Operational Hours
Operational Hours is where you tell Astravue which days your team works and what counts as a working hour. Once it's set, every task duration, start date, and due date in your projects is calculated against it automatically, so weekends, holidays, and non-working days never get counted as project time by mistake.
Why this setting matters
Most missed deadlines don't come from bad work. They come from plans that ignore the days nobody was working. Operational Hours fixes that. Set it up once, and every task calculates its dates against your real working calendar, not just the days on a page.
How to set up Operational Hours
Go to Instance Configuration and open Operational Hours.
Turn the toggle ON. This activates operational hours for your entire workspace. When it's off, Astravue treats every calendar day as a working day.
Click Edit to open the configuration scree
Choose your operating model:
Standard hours, if your team works within a defined window each day, for example 10:00 AM to 07:00 PM.
Round the clock (24 hours), if your team or service genuinely operates all day, every working day.
Set your working days. Check or uncheck each day of the week. Unchecked days are automatically marked as non-working days and are excluded from every task calculation.
Customize hours per day, if needed. Each day can have its own start time, end time, and mode. A team that closes early on Fridays doesn't need to force every day into one shape.
Click Update to save. The new calendar applies immediately to every task and project going forward.
How Operational Hours affects task dates
Once your calendar is set, two things happen automatically inside every task:
Enter a duration and a start date, get the due date. If a task is set to take 5 working days and starts on a Thursday, Astravue calculates the due date by counting only working days, skipping weekends and any day marked non-working.
Change the due date, get the start date. The same logic runs in reverse. Move a due date because a client pushed the timeline, and the start date recalculates to match, still respecting your working hours and non-working days.
Nobody on the team has to remember to subtract weekends by hand, and no task silently expects work on a day nobody is scheduled to do it.
