Blackout dates allow for the preventing of scheduling on one or more days outside of the standard allowed schedule. For example, if the default inspection configuration allows for scheduling from 8AM - 5PM Monday - Friday, however you will be closed on a Tuesday and do not want any inspections scheduled on this date, the blackout feature will allow for the blocking of scheduling on the date specified. Blackout Dates can also be used to prevent scheduling on days that a certain department does not perform inspections. For Example, if the Building department does not perform inspections on Fridays, this feature can be used to black out every Friday for just the Building section.

Managing Blackouts

Blackouts can be a one time event or an event that repeats (weekly, monthly, etc).

To configure blackout dates, you must have access to the administration panel.

The Inspection Management module, if enabled on your Admin Panel, will be shown on the Admin Panel home screen.

After selecting the “Inspection Management” option, choose the option to manage “Blackout Dates”

This will display the current months calendar.

Calendar Navigation

To go to a future month, click on the right pointing arrow ">" on the top left of the calendar.

Use the left pointing arrow to go back

Add Blackout

To add blackouts to the selected month, simply click on the “Add” button for the date that you would like to add a blackout for. This will display the “Add Entry” dialog.

The default name of blackouts is “Holiday Blackout”, as this is the most common reason for blacking out an inspection date. However, this blackout can be used for any type of blackout

In this dialog, you can select the event type, department, inspector, as well as the "Date Type" (the recurrence of the event).

Type

The type selection allows you to specify which type of blackout you want to use. This currently includes the following options:

Holiday Blackout (Used to block out all inspections for specified date)
Inspector Blackout (Used to block out specific dates for specific inspectors)

Inspector

The inspector selection, allows you to specify which inspector this black out applies to. By default, the blackout will apply to all inspectors.

Type

The available Date Types are:

single
- This blackout should only happen once
weekly
- This blackout will occur every week on this day
monthly
- This blackout will occur once per month on this day
yearly
- This blackout will occur once per year on this day

Click "Save" when complete

The calendar will update to show your "Blackout"

Remove Blackout

To remove an existing item or series, click on the item to remove or any one of the items in a series.

This will display the "Edit" dialog

Click “Delete” to remove the item or series.