--- title: "How to Set the Working Week" description: "Define which days of the week count as working days in Vitextra Absence & Coverage: add the WorkDays row to the Settings list, choose the weekday numbers, see how the setting changes the working-day count of requests and the shading of the Team Absence Calendar." url: https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/10355 language: en published: 2026-10-28 modified: 2026-10-28 author: "Lidija Reising" tags: ["set working week", "WorkDays setting", "SharePoint absence management working days", "change weekend days", "Sunday to Thursday working week", "Monday to Saturday working week", "absence request working days", "Absence & Coverage settings"] --- # How to Set the Working Week Define which days of the week count as working days in Vitextra Absence & Coverage: add the WorkDays row to the Settings list, choose the weekday numbers, see how the setting changes the working-day count of requests and the shading of the Team Absence Calendar. ## Overview Out of the box, Vitextra Absence & Coverage treats Monday to Friday as the working week. Every calendar day of an absence request that falls on another weekday is not counted against the employee's balance. If your company works a different week — for example Sunday to Thursday, or Monday to Saturday — you change this with a single setting, `WorkDays`. The setting is stored as one row in the `Settings` list of the product site. It applies to **all employees** who use that site: there is one working week per site, not one per person or per department. Public holidays are a separate matter and are kept in the `Holidays` list. 📝 **Note** The `Settings` list is created empty together with the other lists, so until you add the row the default working week Monday to Friday is used. Nothing is broken when the row is missing. --- ## Add the WorkDays setting 1. Open the product site — the site that you selected in the web parts — and open the `Settings` list from **Site contents**. 2. Select **New** and fill in the item: - `Title` — `WorkDays` (the key; write it exactly like this, with capital W and D); - `Value` — the weekday numbers separated by commas, for example `1,2,3,4,5`. 3. Save the item and reload the page with the web parts. The setting is read every time a web part loads, so no further action is needed. ![The WorkDays row in the Settings list](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/10355/settings-workdays-row-en.png) *The WorkDays row in the Settings list* To change the working week later, edit the `Value` of the same item. Keep only one row with the key `WorkDays`. --- ## Weekday numbers Each weekday has a number from 0 to 6. List the numbers of the days that **are** working days. | Number | Weekday | |:---|:---| | 0 | Sunday | | 1 | Monday | | 2 | Tuesday | | 3 | Wednesday | | 4 | Thursday | | 5 | Friday | | 6 | Saturday | The order of the numbers does not matter, and spaces around the commas are ignored. Typical values: | Working week | Value | |:---|:---| | Monday to Friday (default) | `1,2,3,4,5` | | Sunday to Thursday | `0,1,2,3,4` | | Monday to Saturday | `1,2,3,4,5,6` | ❗ **Important** Numbers outside 0–6 and entries that are not numbers are ignored. If nothing valid remains — or the `Value` is empty — the default `1,2,3,4,5` is used again. The key `WorkDays` is case-sensitive: a row called `workdays` is not recognised. --- ## What changes in the web parts **Working-day count of a request.** When an employee fills in a request in My Absences, every day from the start date to the end date counts as one day if its weekday is in `WorkDays` and it is not in the `Holidays` list. The panel shows the result in the summary line and uses it for the balance check. Half-day options reduce the first or last day to 0.5, but only if that day is a working day. The count is calculated when the request is submitted and stored with it in the `WorkingDays` column. If you change `WorkDays` later, requests that were already submitted keep the number of days they were saved with. **Team Absence Calendar.** Days that are not working days are shaded in the timeline and in the month view. If the property pane option **Show weekends (timeline)** is switched off, the timeline hides exactly these days — so with `0,1,2,3,4` it hides Friday and Saturday, not Saturday and Sunday. **Worked examples.** The table shows how many days two requests count for under three different working weeks (no public holidays in these dates). | Request | Monday to Friday | Sunday to Thursday | Monday to Saturday | |:---|:---|:---|:---| | Sun 8 Nov – Thu 12 Nov 2026 | 4 | 5 | 4 | | Fri 6 Nov – Mon 9 Nov 2026 | 2 | 2 | 3 | ![The Team Absence Calendar with Friday and Saturday shaded](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/10355/calendar-sunday-thursday-week-en.png) *The Team Absence Calendar with Friday and Saturday shaded* --- ## Good to know - A request that consists only of non-working days has zero working days and cannot be submitted. - The first day of the week in the calendar follows the culture of the page and is independent of `WorkDays`. - Anyone who can edit the `Settings` list can change the working week for the whole site. Because all employees have Member access to the site, consider restricting edit rights on this list to administrators; the web parts still need read access to it. 💡 **Tip** After changing `WorkDays`, check the result with a test request: select a period that contains one of your non-working days and compare the days shown in the summary line with what you expect.