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4.2.2.2 Schedules continued
Menu Data
Device ID
This field selects the device to which the schedule is to be applied.
Pending Action
This field indicates the action to be fired according to the schedule.
Time
This setting controls the time that the scheduled action will be fired.
The time and date chosen must be in the future. The default setting is
10 minutes from the current time.
Date/Start Date
For schedules that will only fire once, this is the date that the scheduled
control will be executed.
For all other schedules, this is the start date for scheduling the control
to be executed. The date and time chosen must be in the future. The
default setting is the current date.
Interval
The interval is valid only for daily, weekly and monthly schedules. This is
the number of days, weeks or months between executions of the chosen
control. For example, an interval of 2 for a daily schedule means that it
would happen every other day. The default for interval is 1.
Day of Week
This is the day of the week that the scheduled control should be
executed. It is used for weekly schedules and for monthly/yearly
schedules using a relative day selection such as “first Thursday.”
Day of Month
This setting is used for monthly and yearly schedules. It specifies the
day of the month that the schedule should be executed.
Month
This setting is used for yearly schedules only. This is the month that the
yearly scheduled control should be executed.
Relative Days
This setting is used for monthly and yearly schedules. It allows a relative
day of a month to be specified. The valid relative day selection are:
•First
•Second
•Third
•Fourth
•Last
It is used in combination with the day of the week to choose a relative
day of the month like “last Friday” for a monthly schedule or “third
Thursday of July” for a yearly schedule.
Until
For daily, weekly, monthly and yearly schedules, the user also needs to
specify how long the schedule is in effect. The valid choices are:
•Forever–theschedulewillexecuteduntilitisdeleted
•EndDate–theschedulewillbeexecuteduntilthespecieddate.
•NumberofRepetitions–theschedulewillbeexecutedforthe
specified number of times.
Automatic Removal of Schedule
A schedule will be automatically removed when it has fired for the last
time. The conditions that will cause the schedule to be removed are:
•Onetimeschedulehasbeenexecuted.
•TheUntilEndDatehasbeenreached.
•TheUntilNumberofRepetitionshasbeenreached.
Note: To have access to the schedules menus, the user must have at
least Read access to the SCHEDULES facility. Because controls and
loads can be scheduled, the user should have at least read access to
the DEVICE CONTROLS and DEVICE LOADS facilities as well.