| □ | Holidays have a special significance to those working within this 24/7/365 security alarm industry business - specifically, Holidays are for others. |
| • | Knowing what days the monitored Commercial & Industrial accounts consider Holidays is important for processing alarms and managing Opening & Closing events. |
| • | Obviously, not all of these Subscribers will celebrate all of the Holidays defined here. |
| • | But all of the Holidays will be celebrated by some, eventually. |
| • | To define all of the Holidays that will need to be tracked, On the Main Menu, Choose Maintenance and Select Central Station, then Click Holidays. |
Holidays Form
| • | This Holidays Form may be Re-sized by Dragging the Top and/or Bottom up or down, and/or the Right side in or out. |
| • | Navigation Menu - The Navigation Menu is located at the top of the Holidays Form. |
| • | This Navigation Menu provides the normal Record Movement, New, Edit, Delete, Cancel, Save, and Refresh options; as well as a Print and Search function. |
| • | Record Editing section - The details of the currently selected record are displayed below the Navigation Menu at the center (Main Body) of the Holidays Form. |
| • | Table View tab - A tabular (spreadsheet style) Table View of the currently defined Holidays is accessible by Clicking the Table View tab at the bottom of the Holidays Form. |
| • | To display a specific Holiday record in the Record Editing section, Click on that record within the Table View section, or use the Search Icon (see the "Using the Special Functions" section later in this chapter). |
| • | This Table View information may be Pinned in Place by Clicking the Pin Icon on the right. |
Holidays Form - with Table View tab Pinned Open
| ▪ | You may Un-Pin this Table View by Clicking the Pin Icon again. |
| ▪ | Click on any listed record to display that information in the center (Main Body) of the Form. |
| • | There are three columns of data in this Holidays Record Listing: |
| 1) | ID - The record number which identifies this Holiday entry. |
| 2) | Description - The Description for this Holiday entry. |
| 3) | Holidays On - The Date within the current year of this Holiday entry |
| • | Each column's Header Name describes the data contained in that column. |
| ▪ | Clicking on a Header Name will set the order in which the Holidays will be listed. |
| ▪ | Clicking on the same Header Name will set the order in the opposite direction (ascending vs. descending). |
| ▪ | The Header Name that is determining the Order of the list will have an Icon indicating the Order displayed next to that Header Name. |
| • | To define the Holidays being celebrated by one or more of the Subscribers being monitored: |
| • | Click the  Icon to start the Holiday entry in the Record Editing section. |
| • | ID - This is the system assigned record number which is inserted automatically when the record is initially saved. |
| • | Holiday On - Date - Using the Drop-Down Date Selection Box provided, Select the Date on which this Holiday falls within the current Year. |
| • | Description - Enter a Description of this Holiday entry. |
| ▪ | The Description may up to 30 characters in length and include upper and/or lower case letters, numbers, spaces and normally used punctuation marks. |
| • | Click the  Icon to record this Holiday entry. |
| • | Repeat this process, as needed, to define each Holiday. |
| □ | Maintaining the Holidays Schedule: |
| • | Because the Day (Christmas, July Fourth, New Years Day, etc.) and often the actual Date (ex. Easter, Memorial Day, Labor Day, etc.) that Holidays are celebrated change from year to year, after your actual Holiday names and dates are defined, the Dates must be re-set annually. |
| • | As each Holiday passes, return to this Holidays Form. |
| • | Using the Drop-Down Date Selection Box provided, re-set the Holiday On field to the date on which the Holiday will fall in the coming year. |
| • | Click the Icon to record this modification of the Holiday entry. |
| □ | Using the Special Functions on the Navigation Menu at the top of the Holidays Form: |
| • | Print - Click the Print Icon to View and/or Print a list of the Holidays Report. |
Holidays Report Options dialog
| • | Search - Click the Search Icon to open the Holiday Search dialog. |
Search dialog
| • | See the "Using the Generic Search dialog" section in the Advanced Search Dialog chapter for more information about this Search dialog. |
