Working with holidays and zones

This topic describes how to work with holidays in the user interface.

The Applies to All Zones field has no effect in PolicyCenter. The application always behaves as if Applies to All Zones is Yes.

Holiday permissions

The following system permissions control whether you can view the Holidays screen and edit the holidays.

  • holidayview
  • holidaymanage

To determine which roles have this permission, refer to the Security Dictionary.

Add a holiday

Before you begin

To add a holiday, the PolicyCenter user must be logged in with administrator privileges.

Procedure

  1. From the Administration tab, select Business Settings > Holidays to open the Holidays screen with its list of holidays.
  2. Click Add Holiday to create a new holiday.
  3. Enter the holiday name, date, and type.
  5. Click Update.

Edit a holiday

Procedure

  1. From the Administration tab, select Business Settings > Holidays to view the Holidays screen and the list of holidays.
  2. Select the holiday to edit by clicking its link in the Holiday column. The holiday’s field values are shown.
  3. Click Edit.
  4. Edit the field values.

    You can assign both Type and Zone to any choices that already exist, but you cannot create new choices for Type or Zone in this screen.

  5. Click Update.

What to do next

You might need to change the Date of some holidays annually.

Delete a holiday

Procedure

  1. From the Administration tab, select Business Settings > Holidays to view the Holidays screen and the list of holidays.
  2. Select the holiday to delete.
  3. Click Delete.

Create a new zone or type

Procedure

  1. In Guidewire Studio, navigate to the typelist that you want to modify.
  2. Edit the typelist fields.
    • Zone Type – Defined by the ZoneType typelist, includes the typecodes city, county, state, province, postalcode, and fsa. You can add other types to this typelist.
    • PolicyCenter does not support Zone Type. The application always behaves as if Applies to All Zones is Yes.
    • State – Defines the states of the United States, Australia, and Germany, provinces of Canada, and prefectures of Japan that are in the State typelist.
    • Type – Defined by the HolidayTagCode typelist. You can add other types to this typelist.

    The HolidayTagCode typelist includes the typecodes General and CompanyHolidays.