Creating Special Schedule from Portals & Apps

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| Overview

Special Schedule is a schedule that allows a Facility manager to introduce a schedule that is outside of the actual set of building and zone schedules. For example, a facility manager would want to schedule the building on a Saturday for a small duration for which he would want the building's HVAC equipment to run. It further provides the flexibility to create a schedule that overrides a vacation that is created based on a holiday calendar for a year at any specific date which is an active nonholiday for the building.

A schedule like this on a Saturday or on any public holiday which is outside of the actual building schedule has been made possible with the Introduction of a Special Schedule.

The special schedule is a schedule that once added will bypass the building, zone, named schedule, or any vacation for that zone for that time duration, acting as a kind of master schedule. This is quite similar to vacation which can override any schedule but in a reversible way.

The special schedule can be added for buildings or zones via CCU, portal, or App and will cascade to the other parts of the system.

| Creating a Special Schedule at the Zone Level in the ClimaVision Web UI Portal

From the portals heatmap screen.

• Access the Zones for which you would like to add the special schedule to.

• Click the zone to access the widgets screen.

• Scroll to locate the special schedule section. 

• Click the Add Special Schedule.

• Enter a name for the special schedule.

• Use the slider and set the desired temperatures.

Note: The set desired temperatures can overlap without varying the other (the Heating Desired Temperature without varying the Cooling Desired Temperature, and the Cooling Desired Temperature without varying the Heating Desired) based on a certain criterion set. For more information refer to the article on Overlapping User limits for Heating and Cooling

• Use the start time and end time drop downs to select the duration of the schedule.
• Use the calendar icon in the applies to field to select a date.

• Click Save to confirm.

The special schedule at the zone level is added and the same will be applied to the zone of the building.

| Creating a Special Schedule at a Building Level in ClimaVision Web UI Portal

From the ClimaVision Web UI portal,

• Click the Buildings icon to access the building schedules.

The building section is displayed.

 

• Click the Add Special Schedule.

• Enter a name for the special schedule.

• Use the slider to set the desired temperatures.

• Use the start time and end time drop downs to select the duration of the schedule.
• Use the calendar icon in the applies to field to select a date.

• Click Save to confirm.

The special at the building level gets added, and the same will be applied to the building.

You can add a schedule up to a duration of 24 hours,

7-Day Special Schedule

7- day special schedule is a concept introduced in the Carrier system, to enable users to set special schedules at building and zone levels for any continuous seven-day schedule for a year. The 7-day schedules can be set for any 7 days for a year, starting from today. 

With the introduction of a 7-day special schedule, the calendar in the special schedule scheduler opens up with today's date highlighted. And the seven calendar days from today enabled for selecting, and setting the schedule, as shown below.

 

• Select the seven days and click save to set a special schedule.

To select any other 7 days duration for the year

• Use the arrow icons to navigate through the months of the year.

• Select a start date.

The consecutive 6 dates are enabled for selection as below

• Select the 7 days.

 

• Click save to confirm the special schedule.

The 7-day special schedule gets created as shown below.

| Creating a Special Schedule at the Zone Level in ClimaVision Web UI App

From the ClimaVision Web UI Heatmap.

• Access the Zones for which you would like to add the special schedule to.

• Click the zone to access the widgets screen.

• Scroll to locate the special schedule section. 

• Click the Add Special Schedule.

• Enter a name for the special schedule.

• Use the slider to set the desired user limits.

Note: The set user limits can overlap without varying the other (the Heating Desired Temperature without varying the Cooling Desired Temperature, and the Cooling Desired Temperature without varying the Heating Desired) based on a certain criterion set. For more information refer to the article on Overlapping User limits for Heating and Cooling

• Use the start time and end time drop downs to select the duration of the schedule.
• Use the calendar icon in the applies to field to select a date.

• Click Save to confirm.

The special schedule at the zone level is added and the same will be applied to the zone of the building.

| Creating a Special Schedule at the Building Level in ClimaVision Web UI App

From the ClimaVision Web UI app,

• Click the Buildings icon to access the building schedules.

The building section is displayed.

 

• Click the Add Special Schedule.

• Follow the steps mentioned in the zone special schedule creation in the section above

The special at the building level gets added, and the same will be applied to the building.

Note: The system globalization, with the user preference modification for units, does affect the special schedule sections.

You can add a schedule for up to a duration of 24 hours, 

 

You can also add a special schedule for any continuous 7-day duration, in a year.