PERSONA Campus Online > Web Client > Access Control

Holiday: Any day of the year that will follow a different schedules than the normal day of the week the holiday falls on. Holidays are used to define access control exceptions in the system. They are added to Holiday Groups, which are defined in Schedules as unique days that override the normal days of the week and have different access times.

Holidays are individual calendar days that are joined into one or more Holiday Group(s). These Holiday Groups are then used by Schedules to modify the privileges granted to cardholders and actions performed by scheduled commands on those days.

Holidays are used in several aspects of the PERSONA Campus Online system. the intention of the holiday function is to allow the system to treat a specific date differently on that day and that day only.

For example, a building may have the front door set up to unlock automatically (a Scheduled Command) Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. However, if this building were to remain secured on Christmas, and Christmas fell on a Tuesday, a holiday would need to be programmed into the systems Time Schedules to provide this exception. The thing to remember about holidays (when they are included in a time schedule), is that no matter what the time interval is supposed to be for a given day of the week, if that day is a holiday the time interval assigned to the holiday will replace the “normal” schedule for that day. This might activate or restrict a schedule command or some cardholders’ access.

Each Holiday is configured as an individual day. Any expired or past holidays will display with a red date.

Use the Create New link to configure each day and give it a name. You might name it after the date itself, or you might name it after the break period or holiday.

If you click the "History" Tab, this will list an audit of who made changes to the Holiday and what changes were made.