XCLN: How to Automatically Import Holidays into Schedule+ 7.0 (153769)



The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Schedule+ for Windows 7.0

This article was previously published under Q153769
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SUMMARY

You can import Federal, National, Company, and Personal holidays into multiple user's files automatically by creating a holiday schedule file and making it available to every user by sending it to them via an attachment or a Hot Link in a mail message.

MORE INFORMATION

To create a holiday schedule file:

  1. Start Schedule+, click the File menu, click Open, and then click Archive or Project Schedule.
  2. In the Open Archive or Project Schedule dialog box, type Holidays in the File Name textbox and click the Open button.
  3. Now create appointments covering normal working hours, and enter an accurate description, of each holiday.
  4. Click the File menu, click Export, click Schedule+ Interchange, and export the information, using Holidays.sc2 as the file name.
  5. Click Close on the File menu.
There are two ways to make this file accessible to your users:

  • As an attached file:
    1. Send the Holidays.sc2 file as an attachment via a Microsoft Exchange mail message.
    2. In the message body, instruct them to double-click on the attachment.
    3. They will be asked if they want to import the Holidays.sc2 information into their SCD file. Tell them to click the OK button to import the holiday information into their appointment book.
  • Using the Hot Links feature:
    1. Place the Holidays.sc2 file on a shared location that everyone has access to.
    2. Create a message that includes a line similar to the following:
               file:\\<server>\<share>\Holidays.sc2
      							
      replacing the server and share names with the correct location.
    3. In the message body, instruct them to double-click on the attachment.
    4. They will be asked if they want to import the Holidays.sc2 information into their SCD file. Tell them to click the OK button to import the holiday information into their appointment book.

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:5/21/2001
Keywords:KB153769