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Copying and Deleting Schedules
After you create a daily schedule for one day, you can copy it to another day. This is ideal for creating
a new daily schedule that requires some or all of the events defined in an existing schedule. For
example, if a building shuts down early on Friday, you can create a schedule for Monday-Thursday,
copy it to Friday, and then edit a CLOSED event, for example, so that it occurs earlier.
To copy a schedule, follow these steps:
1. Right-click the day with the schedule to be copied and then click Copy Schedule on the shortcut
menu.
2. Right-click the day to which the schedule is to be copied and then click Paste Schedule on the
shortcut menu.
3. Click Submit.
To delete a daily schedule, right-click the day with the schedule to be deleted and then click Delete
Schedule on the shortcut menu. The events for the selected day and any other days using the same
daily schedule are removed.
Creating the Exception Schedule
You can create an Exception Schedule for a Scheduler. An Exception Schedule is an alternate Daily
Schedule that is used on one date over a specific interval (a one-time exception), over a range of dates
(an exception), or over a range of dates in a specific pattern (a recurring exception). You can create
exceptions in the Event Scheduler to apply the exceptions to the current Event Scheduler or to all the
Event Schedulers on the SmartServer.
You can create three types of exceptions:

One-time exceptions. One-time exceptions occur over a user-defined interval on a single calendar
date. You can use one-time exceptions to schedule special events, such as building maintenance,
for a period of time on a given date.
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Exceptions. Exceptions occur on a range of user-specified dates. One example of when an
exception could be used is a building shutdown over a long holiday. Another use of an exception
would be holidays such as Chinese New Year where the dates vary each year based on the lunar
calendar. You can also use the exception schedule to schedule events to occur at sunrise and
sundown or a specified period of time before or after.
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Recurring exceptions. Recurring exceptions occur in a certain pattern over a range of
user-specified dates. One example of when a recurring exception could be used is inventory for a
retail store. Inventory typically occurs once a month on a specific day such as the last Sunday of
the month. Another example is holidays such as Thanksgiving, which occurs on the fourth
Thursday of November, or New Year’s Day, which occurs January 1
st .
After you create two or more of these exceptions, you can create an exception group and add
exceptions to it. The exceptions will then implement the schedule you create for the exception group.
You can also edit and delete the exceptions and exception groups.
After you create exceptions and exception groups, you can add events to their schedules just as you
were creating a daily schedule.
Note: You can also create exceptions and apply them to all the Event Schedulers on the SmartServer
using the Event Calendar. See Using the Event Calendar in this chapter for how to do this.
Creating One-Time Exceptions
You can create a one-time exception to apply an alternate schedule to specific interval on a single
calendar date such as 05:00 to 08:00 on May 20, 2007, or 15:00 to 20:00 on December 21, 2008. You
can create a one-time exception in the Event Scheduler to apply it to the current Event Scheduler or to
all the Event Schedulers on the SmartServer.