C•CURE 800/8000 Software Configuration Guide - Tyco Security ...

Holidays OverviewHolidays OverviewA Holiday is a day or set of days you configure to schedule access controlvariations for timed-based events and for the usual lock and unlock times.Example:You can create a Holiday called New Year’s Day, and configure it to occuronce per year on the same date.You can define Holidays with a minimum duration of 1 day and up to amaximum duration of 365 days.Holidays fall into one of the following categories. They are:• Exact – have a specific date.• Relative – occur on a particular day of the week.• Recurring – occur more than once at the same time interval.You can define the following types of Holidays.• Once – a holiday assigned an exact date (day, month, and year).• Yearly – a holiday that occurs once per year, either on an exact date or arelative date (the second weekend day of July.).• Monthly – a holiday that occurs every month on an exact day (23 day ofevery month) or on a relative date (the last weekday of every month).• Weekly – a holiday that occurs every week on a specific weekday (everyThursday).C•CURE 800/8000 lets you configure up to 256 holidays for apC panels andan unlimited number of holidays for iSTAR controllers. Each Holiday mayappear in one or more Holiday Lists. (To see which Holidays are included in aHoliday List, you can run a Holiday report.)By itself, a Holiday has no effect. To have an effect, a Holiday must beincluded in a Holiday List assigned to Time Specification(s) for Host use ordownloaded to iSTAR controller(s) and/or apC panel(s)—whetherautomatically by the system in the Default Holidays mode or manually by userselection in the Distributed Holidays mode.10–2 C•CURE 800/8000 Software Configuration Guide