To provide scheduling control of station components, you place a schedule component from the schedule palette in a station, configure it, and link it as needed to the other component(s).
Scheduling functionality is the same whether using
Workbench or an HTML5 web browser with one exception. In a web browser, you do not have the options to copy and paste components.
There are four types of schedules:
- Weekly schedules are the most used schedule components. They define regular, repeating, events and include any number of special events. Four
types of weekly schedules correspond to the standard data types: Boolean, numeric, enum, and string. All are identical except
for input and output.
- Calendar schedules define specific days with scheduling exceptions (for example, holidays) You reference them in the special events setup of
weekly schedules.
- Trigger schedules initiate actions or topics. With a set of pre-configured schedules and a ScheduleSelector component, you can choose from
a list of valid schedules to set up or change the schedule of a device.
- ScheduleSelector components select a schedule to use for controlling a component. As needed, you link a ScheduleSelector’s output to an action of a control
point or extension.