Introduction

Calendars provide a method for specifying the days on which scheduling events can occur.

Calendars specify rules for recurring days and lists of days that are used by JS7 - Schedules to create orders for the JS7 - Daily Plan.

• Any number of Calendars can be defined for working days or for non-working days.
• In addition, a Calendar can hold both working days and non-working days combined.
  • An example is a business day Calendar specifying Monday to Friday for job execution. A second calendar can specify public holidays for which no job execution should occur. 
  • Users can combine both calendar types when used with a Schedule and they can create a single Calendar that combines both working days and non-working days.

Calendars

Basics

Introduction

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Description

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Calendar Types

Calendars are configured for either working days or non-working days:

• A working day Calendar specifies Working day Calendars specify the business days for which orders for workflow executions execution are targetedscheduled.
• Non-working days include days for which workflows should not be executedday Calendars specify days that are excluded from workflow execution.

Both calendar types can be combined with precedence being given to non-working days for any overlapping days.

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Handling of days in both types of Calendars is simplified through the managed by use of Frequencies. Typical Frequencies include for example:

• Weekdays: Monday to Friday, every week,
• Specific Weekdays: every first Friday, every last Monday in month
• Specific Days: days selected from a yearly calendar
• Month Days: 3rd of month, last of month, last-3 of month
• Recurring Days: every 2nd last day in every month,
• National Holidays: for a country for the particular year.

Frequencies can be inclusive and exclusive, allowing a number of approaches to Calendar configuration to be adopted in line with legacy procedures.

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Management

Calendars are managed in the Calendars node of the Configuration-> Inventory >Inventory view of the JOC Cockpit. In addition, Calendars are visible with the Resources-> Calendars >Calendars view.

Once they have been configured, one or more Calendars can be assigned to Schedules as required.

Assigned Calendars can also be modified with modifications being applied to all Schedules that use the respective Calendar.

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Use with Schedules

The Calendar user interface can be used to define the Run-Times, i.e. the days and times for which Orders are to be run. Here the Run-Time is saved as part of the configuration of the Schedule that creates orders,

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Deployment

Export and import functions allow the bulk deployment of Calendars, for example, when updating non-working day information on a production system.

The Calendar deployment procedure is described in the JS7 - Calendar Deployment article.

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