Public holidays are currently handled within OpenVPMS schedules by using calendar blocks.
This requires users to add public holidays per schedule. To avoid repetition, provide a way to:

• create a calendar to record public holidays
• indicate how holidays affect schedules i.e. do they prevent scheduling or are they informational
• allow holidays to be restricted to particular locations, to support regional holidays
• display public holidays within a schedule

Calendar configuration

A single holiday calendar may created in Administration - Organisation.

This will support defining repeating holidays in a similar manner to how calendar blocks or repeating appointments are defined.

Location-specific behaviour

Different practice locations may have different requirements for particular holidays e.g.

• one location may be open between 10am and 2pm and another closed
• the holiday may be local rather than state-wide

This will be supported by allowing each holiday to:

• list the practice locations it applies to
• for each location, indicate:
  • if the location is closed; or
  • the open and close times

Multiple holidays on a given day will initially not be supported.

Schedule Display

• If a holiday prevents scheduling, the schedule for that day is greyed out.
• If a holiday indicates open and close times, the region outside the times are greyed out. This overrides the Start Time and End Time for the schedule.
• If a holiday is informational, it displays like a calendar block that can be scheduled over

Online Booking

• The location associated with a schedule will be used to determine what holidays apply to that schedule.
• If a holiday prevents scheduling no free slots will be returned for the day
• If a holiday indicates open and close times, free slots returned will be limited by those times.
  If the schedule has Online Booking Times, these will further limit the times
  e.g.
  • if a holiday has times 10am - 2pm, and the Online Booking Times for the day are 9am - 5pm,
    the holiday times take precedence.
  • if a holiday has times 9am - 4pm, and the Online Booking Times for the day are 10am - 5pm,
    the free slots returned will be between 10am and 4pm
• If a holiday is informational, calendar blocks determine the free slots

Rostering

TO DO

Service Ratios

There is currently no requirement to integrate holiday calendars with service ratios.