Deployment Calendar

You can use the Deployment Calendar to see Environment Reservations.

The deployment calendar allows you to:

  • Import personal calendars via the Deployment Calendar via Settings
  • Export the Deployment Calendar

Systemwide calendars are configured by the administrator.

This page includes the following:

Viewing the Deployment Calendar

  1.  Open an environment.
  2.  Unfold the Advanced tab.
  3.  Click Calendar.

Toolbar

Elements of the Toolbar:

  • Date Label: shows the currently selected date or date range
  • Date selection Icon: opens a date picker to select the date to navigate to
  • Settings: opens the settings dialog
  • Export: opens the dialog to export the calendar
  • Overlay: activates/deactivates grouping of calendars
  • Date range: Day-Week-Month changes the view to display a complete day, week, or month

Sidebar

In the sidebar, you can quickly select a date and navigate through the calendar.

Elements

  • < / >: previous / next month
  • << / >>: three months back / forward

Below the month calendar, the entity-specific sidebar is shown. If no entity is selected, this area is empty.

Environment reservations

Information displayed: Environment reservation name

Note: Display options, if multiple environments are selected:

  • A dedicated calendar is visible for each environment next to each other.
  • You can activate the Overlay function: the data of all selected environments is merged and shown in a single calendar.

User-defined calendars can be imported and displayed within the deployment calendar in two ways:

  • Systemwide calendars are visible for all users (for example, public holidays, corporate calendars)
  • Personal calendars are available for a single user only (for example, group calendars)

Working with the Deployment Calendar Settings

In the Deployment Calendar Settings you define the Environments for which you want to display the data. Also, you can import other personal calendars.

  • Calendar section

    • Calendars

      Lists all extra calendars (systemwide and personal ones) in alphabetical order.

    • Add

      Opens the dialog to add an extra calendar.

      • Name

        Mandatory name of the calendar

      • Upload file

        En-/Disables the upload of an iCalendar file

      • File

        Allows the user to upload an iCalendar file. Only enabled it upload file is selected.

      • Fetch dynamically

        En-/Disables the URL of an iCalendar and its reloading interval.

      • URL

        Allows the user to specify a URL to retrieve an iCalendar from. Only enabled it Fetch dynamically is selected.

        When saving, the URL is automatically verified. If the file can be retrieved, it is downloaded and imported immediately. If the verification fails, the error message The iCalendar could not be retrieved. Please ensure that the URL you entered above is correct and retry. is shown.

      • Reload every

        If the checkbox is selected, the user has to enter a reload interval in hours (from 1 through 99). Default: 24h. Only enabled if fetch is set to dynamically.

    • Edit

      Opens the dialog to edit the selected calendar. Only enabled if a personal extra calendar is selected in the list.

    • Refresh

      Reloads the selected calendar.

    • Delete

      Deletes the selected calendar.

  • Show Environments section

    • Environments

      Lists all environments that the user has read permissions on in alphabetical order. Max. 5 environments can be selected together.

Exporting the Deployment Calendar

The export action in the toolbar generates a downloadable iCalendar-file named DeploymentCalendar.ics.

If multiple environments are selected, the exported iCalendar contains the information of all selected calendars in one single file.

The timespan for which to include the calendar information is defined in the configuration file. All other settings are taken over from the Deployment Calendar settings.