Managing calendars

Calendars make it easy for you to schedule complex recurring jobs efficiently. A calendar is a customized list of run dates for scheduled jobs. When users schedule objects, they can use a calendar to run the job on a predefined set of dates. By providing calendars for your users, you can create more complex processing schedules than you can with the standard scheduling options.

Calendars are particularly useful when you want to run a recurring job on an irregular schedule, or if you want to provide users with sets of regular scheduling dates to choose from. Calendars also allow you to create more complex processing schedules, combining unique scheduling dates with recurring ones.

For example, if you want a report object to run every business day except for your country's statutory holidays, you can create a calendar with the holidays marked as "non-run" days, on which the report object cannot be run. Crystal Enterprise will run the job every day you have specified as a "run" day in your calendar.

You can set up as many calendars as you want in Crystal Enterprise. Calendars you create appear in the Calendar selection list available when you choose to schedule an object using a calendar. When you apply the calendar to a job, Crystal Enterprise runs the job on the run dates as scheduled.

You can apply calendars to any object that can be scheduled, including report objects, program objects, and object packages.

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