Calendar Aliases (References)

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM uses calendar aliases at runtime to identify the calendars that should be used. This enables you to reflect situations where different parts of the organization have different working patterns. By default, if no calendar alias is mapped, TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM uses the system calendar.

Assigning a calendar reference is done in TIBCO Business Studio. If you want to use different calendars from the system calendar then you must do the following:

• Specify the calendar reference to be used when defining your processes in TIBCO Business Studio. See the "Intermediate Events" section in the TIBCO Business Studio Process Modeling User’s Guide for more information on calendar references in Business Studio.
• Create the calendar alias. You can either:
  • Create the calendar alias using the Calendar Aliases option from the Manage menu in the Calendar gadget. See Calendar Aliases.
  • Create the alias when you map the calendar to an organizational entity. See Assigning Calendars to Organizational Entities.
• Map the calendar to an organization entity, making sure you specify the calendar alias when defining the mapping.

Note that:

• An alias does not have to exist in Openspace when you create a calendar reference in your process. You can specify an alias in TIBCO Business Studio and then create it later in Openspace. See Calendar Aliases.
• A calendar can have more than one alias.
• You can map a calendar to multiple organizational entities using the same alias.
• You can remap aliases to organizational entities 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.