Creating a Holiday Schedule or Special Shift Schedule

Looking to add a holiday or special schedule into your regular schedule? This article will explain how.

If you need to create a new calendar for an upcoming year follow the instructions at:

Creating a yearly shift schedule

Shift schedules are created for a work center. Each work center has multiple schedules -- one for each year desired. Each year schedule may have up to 12 different weekly work schedules. There must, therefore, be at least one work center defined before access to the Shift Schedule window is possible. The Scheduling privilege is also needed in order to access this window.

To begin with, open the Panorama Monitor (fpmain.exe) program with an account that has privileges to edit the shift schedule.

NOTE: A change made to a weekly schedule affects all weeks using the same schedule in that calendar year.

Click on the Schedule menu item at the top and select Shift Schedule

Select the Work Center that you wish to create a schedule for (WC at the upper right) and the year that you are creating the schedule for. Then select an unused Weekly Schedule from the left hand of the Shift Schedule window, if there is not an unused schedule you can select one that is not generally used. Click on the schedule again to re-name it.

Fill the weekly shift as you would like the schedule to be. For example if for the year 2020 you are shut down at 11PM on Wednesday, December 23rd until 11PM Sunday, December 27th and you have 7AM, 3PM, and 11PM shifts normally you will fill in the schedule as follows.

You would then want to click Save to store it in the database and be able to use it. Once it is saved you can click on the schedule you just saved and drag it to the week that you wish to apply it to.

To create a shift schedule for the following week New Years, closing at 11PM on the 30th and re-opening on the 2nd at 7AM, repeat the process to select an unused schedule from above and then fill in the schedule as follows. Adjust Idle and End Idle times to match your shutdown and re-start times accordingly.

Once again, Save the schedule and then click and drag it to the week in the calendar that you wish to apply that schedule to. Make sure you have selected the correct year to create and apply the weekly schedule to.