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Holiday Scheduling

Alan Eidson

August 27, 2018 18:23

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I currently have several BS players that play presentations using 'non-stop' events in the schedule.

I've set up a 9-5/7 schedule using clock/time events.

For the daily schedule: 'clock/time' events for the specified times to 'Enable Power-save' at 5pm and 'Disable Power-save' at 9am.

For exceptions in the daily schedule, in case the programs need to run after hours: I'm doing it manually on the App, via UDP events within the main presentation that overrides by disabling or enabling the power-save mode. The normal power-save routine is not affected.

For holidays, when the facility is closed: I'm using UDP event that switches presentations to one that doesn't have 'clock/time' events cycling the power-save mode on or off as the main presentation does. To resume normal scheduling, UDP event switching back to main presentation. 

What's a good way to automate a holiday schedule that would enable/disable power-save mode and would dynamically adjust from year to year?

I've been searching support entries for quite a while, but haven't found which direction that I should take to do this. 

 

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  Lyndon August 31, 2018 00:01

   

  when you publish a schedule in brightauthor, you can drag a presentation into an already active schedule and it will give you the option ot have the new item interrupt the existing schedule. So, you can have one thing scheduled all day/everyday, and another that only plays on July 4th, and another that only plays fridays at 3pm, and on and on. You can have multiple interrupting items that only play on specific days and times or every day at a certain time. 

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  Alan Eidson August 31, 2018 15:11

  For sure, scheduling known...static dates are fairly easy.   A once a year repeating schedule is not really an option, unless you change all the holiday dates on your New Year's break!  Another thing about some holidays, is they don't always stay on the same date... especially Easter.  Easter, of course, is not a "government' holiday and is different in the west than eastern observing countries.   So the real theme of my query is achieving an automated holiday schedule... without having to re-program the hard dates for the year.  

  I've pretty much resolved with just going with a java-script solution and generating dates with two formulas... typical yearly repeating and the newer western formula and controlling my superstates with HTML.