Creating Calendars

Creating Calendars

Creating a Calendar

 

Step 1

From the Automation Center navigation pane, select Other > Calendars. The Calendars list displays.
 
Below the list, Calendar Details for a new Calendar displays.
 


 

Note

System Default, the default system calendar, defines the work week.

Step 2

Enter / select Details for a new Calendar, using the field descriptions below as a guide.

  • Required fields display an asterisk ( * ) after the field name.

  • Default values for fields, if available, display automatically.

To display more of the Details fields on the screen, you can either:

  • Use the scroll bar.

  • Temporarily hide the list above the Details.

  • Click the New button above the list to display a pop-up version of the Details.

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

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