OpenBuildings™ Station Designer Help

Schedules tab

Contains controls used to view and manipulate day, week and year schedules.



SettingDescription
Schedules tab toolbar Contains controls used for creating, copying, and moving schedules between Application and Project folders.
  • New — Used to create new schedules by selecting the Daily, Weekly or Yearly schedules from the pop-up menu. As soon the new schedule option is selected, the new schedule appears in the appropriate schedule data panel (right side of the Schedules Manager dialog). The new schedule must be named, and defined as being of the schedule type OnOff, Percentage, Value, Temperature, or Control in the Day/Week/Year panels on the right side of the Schedules Manager dialog box before the new schedule appears under the appropriate schedule type on the schedules tab.
  • Copy — Used to copy existing schedules. Copied schedules appear under the appropriate schedule type in the Schedules tab with copy appended to the copied schedule names. Copied schedules are then able to be copied from Application to Project folders or vice versa.
  • Copy to Project/Application data — Used to copy schedules between the application folders and the active project and vice versa. The button changes from Project to Application depending upon which mode is active.
Day schedules Lists available System and Project Day schedules. Right clicking on the Day schedules category heading opens a pop-up menu:
  • New – Used to create Day schedules. Selecting New from the pop-up menu activates the Day schedule controls on the Schedules Manager dialog box data panels (right side of the dialog box).
  • Expand all – Click to expand all the Schedules tab’s schedules categories (Day, Week and Year).
  • Collapse all – Click to collapse all the Schedules tab’s schedules categories (Day, Week and Year).
Week schedules Lists available System and Project Week schedules. Right clicking on the Week schedules category heading opens a pop-up menu:
  • New – Used to create Week schedules. Selecting New from the pop-up menu activates the Week schedule controls on the Schedules Manager dialog box data panels (right side of the dialog box).
  • Expand all – Click to expand all the Schedules tab’s schedules categories (Day, Week and Year).
  • Collapse all – Click to collapse all the Schedules tab’s schedules categories (Day, Week and Year).
Year schedules Lists available System and Project Year schedules. Right clicking on the Year schedules category heading opens a pop-up menu:
  • New – Used to create Week schedules. Selecting New from the pop-up menu activates the Year schedule controls on the Schedules Manager dialog box data panels (right side of the dialog box).
  • Expand all – Click to expand all the Schedules tab’s schedules categories (Day, Week and Year).
  • Collapse all – Click to collapse all the Schedules tab’s schedules categories (Day, Week and Year).
Schedules – pop-up menu Right click on any Day, Week or Year Schedule to open their pop-up menus. They contain the following options:
  • New – Used to create a new schedule. The new schedule appears in the same category as the schedule that is right clicked on.
  • Copy – Used to copy an existing schedule. The copied schedule appears in the same category as the schedule that is right clicked on.
  • Copy to Project/Application data – Used to copy schedules between the application folders and the active project and vice versa. The menu item changes from Project to Application data depending upon which mode is active when you are right clicking.
  • Delete – Used to delete schedules. The schedule selected can not be a read only schedule.
  • Rename – Used to rename schedules. Use the Rename options to rename copied schedules.
Note: Pop-up menus are the same for schedules saved to both Application and Project files.