Management Station Exceptions

You can define exceptions from the Calendar or List View.

1

Schedule

Navigates to the schedule entries workspace.

2

List View

Displays the schedule exception entries in the List View.

3

Add

Displays the list of exceptions that you can add to the schedule. You can add the following types of exceptions:
Date: Adds an exception for a single date.
Recurring: Adds an exception for a recurring time period.
Weekday: Adds an exception for a particular date range.
Daterange: Adds an exception for a particular day, week, and month of the year.
Calendar: Adds a management station calendar as an exception and the entries of the calendar are considered to be exception entries for the schedule.

4

Range

Allows you to convert an exception entry of type Date to DateRange.

5

Copy

Allows you to copy schedule exception entries to other days of the week.

6

Exception Entry

Displays the details of the schedule exception entry.

7

Delete Exception Entry

Allows you to delete a schedule exception entry.

8

End of exception

Displays the end of exception. If End of exception option is selected for a schedule exception entry, then the schedule falls back to the weekly schedule defined for that period.

1

Exception Entry

Displays the details of the schedule exception entry.

2

Priority

Allows you to change the priority of the exception entry. By default, the priority is set to 16.

3

Delete

Allows you to delete a schedule exception entry.

4

Profile

Displays the selected exception entry.

Management Station Scheduler Application Rights

Management Station Scheduler application rights define permissions for viewing and modifying data related to Management Station schedules and calendars.

Flex Schedules Rights

Application Rights

Action

Show

Config.

  • Access the Management Station schedules application and view existing Management Station schedule and calendar entries
  • Edit button to modify entries and Add button to add new entries are not available

✔

✘

  • Modify existing Management Station schedule and calendar entries
  • Add new entries
  • Save modified entries

✔

✔

  • Management Station schedules application does not display in Flex Client

✘

✘

 

NOTE:
After you have logged into Flex Client, if your Configure rights are removed by another user, then during a Save or Save As operation a Permission denied message displays. If only your Show rights are removed, then the Save or Save As operation is still successful.

 

Management Station Schedules

Schedules Workspace – View Mode

Schedules Workspace – Edit Mode

You can create weekly schedules for your management stations, and a management station can run multiple calendars or schedules at the same time. Management station schedules and calendars run only if the management station is running.

Management station schedules make use of scenes that are objects which allow you to create multiple operating modes for a schedule. You can add and associate datapoints with the scenes and specify the values for the datapoints for different scene modes such that when the schedule is in that particular mode, the datapoint will reflect that value. For example, consider that you have created 3 scenes, Office Opening Time, Lunch Time, and Office Closing Time and you want to have different temperatures in each of the 3 scene modes. In this case, you can associate 3 analog output points to each of the scenes with values that should be present at each of the 3 scene modes.

Additionally, management station schedules can process both BACnet and non-BACnet object types (BACnet schedules process only BACnet object types).

You can also create exceptions to schedules. When a management station exception is ON, it overrides the weekly schedule.

When the exception is OFF, control returns to the weekly schedule.

Schedules Workspace – View Mode

 

1

System Browser

Displays the list of objects in the selected view.

2

Edit

Navigates to the Edit mode that allows you to edit schedule entries and add exceptions.

3

Schedule Overview

Displays information of the schedule entry and exception entry, of the selected schedule.

 

Schedules Workspace – Edit Mode

1

Overview

Navigates to the schedule workspace. On clicking Overview, you can navigate back to the Overview page where you can only view the schedule or exception entries but cannot edit them.

2

Exceptions

Displays the Calendar View and List View from where you can add exceptions to the schedule.

3

Options

Displays the Options dialog box from where you can specify the default scene and the effective period for the schedule.

4

Copy

Enables copying of schedule entries to other days of the week.

 

1

Schedule default

Allows you to specify the default scene for the schedule.

2

Effective period

Allows you to specify the start and end time period for a schedule.

Scene Editor

Configure data point

Allows you to configure scenes for a schedule. Using Scenes, you can create multiple operating modes for a schedule. You can add and associate datapoints with the scenes and specify the values for the datapoints for different scene modes such that when the schedule is in that particular mode at the specified time, the datapoint will reflect that value.

1

Add

Allows you to add new scenes and data points to the scenes.
You can add the same data point more than once and associate a different property with each of the points. To specify a different property, click next to the data point and select Configure data point from the displayed options.

2

Provides options to save schedules, save schedules with a new name, discard changes, and delete the schedule.

3

Name

Displays the name of the scene. You can also modify the name.

4

Value

Displays the value of the data point associated with the scene and allows you to change its value.

5

Provides the following options:
Disable Data point: Disables the data point for the particular scene.
Configure Data point: Displays the Configure data point dialog box displays that allows you to specify a new value for the point for the scene to which it is associated with, specify a different property for the data point, disable/enable the data point for the scene, specify advanced commands for the selected property, and remove the data point from all scenes.
Advanced Commands: Displays the advanced commands of the property associated with the data point or object and allows you to set the required command for the data point.
About the Data point: Provides information on the data point.

6

Provides options to delete scenes.

7

Provides options to save schedules, save schedules with a new name, discard changes, and delete the schedule.

Configure data point

1

Scene [n]

Displays the property value of the data point for a particular scene, for example, Scene 1

2

Select Property

Allows you to select a different property of the data point. By default, when you add a data point to a schedule, the Present Value property is set for the point.

3

Provides the following options:
About the Data point: Provides information on the data point
Rename: Allows you to rename the data point
Remove Data Point: Removes the data point from the schedule. Removing a data point removes it from all the scenes of the schedule.

4

Provides options to disable the data point for the scene and set advanced commands for the associated property.

Management Station Calendars

You can create management station calendars and add entries to it in the Calendar View and the List View.

1

Add

Allows you to add calendar entries of the following types:

Date: Adds a calendar entry for a single day.
Recurring: Adds an entry for recurring days of the week.
Date range: Adds an entry for a specified date range.
Weekday: Adds an entry for any day of the week.

2

Save

Saves the management station calendar

3

Displays the following options:

Save As: Saves the management station calendar with a new name.
Delete Calendar Object: Deletes the management station calendar.

 

1

Delete

Deletes the calendar entry.