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The use case described in this article shows how such a combination may be configured within a single Working Day Calendar. The advantages and disadvantages of using a single Working Day Calendar in comparison with the use of separate Working and Non-Working day Calendars have already been described in the Calendar Use Cases - Managing Working Day Calendars article.
Article Scope
This article describes how to configure basic Calendars and builds on the first two Use Case articles in which the configuration procedure was described in detail:
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The Calendar feature is introduced with JobScheduler
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Requirements
This article has been written assuming that a Job Chain and Order has already been configured in a demo/end2end/ folder in the JobScheduler Master's config/live/folder and that the Calender will be assigned to an Order.
Calendar Configuration
The configuration is implemented within a single Working Day Calendar, Valid From 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2019, as summarized in the following table:
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The following screenshots will summarize the different components in the Calendar configuration. Step-by-step descriptions of the individual configuration stages can be found in the two Calendar Use Cases - Managing Working Day ... articles linked in the Introduction.
Basic Calendar Configuration
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Business Week Included Frequency
National Holidays Excluded Frequency
Last Saturday in Month
Calendar Preview
Calendar configuration takes place in the JOC Cockpit's Resources/Calendars view.
The modal window for the basic Calendar configuration information is opened by clicking the add Calendar button in the Resources/Calendars view and will appear as shown in the next screenshot:
Add Business Week Included Frequency
The Monday to Saturday basic business week frequency is added with the Included Frequency tab of the Create Calendar window selected as shown in the previous screenshot. After configuration, the Frequency will appear as shown below:
Add National Holidays Excluded Frequencies
Select the Excluded Frequencies Tab in the Create Calendar window and then add the national holidays, each year forming a separate frequency. In this use case German public holidays are being configured, as shown in the next screenshot:
The Create Calender window will appear as shown once the three Holiday Frequencies have been added:
Last Saturday in Month for three Months
The Specific Weekdays tab is used to configure frequencies such as the last Saturday in the Month and allows a validity period to be set as shown:
The Excluded Frequencies tab will appear as shown in the next screenshot once the four excluded frequencies have been added:
Note that once configured, it is possible to identify National Holidays by the Year and to easily add, edit and delete individual years. However, it is not possible to note the the country which the holidays are for and to separate identify, for example, German and French Holidays for the same year.
Calendar Preview
The final Calendar can now be checked once the frequencies have been specified by clicking the Show Preview button in the Create Calendar modal window as shown above.
The Calendar itself will appear as shown in the next screenshot:
The excluded last Saturdays in the months August to November can be readily identified in orange, as can the National Holidays.