Introduction
JobScheduler Calendars can be configured to meet a wide range of business requirements. This article describes how to configure a basic Working Day Calendar.
Configuration Steps
Calendars are created in the Resources / Calendars view by clicking the Add Calendar button as shown in the first screenshot:
This will open the Create Calendar modal window that should be filled out as shown in the next screenshot:
Note that additional fields (Option for Reason, Select Reason, etc.) may be shown at the start of the Create Calendar window. The information for these fields is for the Audit Log and settings in the User's account determine whether or not these fields are shown and are mandatory. See the Reasons setting section of the Audit Log article for more information.
The Name, Type, and Category fields are mandatory, the Path is not required but is used to ....
Setting a Valid To End Date is mandatory, a Valid From Start Date is not. If a Valid From Start Date is not set then the current date will be used.
The Add Frequency button will become active once the above information has been entered. Leave the Included Frequencies tab active.
Frequencies are sets of ... definition
Click on the Add Frequencies button and in the the Weekdays Tab, which is the default tab, fill out the Weekdays section as shown in the next screenshot.
Clicking on the Add Frequency button as shown above will cause the days selected to be noted as shown in the next screenshot.
Note that no configuration information has not yet been saved.
Now deactivate the current date field - in this case the 24th November - by clicking on it once. This will cause the field background to be colored orange.
Now click on the Close button to close the preview and then click on close in the Add Frequencies modal to return to the Create Calendar window.
The Show Year View button could now be used to reopen the Calendar Preview shown above.
Now click on the Submit button to save the configuration and return to the Resources / Calendar view as shown in the next screenshot.
