HosPortal automatically adds proclaimed public holidays in each state. If you want to add additional days that behave like holidays, such as shut-down days, then you can add a 'site holiday'. You can also remove them.
Note that industry-specific holidays, such as health industry bonus holidays around new year, are not automatically added and need to be added by your site administrators when those dates are confirmed.
Not all holidays affect all roster groups. It is possible to create a holiday that affects only one roster group, such as clinical allocations, and not others, such as on-call shifts.
You also need to delete any active auto-builds or cancel any active self-rosters before adding a new site holiday.
Site holidays are managed under the Site holiday menu on the Admin page (see A).
When you change the holiday status of a day, you will be asked to confirm the changes to a published or draft shift on that day. Depending on your roster structure, the existing staff's shift may be changed from a 12-hr shift to a 24-hr shift, or another 12-hr shift may be created as a vacant slot that needs to be filled.
To add a site holiday, click Add+ and enter the date and name of the holiday. Holidays need to be added individually: it is not possible to add a repeating site holiday.
To delete a site holiday, click Edit next to the relevant date and delete it. You will not have the option to edit the site holiday if there are any drafted shifts.
Once you have changed the holiday status, you can then draft and publish your shifts from templates.
If you want to add a shift that does not adopt the standard holiday setting (e.g. add a shift on a holiday using the normal shift timing, or use holiday timing for a shift on a normal weekday) you will need to add it as an ad hoc shift: it cannot be created from the templates.