Weekly schedules links

Schedule component links provide scheduling control over other components. Using a weekly schedule and a trigger schedule, you can link the weekly schedule’s Out slot as a source to a slot on another component. You can link the same weekly schedule to many target components.

You link the output (out slot) of a weekly schedule to one or more writable control points with a like Status<type> input. For example, linking the output of a BooleanSchedule to a BooleanWritable point. More specifically, you could link the Out slot of weekly schedule types as follows:

  • BooleanSchedule to a BooleanWritable that is a proxy point for a Binary Output object in a BACnet device.
  • NumericSchedule to a NumericWritable that is a proxy point for setpoint NVI in a LON device.

By convention, when linking to a target writable point (with 16-level priority array), you select In16 among its different priority array inputs. However, you are free to select any available input level.

In a few cases, you may wish to “chain” weekly schedules from Out slot to In slot. This technique is typically useful only if one of the chained schedules is effective during any period. In this case, the Default Output value of all schedule components (except last in chain) must be null.

You can chain weekly schedules from Out slot to In slot. This technique is useful only if one of the chained schedules is effective during any period. In this case, the Default Output value of all schedule components (except last in chain) must be null.

 
NOTE: Typically, you do not link a CalendarSchedule component. Instead, you reference one or more calendar schedules from a weekly schedule in its special events setup. This allows global editing of event definitions.