Creating a Calendar

A calendar defines important characteristics of the year in a way that is appropriate to the type of analysis you want to perform. By default, the calendar is the standard Gregorian calendar. However, the standard Gregorian calendar is not always appropriate.

For example, suppose your company's financial year begins on June 1 instead of January 1. In that case, you could define the first month of the year as June, and the "month of year" time attribute would have June as month 1, July as month 2, and more of the same, as opposed to January as month 1, February as month 2, and more of the same.

  1. Click Manage calendars.
    You are navigated to the Calendars page in the Management Console.
  2. Click the Add calendar button.
  3. In the Calendar name field, give the calendar a name that is meaningful to you.
  4. In the Start month field, select the first month of the year.
    For example, if you select July, then July is month 1, August is month 2, and more of the same.
    Note: Changing the start month affects how the values in these fields are calculated: DayOfYear, MonthNumber, Quarter, and WeekOfYear.
  5. Click Save.