Holiday

Represents a period of time during which your customer support team is unavailable. Business hours and escalation rules associated with business hours are suspended during any holidays with which they are affiliated.

Supported Calls

create(), update(), delete(), query(), retrieve()

Special Access Rules

Customer Portal users cannot access this object.

Fields

Field	Field Type	Field Properties	Description
ActivityDate	date	Create Filter Nillable Update	If the Holiday IsAllDay flag is set to `true` (indicating that it is an all-day holiday), then the holiday due date information is contained in the ActivityDate field. This field is a date field with a timestamp that is always set to midnight in the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) time zone. The timestamp is not relevant, and you should not attempt to alter it to account for any time zone differences.
Description	string	Create Filter Nillable Update	Text description of the holiday.
EndTimeInMinutes	int	Create Filter Nillable Update	The end time of the holiday in minutes.
IsAllDay	boolean	Create Defaulted on create Filter Update	Indicates whether the duration of the holiday is all day (`true`) or not (`false`).
IsRecurrence	boolean	Create Defaulted on create Filter	Indicates whether the holiday is scheduled to repeat itself (`true`) or only occurs once (`false`). This is a read only field on update, but not on create. If this field value is `true`, then any recurrence fields associated with the given recurrence type must be populated.
Name	string	Create Filter Update	The name of the holiday.
RecurrenceDayOfMonth	int	Create Filter Nillable Update	The day of the month on which the holiday repeats.
RecurrenceDayOfWeekMask	int	Create Filter Nillable Update	The day or days of the week on which the holiday repeats. This field contains a bitmask. For each day of the week, the values are as follows: Sunday = 1 Monday = 2 Tuesday = 4 Wednesday = 8 Thursday = 16 Friday = 32 Saturday = 64 Multiple days are represented as the sum of their numerical values. For example, Tuesday and Thursday = 4 + 16 = 20.
RecurrenceEndDateOnly	date	Create Filter Nillable Update	The last date on which the holiday repeats. For multiday recurring events, this is the day on which the last occurrence starts.
RecurrenceInstance	picklist	Create Filter Nillable Restricted picklist Update	The frequency of the recurring holiday. For example, “2nd” or “3rd.”
RecurrenceInterval	int	Create Filter Nillable Update	The interval between recurring holidays.
RecurrenceMonthOfYear	picklist	Create Filter Nillable Restricted picklist Update	The month of the year on which the event repeats.
RecurrenceStartDate	date	Create Filter Nillable Update	The date when the recurring holiday begins. Must be a date and time before RecurrenceEndDateOnly.
RecurrenceType	picklist	Create Filter Nillable Restricted picklist Update	Indicates how often the holiday repeats. For example, daily, weekly, or every Nth month (where “Nth” is defined in RecurrenceInstance).
StartTimeInMinutes	int	Create Filter Nillable Update	The start time of the holiday in minutes.

Usage

Use this object to view and update holidays, which specify dates and times at which associated business hours and escalation rules are suspended. For more information on holidays, see “Setting Holidays” in the Salesforce.com online help.