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Let us further assume that the schedules should commence as follows:
Normal on 2 January, the Christmas schedule should run between 21 st December and 30 th December
and the New Year schedule should run between 30
th
December and 2
nd
January.
Here is an example of how to do it:
1) Create a schedule suitable for normal times and save the schedule as
Normal.sch
and do
likewise for the Christmas and New Year holiday periods. You will then have three
schedules saved to disk -
Normal.sch , Christmas.sch and NewYear.sch .
2) Click on the
Log
button to display the log entries in the details display. The
Log
button is
then shown in red.
3) Hold down [Ctrl] and click where it shows
No Schedule Entry
on the first row marked
01
and a
Load Log Schedule
dialogue box will appear.
4) Select the Normal.sch file and click on the
Open
button.
5) Hold down [Ctrl] and then left or right-click on the Month, Date Year and Hour items to set
them as required.
6) Highlight the next row marked
02
and
follow steps 3 to 5 above for the other
schedules that are needed in the log as
shown.
7) Click again on the
Log
button to turn it
off and return to the schedule step
display, then click on the
Use
button to
set the schedule log working.
The schedule log
8) Finally, click on the
Options > Main Screen
menu item to go back to the main screen and
then save the desk because the schedule log itself and a flag to indicate if it should be
running or not (i.e.
Use
button on or off) is saved with the desk file.
Now, if the
Load Desk
and
Run Schedule
items are both ticked on the
Options > Auto
menu on
the main desk screen, ShowMagic, on start-up, will load the desk, examine the schedule log and
load and run whatever schedule is appropriate in the schedule log for that hour, date, month and
year.
From then on ShowMagic continues to check the schedule log every hour to see if it should load
and run a different schedule for the current hour, date, month and year. If no schedule change is
listed it continues running the currently loaded schedule.
Options > Main Screen
.
Selecting this menu item on the schedule screen will take you back to the
main desk screen.
Section 14 - Schedule Screen
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