Creating Calendars
Creating a Calendar
Step 1 | From the Automation Center navigation pane, select Other > Calendars. The Calendars list displays. Note System Default, the default system calendar, defines the work week. |
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Step 2 | Enter / select Details for a new Calendar, using the field descriptions below as a guide.
To display more of the Details fields on the screen, you can either:
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Step 3 | Click a Save button. The Calendar is added to the database, and all buttons and tabs in the Details are enabled. |
Note
To open an existing record on the list, either:
Click a record in the list to display its record Details below the list. (To clear record Details below the list, click the New button that displays above and below the Details.)
Clicking the Details icon next to a record name in the list, or right-click a record in the list and then click Open in the Action menu that displays, to display a pop-up version of the record Details.
Right-click a record in the a list, or open a record and right-click in the record Details, and then click Open In Tab in the Action menu that displays, to display the record Details under a new tab on the record list page (see Record Details as Tabs).
Calendars List Columns
The following Field Picker pop-up dialog identifies the Calendars list columns that are:
Visible by default.
Available to be made visible.
Calendar Details
The following Calendar Details is for an existing Calendar.
See the field descriptions, below, for a description of all fields that display in the Calendar Details.
For information on how to access additional details - such as Metadata and complete database Details - for Calendars (or any type of record), see Records.
Calendar Details Field Descriptions
The following table describes the fields, buttons, and tabs that display in the Calendar Details.
Field Name | Description |
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Details | This section contains detailed information about the Calendar. |
Name | |
Member of Business Services | |
Description | |
Business Days | |
First Day Of Week | |
1st Quarter Start | |
2nd Quarter Start | |
3rd Quarter Start | |
4th Quarter Start | |
Version | |
Metadata | This section contains Metadata information about this record. |
UUID | Universally Unique Identifier of this record. |
Updated By | Name of the user that last updated this record. |
Updated | Date and time that this record was last updated. |
Created By | Name of the user that created this record. |
Created | Date and time that this record was created. |
Buttons | This section identifies the buttons displayed above and below the Task Details that let you perform various actions. |
Save | Saves a new task record in the Controller database. |
Save & New | Saves a new record in the Controller database and redisplays empty Details so that you can create another new record. |
Save & View | Saves a new record in the Controller database and continues to display that record. |
New | Displays empty (except for default values) Details for creating a new record. |
Update | |
Calendar Preview | Provides a month-by-month display, for the number of years specified in the Calendar Preview Period In Years Universal Controller system property (starting from the end of the current year), of all Custom Days defined for this calendar. |
Delete | |
Refresh | Refreshes any dynamic data displayed in the Details. |
Close | For pop-up view only; closes the pop-up view of this calendar. |
Update | |
Tabs | This section identifies the tabs across the top of the Task Details that provide access to additional information about the task instance. |
Local Custom Days | |
Custom Days | Note The Custom Days tab displays in Calendar Details only if the Custom Day Global Permitted Universal Controller system property is set to true. |
Triggers | Lists all triggers that use this calendar. |
Versions |