Create Schedules

Starting with version 1.26, you can find Schedules at the bottom of the Configuration section. You can create your Schedules and use them for the Users and User groups or Events & Actions schedules later. In previous Macula versions, You can find Schedules under the Events & Actions section.

You can also create or reuse existing User-defined calendars for special days based on the particular calendar date and override the regular schedule with exclusive scenarios.

Please be aware that Recording Schedules use their own schedule type. How to create Recording Schedules is described in the corresponding manual section.

Create new schedule

To create a new schedule, go to:

1. Configuration -> Schedules -> New schedule button. A Schedule pop-up window will appear.

2. Fill in the Title field to identify your newly created schedule later.

You will see the Grid View in the Schedule Editor field by default. The grid view has two separate sections - Weekdays and Custom days.

You can mark the table by clicking and holding your mouse button while moving the mouse inside the table with the step of 15 minutes. Marked time means that the schedule is active on those days at that particular time.

You also can switch to the List view by pressing the button List view from the right side over the Schedule editor field. You can create multiple entries inside the List view and edit details later inside the Grid view by selecting the particular entry and clicking the Grid view button.

To add a schedule scenario using the List view:

1. Find the Add and Edit buttons on the bottom-left side inside the Schedule editor field. Click on the Add button. One more pop-up window named Schedule item must appear.

2. Inside the Schedule item pop-up window, you find dropdowns: Day from and Day to, and the Time input fields: Time from and Time to.

3. Select the weekday you want to start your scenario and the day you want to set as the endpoint of the schedule using dropdowns.

4. Setup the "Time from" and "Time To" in your new schedule scenario, and press the OK button to confirm. Time settings apply to each day selected from the dropdowns.

You also can set a Custom day inside the Schedule item pop-up window. Pick Day 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 from the "Day from" dropdown menu, set the timeframe, and press the OK button to confirm.

Weekday schedule

The weekday schedule will repeat itself indefinitely, based on days of the week, unless you override it by the User-defined calendar.

Custom days Schedule

Section Custom Days works differently. You can create five different schedule scenarios that later on can be applied to override the regular schedule. You can utilize it with User-defined calendars.

User-defined calendars

There may be special calendar dates that don't fall into the regular schedule scenario. For such occasions, create or reuse a User-defined calendar.

1. Inside the Schedule pop-up window, click the "Change..." button from the right side of the User-defined calendar field.

2. "User-defined calendars" pop-up window will appear. If you already have some predefined calendar - you can reuse it by selecting it from the list and confirming with the OK button.

This calendar will override your regular schedule on the dates you have set up inside the calendar. All other dates will be executed on your weekday schedule scenario.

To create the new User-defined calendar:

1. Click on the +New user-defined calendar button on the bottom-left of the pop-up window. The new pop-up window will appear.

2. Add the Title to identify the created calendar later.

3. In the left panel of the User-defined calendar window, select the Days tab and click the +Add button.

4. Select the Date from the dropdown menu inside the Day window. Click on the Day field and find the day from the list.

5. Confirm your choice with the OK button.

You can select days from the regular schedule (for example, to make a particular Saturday a working day, pick any working day schedule scenario) or use the five custom days we saw earlier. We can use Custom days inside the calendar to create five different custom scenarios to override our regular schedule on a calendar basis.

When you complete setting up your custom scenarios for the calendar-based schedule, confirm your new calendar inside the parent pop-up window with the Apply and OK buttons.