Rule-based Calendar

Sometimes required values cannot simply be specified as absolute values, such as specific days or specific dates, and require complex scheduling rules, as the following situations illustrate:

• To schedule a Job on the last day of the month, clicking 31 in the Month Days area will not work because there are months with 30 days or less.
• You are using a defined calendar, but want to exclude certain days that appear in the calendar.

In such cases, using Rule-based calendars can be helpful. It enables you to define multiple sets of scheduling criteria that can be applied to selected Jobs and Folders.

A Rule-based Calendar provides you with combinations of scheduling options, as described in Rule-based Calendar scheduling options.

You can define Rule-based Calendars (RBCs) to set the Jobs that will be scheduled (included RBCs) in a Job, sub-Folder, and SMART Folder, by adding and selecting the RBCs for the Rule-based Calendar list.

The defined RBCs can also be used to set the dates that will not be scheduled (excluded RBCs) in a Job, sub-Folder, and SMART Folder, by adding and selecting RBCs for the Excluded Rule-based Calendar list, as described in Scheduling a Job/Folder.

The scheduling of a Job with included RBCs and excluded RBCs is determined by combining the specified days of the included RBCs, combining the specified days of the excluded RBCs, and then removing the set of the excluded RBCs from the set of the included RBCs.

EXAMPLE: If a Job’s RBC list is Everyday and the Job’s excluded RBC list is Weekends, and Holidays, the resulting schedule is that the Job will run on every day that is not a weekend and not a holiday.