11 Managing Calendar Holidays

This chapter describes the different tasks involved in managing holidays within a calendar server node network.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• About Holidays

• Assigning Holiday Administration Rights

• Creating Holidays

• Modifying Holidays

About Holidays

Holidays are special events that appear in the calendars of all users and event calendars in a node. Holidays can be created one-by-one by any user with the proper administrative rights, through the Oracle Calendar administrator, or one of the Oracle Calendar desktop clients.

Assigning Holiday Administration Rights

The SYSOP, by default, has holiday management rights. The administrator can also assign holiday administration rights to a regular Calendar user. This can be done either through the Calendar Administrator or the command line.

You can assign holiday administration rights using the Oracle Calendar administrator web GUI, or by using a command line utility.

Oracle Calendar Administrator

Use the Oracle Calendar administrator to assign holiday administrative rights to a user.

1. Sign in as the SYSOP user.

2. Click the Calendar Management tab.

3. Click on the Users secondary tab.

4. Search for the user, or click Go to list all users.

5. Select the Pencil icon in the Actions column next to the user who's admistration rights you want to modify.

6. Click Administrative Rights from the menu on the left.

   Note:

   The Administrative Rights option will only appear if you are signed in to the Oracle Calendar administrator as the SYSOP, or as a user with the right to manage other users' administrative rights.

7. Scroll down to the Node Management section.

8. Check the Manage Holidays checkbox, the click Apply.

Command Line

Use the uniadmrights utility to assign holiday administration rights. For more information about the use and syntax of the uniadmrights utility, see "Calendar Server Utilities" in Chapter 6 of Oracle Calendar Reference Manual.

For example:

% uniadmrights -u "S=Sitchin/G=Zechariah" -n 165 -node "holiday=true" 

Creating Holidays

Oracle Calendar Desktop Client

Use the Oracle Calendar desktop client to create holidays.

1. Sign in as a user who has been granted holiday administration rights.

2. Select the holiday management menu item (Tools | Manage Holidays...).

See the Oracle Calendar desktop client online Help for more details.

Oracle Calendar Administrator

Use the Oracle Calendar administrator to create holidays.

1. Sign in to the Calendar administrator as the SYSOP user or as a user who has been granted holiday administration rights.

2. Click the Server Administration tab.

3. Click on the Nodes secondary tab.

4. Search for the node if it is not already listed.

5. Click the node's Manage Holiday icon in the Actions column.

6. A calendar will be displayed in which you can add, modify, or delete holidays.

7. Click the Create Holiday icon at the top to add new holidays.

8. Enter the holiday title in the Title text box, and the holiday date in the Start Time dropdown list, then click Apply.

Modifying Holidays

Oracle Calendar Desktop Client

Use the Oracle Calendar desktop client to modify holidays.

1. Sign in to the Oracle Calendar desktop client as a user who has been granted holiday administration rights.

2. Select the holiday management menu item (Tools | Manage Holidays...).

See your Oracle Calendar desktop client online Help for more details.

Oracle Calendar Administrator

Use the Oracle Calendar administrator to modify holidays.

1. Sign in as the SYSOP or as a user who has holiday administration rights.

2. Select the Server Administration tab.

3. Click on the Nodes secondary tab.

4. Search for the node if it is not already listed.

5. Click the node's Manage Holiday icon in the Actions column.

6. A calendar will be displayed in which you can add, modify or delete holidays. To modify an existing holiday, find it using the navigation links (Previous or Next) on the top right and then click its link in the calendar.

7. Once you have found the holiday you wish to modify, click on its title.

8. Modify the holiday, then click Apply.