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How Schedule Manager Resolves Schedule Conflicts

When a cyclic day of week period and a fixed date period are in conflict over scheduled control of a common resource, Schedule Manager gives control to the fixed date period.

When a fixed date period with a year specified and a fixed date period without a year specified are in conflict over scheduled control of a common resource, Schedule Manager gives control to the fixed date period with the year specified.

Note: The SHOW CONFLICTS and SHOW OVERLAPS commands do not display any schedule conflicts resolved by the above rules. Also, the SHOW OVERLAPS command does not display any non-conflicting overlaps that would be resolved by the above rules if they were conflicts. This is done to make the displays more understandable and less complex.

Important! The user needs to keep this in mind when reading these displays.

Conflicts between periods not resolved by the above rules (that is, conflicts between two cyclic day of week periods or between two fixed date periods both with or without the year specified) are resolved as follows:

• The period with a start time closest to the time of conflict gains control of the resource. For instance, if period A takes effect Monday through Friday from 09:00 to 17:00 and period B takes effect Wednesday and Thursday from 10:00 to 22:00, then the times of conflict are between 10:00 and 17:00 on Wednesday and Thursday. Since 10:00, the start time of period B, is closer to the times of conflict than 09:00, the start time for period A, then period B controls the resource during the times of conflict between 10:00 and 17:00 on Wednesday and Thursday.
• If two conflicting periods have the same start time, then the period with a start date closest to the date of the conflict controls the resource. For example, if period A takes effect Monday through Friday from 09:00 to 12:00 and period B takes effect Wednesday and Thursday from 09:00 to 17:00, then period A controls the resource on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday between 09:00 and 12:00, and period B controls the resource from 09:00 until 12:00 on Wednesday and Thursday.
• If neither of the above criteria favors one period over the other, then the Schedule Manager uses the period whose name is first in alphabetical sequence. For instance, period A is used since A precedes B alphabetically.