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title: "Holiday plans"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/BPEdc/2534834718/Holiday%20plans"
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You can create unlimited holiday plans to reflect the holidays and observances. Each non-working day resulting from the holiday plan reduces the capacity (daily capacity to zero) of the assigned resource or the team.

> ℹ️ BigPicture can calculate tasks automatically based on the assignee's working days. Jira admins can enable this feature in the BigPicture configuration.

The holidays can be grouped into a set, such as European holidays. If the organization also has offices in the United States, a holiday set can be created for that region. This expedites the planning process as information is easily accessed across the organization.

## Security and access

Only a person with the App admin or App resource admin security role can access this page.

To access this page, go to **Administration **>** Resources **>** Holiday plans**.

![Screenshot of the Holiday plans page in Administration.](media://12fcc9e3-a783-4c19-b72b-9b64f08c8099)

## Holiday modes

The table below shows the difference between available modes:

| **Holiday mode** | **Description** |
| --- | --- |
| Non-working days | The non-working days of the week are marked with a grey circle. |
| Fixed mode | Dates are automatically moved to the next year and marked with a red circle. |
| Floating | Dates are not automatically moved to the next year and are marked with a blue circle. |
| Extra working days | The extra days are marked with a white circle. |

You can view all the holidays and inline edit the holiday name field:

![Screenshot of a calendar with non-working days.](media://8b811f3f-2550-4491-99b6-9190a3f88120)

## Default holiday plan

Each task assignee is automatically assigned to the default holiday plan once a task is added to the box's scope or when the currently assigned plan is deleted.

![Screenshot of the Holiday plans page with a default holiday plan highlighted.](media://a2cfa800-b7e3-4d02-a32a-2a942123bfea)