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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:
- a basic Monday to Saturday working week is defined as an Included Frequency and
- National Holidays and regularly occurring days are defined as Excluded Frequencies and are "removed" from the basic working week.
Note that the . The advantages and disadvantages of using a single Working Day Calendar - as described here - in comparison with the use of using separate Working and Non-Working day Calendars Day calendars have already been described in the Calendar Use Cases - Managing Working Day Calendars article.
Article Scope
This article describes how to configure a basic Calendars calendars and builds on the first two Use Case use case articles in which the configuration procedure was described in detail:
- Calendar Use Cases - Managing Working Day Calendars
- Calendar Use Cases - Managing Working Day and Non-Working Day Calendars
Feature Availability
The Calendar feature is was introduced with JobScheduler
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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 the Order.
Calendar Configuration
The configuration is implemented within a single Working Day Calendar, Valid From 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2019, as and is summarized in the following table:
| Frequency Type | Frequency | Valid From | Valid To |
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| Included | Basic business week: Monday to Saturday | - | - |
| Excluded | National Holidays 2017 | - | - |
| Excluded | National Holidays 2018 | - | - |
| Excluded | National Holidays 2019 | - | - |
| Excluded | Last Saturday in Month for August to mid-November 2018 | 1st Aug 2018 | 18th Nov 2018 |
The following screenshots will summarize the main configuration stages required for the different components - called Frequencies - 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 that are linked in the Introduction.
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The Calendar itself will appear as shown in the next screenshot:
The included frequency days are shown in blue and the excluded frequency days are in orange. This allows the last Saturdays in the months of August to November can to be readily identified in orange, as can the National Holidays, along with the National Holidays. The select box at the top right of the window, which is showing All Frequencies in the screenshot above, can be used to show a preview for individual frequencies if required.
Order Run-time Configuration
Assigning the Calendar to an Order
The Calendar is assigned to an Order - in this case order_cal-001 - in the Set Run-time modal window, which is opened by from the Additional Options (ellipsis symbol) menu in the Job Chains or Orders views.