Holiday

Owned by Vinodhraj DP
Last updated: May 17, 2024
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Velocity Web Client can define up to 365 days per holiday (366 for a leap year) with up to four schedules per Holiday.

These holidays can then be included in the definition of Time Zones.

A Holiday is a day or group of days defined as holidays for this system.  You can assign one or more holiday schedules to a standard time zone.

You can only define holidays for the current year and the following year.  For example, you could define holidays for 2023 and 2024, but not 2025.  In addition, you must specify the year for each holiday defined, whether it is a recurring holiday or not.  For example, you cannot simply define 'New Years' and expect it to be observed every year; you must define 'New Years 2022'.

If holidays are included in the time zone for a person's Door Group (by selecting the cell that intersects the STZ row with the H column), access will be authorized when the system's calendar detects a scheduled holiday date.

If a holiday schedule is not authorized, the specific Door Group denies access for each designated holiday date.

Adding a Holiday

To define a holiday:

  1. In the Device Control tab, expand the Velocity Configuration tree.

  2. Select the Holidays folder.

All currently defined Holidays will be listed along with the Add Holiday button.

Notice that the defined holidays are shown with their holiday schedules marked to the right. 

Please refer to Search & Sort Arrows to know more about the button functionalities.

  1. Click the Add Holiday button. The Add Holiday window appears as shown below.

  1. In the 'Name' field, type a name for this holiday (up to 32 characters).

We recommend you include the year in the name, for example, Christmas 2021.

The default Holiday display is a quarterly view. You can switch to a monthly view by clicking on the Monthly view button. The current day of the month will be highlighted in red.

  1. In the 'Date' section, do one of these:

  • Click on the day you want to define as a holiday.  To select a range of days, click on a start date, (+ Shift), click on the end date. All days selected will change to a dark shade. Click a selected shaded day to deselect it; in this way, you can select a non-contiguous series of days. To go backward or forward a month or quarter, click the image-20240513-075835.png or image-20240513-075936.png button to the left or right side of the month.

  • Click on the image-20240513-080012.png or image-20240513-075936.png button at the upper left or upper right corner of the calendar to move between months that contain selected dates. For example: we have selected  17 - 19 May and 11 - 15 October from 2021, you can go directly to the next selected date you already have, saving clicks to get there.

  1. In the 'Holiday Schedules' section, check one or more of the holiday schedules.

  2. Click Save Changes when finished.