makeup day
- Review the timeline to confirm each stage lands where expected given your working-day counts
Example: the company has internal non-working days
A design studio takes a few company trip days and internal training days each year. These aren’t public holidays and won’t appear on a standard calendar.
What to do:
- In holiday settings, manually add these dates as “Non-working Days”
- The system adds them to its exclusion list — all timeline calculations skip these dates
- Every new project going forward uses the same settings — no need to re-enter them each time
Set it once, every stage benefits
Holiday settings apply at the project level — you don’t configure them per stage.
Once they’re set, it doesn’t matter if you add stages later, adjust day counts, or drag boundaries: the system always calculates based on accurate working days. Holidays stay holidays, and they won’t accidentally get counted as work time.
Summary
| Situation | What to do |
|---|---|
| Project spans a public holiday period | Add the holiday range in Working Day Settings |
| Holiday period includes a makeup working day | Mark the makeup day as a working-day exception |
| Company has custom non-working days | Add them as non-working days — applies to all future projects |
| Want to verify holidays are excluded | Preview the timeline and check that stage placements match your expected working-day counts |
Once the holidays are set up, working-day counts stop being a guessing game — the system knows which days count and which ones don’t.