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Chapter 5 Configuring System Components
Configuring Holiday Lists
Year-Specific Holidays
• Cisco Unity Express supports up to three year-specific holiday lists for: the previous year, the
current year, and the next year. If a year has no configured entries, the system handles that year as
having no year-specific holidays.
For example, if the current year is 2005 and you have not configured entries for 2006 (the next year),
the system handles 2006 as having zero (0) holidays. You may configure holidays for 2005 and 2006
(the next year) but not for 2007.
• Each year-specific list can contain a maximum of 26 holidays.
• By default, all three year-specific holiday lists are empty.
• The administrator can delete entries from a previous year list but cannot add or modify that list in
any other way.
• The system automatically deletes the previous year list at the beginning of the new calendar year.
• For example, the system will delete the 2004 holiday list on January 1, 2006.
• To copy holidays from one year to the next, use the GUI option Copy all to next year under System
> Holiday Settings.
Fixed Holidays
• Fixed holidays are permanent holidays which apply to all years and do not need to be re-configured
year after year (unlike year-specific holidays). If a holiday falls on the same date every year, those
may be configured as fixed holidays.
For example, if your business is always closed on January 1st for New Year celebrations, then you
may configure January 1st as a fixed holiday.
• A maximum of 10 fixed holidays can be configured on the system.
• By default, there are no fixed holidays configured on the system.
• Fixed holidays may overlap with year-specific holidays. If you create a year-specific holiday
• that overlaps with a fixed holiday, a warning is issued. However, no warning is issued if you try to
create a fixed holiday that overlaps with a year-specific holiday.
To configure holiday lists, use the graphical user interface (GUI) System > Holiday Settings option or
the command-line interface (CLI) commands described in this section.
Using the Holiday Lists
The Cisco Unity Express Editor provides a step “Is Holiday” that checks the holidays configured on the
system to determine whether the specified date is a holiday or not. The step takes as input the date to
check against the holiday list. See the Cisco Unity Express Guide to Writing and Editing Scripts for more
information on steps.
For example, you can use the “Is Holiday” step in your script to check if the current day is a holiday. If
it is a holiday, you can play a customized greeting to the caller, such as “We are closed today. If this is
an emergency, please call 1-222-555-0150 for assistance. Otherwise, please call back later.”