Calendar

The calendar workspace enables the user to:

  1. View the day distribution across the months and days of the week for the full year that has selected by the user.
  2. Create Special Days Calendars that can be incorporated into Schedules defined on the Schedules workspace
  3. Review Special Days Calendars to assess how the Special Days are distributed throughout the year.
  4. Edit Special Days Calendars using the edit and create controls

Directly related to: Schedules

 

Calendar and Naming Controls Area

Calendar Name

The user can either enter a name that they are going to save with a new calendar or they can select a calendar entry that has been previously created that is a part of the current source library.

Description

The description that can be associated with each calendar name entry.

New

Creates a blank slate (previous work will be deleted if not saved) for the user to create a new Calendar Year Entry

Copy

Creates a copy of the current calendar year and gives it a default name starting with "Copy of", followed by the name of the calendar entry that was just copied.

Save

Saves the recent changes for the calendar entry to the active source library.

Delete

Deletes the entry from the current source library

Tip: If the user is in one of the Libraries or Template workspaces and they select delete, in a majority of cases it will delete the entry from the source library.

 

Calendar Year Area

Calendar Year

The calendar display for the year selected that shows everyday of the year and allows the user to select individual or multiple days and assign a special day type to them that can be saved with the calendar year entry.  The  day(s) selections are highlighted in a 'grey-blue' color when initially selected.  After the user has assigned a special days type to the selection the day(s) will be highlighted in the color that is associated with that special days type.

 

Custom Days Controls Area

Special Days Name

When the user selects single or multiple days on the Calendar Year Area that  they want to assign a special day category.  They can type a name in this field prior to selecting the desired special days type to associate the name entered with that special day type.   

Remove Special Days

The user can select single or multiple days on the Calendar Year Area that have had special day types assigned to them.  Then by selecting Remove Special Days the Special Days type that was previously associated with the selection will be removed

Special Days Types

Workflow: Creating a Special Days Calendar

Workflow: Editing a Special Days Calendar

Tip: The concept of a calendar does not exist in EnergyPlus, however it provides an effective way to more easily set up a calendar composed of a number of different day and period types that would be more tedious to do via individual date entry.  

 

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