Base Calendars

Base calendars maintain basic information regarding working times (for example, hours in the standard working week). You can use base calendars to express different working times for particular organization units or for locations in different time zones.

Note that:

• You must map a base calendar to an organizational entity before you can use it.
  Note: Base calendars cannot be mapped to resources.
• Base calendars are mapped to organizational entities using their alias. You can either:
  • define an alias before you map a base calendar to an organizational entity, or
  • define an alias when mapping a base calendar to an organizational entity. See Calendar Aliases (References).
• A base calendar can be mapped to multiple organizational entities.
• An organizational entity can only have one base calendar mapped to it at any time.
• You can remap a base calendar to a different organizational entity at any time.
  Note: TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM uses the latest calendar mapping so you should make sure that if you do remap a calendar while a process is deployed that it does not adversely affect the process.
• A base calendar is associated with a particular time zone, however working hours are time zone neutral. In other words, when specifying working hours, you should specify your working hours according to your own time zone. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM then interprets those hours according to the time zone you have specified.
• If the base calendar’s time-zone value changes, future entries are displayed adjusted to the new timezone, but existing entries are not adjusted. So if you define the start of the working week as 08:00 on Monday, it is still 08:00 on Monday even if the time zone of the calendar changes.