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Work Hours Schema is used to determine how many hours of work log an employee should enter for a specific day. But work hours schema is not the only criteria that determines required work hours for a day, it is also affected by holiday schema. Using these two criteria, a required work hour is calculated for each user for each day. Calculated amount is shown on as tooltip of corresponding table cellcel in the timesheet. If calculated required work hours for a day is 0, that cell is shown as if it is a weekend.
Work hours schema of also determines how duration expressions like 1w, 2d etc. are interpreted. Work hours schema can override "days per week" and "hours per day" setting of JIRA and if a user in a custom work hours schema logs work "w" and "d" expressions are interpreted accordingly.
Listing Work Hour Schemas
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Click on "Add Schema" button on top left-hand side of schema list. Following Add Schema Dialog will be opened.
You need to enter schema name, description of the schema and , daily work hours for each day and days per week and hours per day values. To enter daily work hours you can either use up and down arrows in the box or directly enter work hour with keyboard. Total work hours in the week will be displayed on the right end. When you press Add button, new schema will be added to schema list. Don't forget that, schema name should be unique
"Days per Week" and "Hours per Day" settings are only used when entering work logs. They are set to JIRA's own "days per week" and "hours per day" values when a schema is first created but you can update them per schema. If you set daily work hours to 8 and days per week to 5 in a schema and if a user from that schema enters a work log with "1w" expression, that work log will register 8*5 = 40h work to issue.
Editing a schema is the same. Open the dialog in edit mode by pressing the "Edit" link corresponding to the schema you want to edit.
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