Temporary Schedules
Patriot provides a temporary schedule feature for use on occasions when a client requests, in advance, temporary changes to the standard schedule. The typical use case is a business client requesting shorter, longer or no opening hours leading up to or following a public holiday period. Temporary schedules always take priority over both the standard schedule (and the public holiday schedule in cases where a public holiday period overlaps the temporary schedule period).
Because we do not want to make permanent changes to the standard scheduled hours for the client, we must be able to temporarily override them with a temporary schedule. Once set a temporary schedule will override the standard schedule hours for the duration specified. Once the defined temporary schedule period is over Patriot will automatically revert to enforcing the standard (or public holiday) scheduled hours.
For example if the client is a retailer and for the week building up to the Christmas public holiday they will stay open until 10 p.m. each night instead of their usual closing time of 5 p.m. To avoid a late to close or unset out of hours alarm being activated a temporary schedule should be inserted in advance using the quick set Add Change to Regular Schedule function.
Another example is a client which is a school and some areas will be closed completely leading up to and following a public holiday period. In this scenario the Add Extended Closing quick set function of Patriot's temporary schedule features should be used.
Sharing Temporary Schedules
In cases where Temporary Schedule times across multiple areas of a client are the same, the schedule should be entered once in the client base area and the Share Temporary Schedule checkbox checked. This means that temporary schedule updates can be made for a number of client areas in one place.