Overview

Creating a Global Holidays List

1. In your Zoho Forms account, click the  icon on the left in the forms listing page to access the Control Panel.
   
   
   
   
2. Click Global Holidays List under Customization.
   
   
   
   
3. Click Create New List.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. In the pop-up, enter a name for the list and click Add Holidays/ Add Holidays Range under the Date and Date Range tabs respectively.
   
   
   
   
5. Enter a name for the holiday and select the date or date range as required.
   
   
   
    
   
   
   

   Note: When choosing a date range, you can only select an end date that falls within a range of 500 days from the chosen start date.
6. Click Create.
   
7. Once created, you will see all the lists as shown.
   
   
   
   
   

1. Edit the list
   
2. Publish the list to your organization for other members in your organization to use the list in their forms
   
3. Translate the holiday names in the list so that they appear in the corresponding languages in translated forms.
   
4. View the forms that the holiday list is associated with
   

1. You can create a maximum of 20 global holidays lists.
   
2. You can have a maximum of 25 dates and 10 date ranges within a global holiday list.

Associating a Global Holidays List with a form

When you associate a Global Holidays List with a form, all the Date and Date-Time fields in that form will have calendars that show up the holidays as disabled for the respondents to pick appropriate days other than the holidays.

1. In your form builder navigate to the Settings tab > General > Date & Time.
   
2. Select the required holiday list from the Holidays List dropdown. To view the holidays within the selected list click the view icon.
   
3. If you wish to view the holidays configured in the selected holiday list, click the view icon corresponding to the selected holiday list in the dropdown.
   
1. The holiday lists created by you will be listed under My List.
   
2. Any holiday list published to the organization will be listed under Org List.
   
3. If the ownership of the form has been changed to you, it will be listed separately in the dropdown and not below My List or Org List. This holiday list cannot be associated with any of your other forms.
   
   
   
   
4. Click Save.

Managing the Global Holidays Lists

Updating a Global Holidays List

1. Hover over the holiday list that you wish to update.
   
2. Click the Edit icon corresponding to the list as shown.
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Make the required changes to the dates or date ranges and click Update.
   

Viewing the usage of a Global Holidays List

Publishing a Global Holidays List to your organization

1. Hover over the holiday list that you wish to publish to the organization.
   
2. Click the Publish to Org icon as shown.
   
   
   
3. Click Yes to continue.
   
4. Once published, the list will be represented by an icon to indicate that it's shared with the organization.
   
   
   
   
5. If you wish unpublish the holiday list to your organization, click the Unpublish to Org icon as shown.
   
   
   

Translating holiday names to another language

1. Hover over the holiday list that you wish to translate.
   
2. Click the Translate icon as shown.
   
   
   
   
3. Select the language that you wish to translate the holiday names into from the dropdown and click Translate. 
   
4. You will see the translated version of the holiday names. You can edit the translations manually if you wish to and click Save.
   The list of the languages that the holiday names have been translated into can be seen as shown.
   
   
5. If you have modified a holiday list after saving the translated holiday names, you will have to re-translate the modified holiday names for the changes to reflect in the corresponding live translated form.
   
   To re-translate holiday names, click the edit icon corresponding to the language that you wish to re-translate into, click Edit manually, make the changes and click Re-translate.
   
   
   
   
   
   

Note:

1. You can translate the holiday names to a maximum of 10 languages.
   
2. Ensure that the holiday list is translated into the same language as the translated form. This ensures that the translated form loads with the holiday names displayed in the same translated language.
3. If a form is shared in a language that doesn't correspond to the languages the holiday list has been translated into, the holiday names in the Date and Date-Time field calendars of the form will be displayed in the default language.
   
4. The option to translate a holidays list to other languages is supported only in our paid plans.
   

Delete a Global Holidays List

1. Hover over the holiday list that you wish to delete.
   
2. Click the delete icon as shown.
   
   
   

If the holiday list that you wish to delete is associated with any forms, you will have to first remove their association with the list before you can delete it.