Creating Special Schedule from Portals & Apps

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| Overview

Special Schedule is a schedule that allows a Facility manager to introduce a schedule that is outside of the actual set of building and zone schedules. For example, a facility manager could want to have the building's HVAC equipment to run on a Saturday for a small duration with no repeats and no other days affected. Special Schedules provide our users with the flexibility to create a schedule that overrides a vacation that is created based on a holiday calendar or on an active nonholiday for the building.

Special schedules effectively bypass any building, zone, or named schedule- or even any vacations- for that zone for the time duration of the special schedule, acting as a kind of master schedule. This is quite similar to vacation which can override any schedule but in the reverse fashion.

The special schedule can be added for buildings or zones via CCU, portal, or App and will cascade to the other parts of the system.

| Creating a Special Schedule at the Zone Level in the Facilisight Portal

Starting from the portal heatmap screen:

Select the Zones that you would like to add the special schedule to:

Click the zone to access the widgets screen.

Scroll to locate the special schedule section.

Click the "Add Special Schedule" button.

Enter a name for the special schedule.

Use the slider and set your desired temperatures.

Note: The set desired temperatures can change without varying the other (the Heating Desired Temperature without varying the Cooling Desired Temperature, and the Cooling Desired Temperature without varying the Heating Desired) based on a certain criterion set. For more information refer to the article on Overlapping User limits for Heating and Cooling

Use the start and end time drop downs to select the duration of the schedule.
Use the calendar icon in the 'applies to' field to select a date.

Click 'Save' to confirm.

The special schedule at the zone level is added and the same will be applied to the zone of the building.

| Creating a Special Schedule at a Building Level in Facilisight Portal

From the Facilisight portal:

Click the Buildings icon to access the building schedules.

The following building section is displayed:

Click the 'Add Special Schedule' button.

Enter a name for the special schedule.

Use the slider to set your desired temperatures.

Use the start and end time drop downs to select the duration of the schedule.
Use the calendar icon in the 'applies to' field to select a date.

Click 'Save' to confirm.

The special schedule at the building level is now added, and the same will be applied to the building.

Note: You can add a schedule duration of up to 24 hours

7-Day Special Schedule

7-day special schedule is a characteristic type of special schedule that can be created within the 75F system that enables users to set special schedules at building or zone levels for a week long period. This can be useful if an odd week requires extraordinary needs that your typical named schedule doesn't cater to.

To create a 7-day special schedule, follow the same steps to create a special schedule and open up the calendar to provide a start and end date. Today's date should be highlighted. The six proceeding calendar days from today should be outlined as shown below:

Select all seven days and click save to set the 7-day special schedule.

If you wish to apply the schedule for another time period, use the arrow icons to navigate through the months of the year:

Select a start date.

The consecutive 6 dates are outlined for selection as shown below:

Select the 7-day period for which you'd like the schedule to apply.

Click save to confirm the special schedule.

The 7-day special schedule gets created as shown below:

| Creating a Special Schedule at the Zone Level in Facilisight App

Navigate to the Facilisight Heatmap in your Facilisight App.

Access the Zones for which you would like to add the special schedule to:

Click the zone to access the widgets screen:

Scroll to locate the special schedule section:

Click the 'Add Special Schedule' button.

Enter a name for the special schedule.

Use the slider to set the desired user limits.

Note: The set user limits can change without varying the other (the Heating Desired Temperature without varying the Cooling Desired Temperature, and the Cooling Desired Temperature without varying the Heating Desired) based on a certain criterion set. For more information refer to the article on Overlapping User limits for Heating and Cooling