How Schedules and Holidays work together
A schedule is either active or inactive. When you configure a schedule, you select the days of the week when the schedule is active. You also select the time periods in each day when the schedule is active. While a schedule is active, objects that reference that schedule perform any behaviors that are configured to occur.
For example, you configure an event to arm an intrusion zone, and you configure a schedule to control when the event can activate. When the schedule becomes active, the event arms the intrusion zone, and the intrusion zone remains armed while the schedule is active.
Similarly, holidays are either active or inactive. Holidays can affect schedules if the holidays are members of a holiday group that applies to the schedule. You can add holiday groups to a schedule to adjust that the schedule’s activation and inactivation.
- A holiday is active during the periods that are specified on the holiday general tab.
- A holiday group is active if any holiday that is a member of the group is active.
- You can add holiday groups to a schedule. You cannot add individual holidays to a schedule.
- A holiday group can be referenced in a schedule by adding it to the When These Holiday Groups Are Active, do not Activate Schedule section of the schedule’s holiday tab. When any holiday in the holiday group is active, the schedule is treated as inactive.
- You can create a holiday override that changes the behavior of a holiday group that normally applies to the schedule. To create a holiday override, add a holiday group to the When These Holiday Groups Are Active, Activate Schedule Only During Times Specified Below section of the schedule’s holiday tab and specifying a schedule start time and schedule end time. During this time period, the schedule is active. Outside the override interval, the schedule is inactive.
- The pre-configured Always, Never, and Nightly schedules are never overridden by holidays. The Always schedule is always active. The Never schedule is never active. The Nightly schedule is active every night between 2:17 AM and 2:41 AM.
- All controllers and the C•CURE 9000 server can process partial-day holidays if the holiday is a non-recurring type. You cannot configure partial-days for recurring holidays. A partial-day holiday is defined as any holiday that does not cover a full 24-hour period, from midnight to midnight.