A Time Group is a list of times against which incoming or outgoing calls are checked. The rules specify a time range, by the time, day of the week, day of the month, and month of the year. Each time group can have an unlimited number of rules defined. Time groups typically are associated with time conditions, which control the destination of a call based on the time. A time group can also be assigned to an outbound route in order to limit the use of that route to the times defined in the time group.
Your system comes with pre built time groups assigned and you may need to change the times that your business is open/closed
Logging In - On the top menu click Applications - In the Drop down click Time Groups
To change your business times click the edit button beside the "Normal Hours" time group entry
Within this window you can edit your opening and closing times along with the days of the week that your business is open.
To save your new office hours settings click Submit and then Apply Changes
Adding a Time Group - Click the Add Time Group button.
You will then see this page
Description -Enter a description to identify this time group. For example, “Closed Hours” works better to something generic like “Time Group 1.”
Time(s) -This is where you will define a time range. By default, there is one range available. You can define multiple ranges in the same time group by clicking the Add Time button. The Time Group will evaluate to "True" during the times/days/months you define.
Available parameters are:
Time to start
Time to finish
Week Day start
Week Day finish
Month Day start
Month Day finish
Month start
Month finish
Tip: Unset Parameters
Unset (blank) week day, month day, and month parameters will default to "all." For example, setting a start time of 09:00 and an end time of 17:00, and nothing else (no day, month, etc.), will make the condition true from 9AM to 5PM every day of the week, every day of the month, every month of the year.
If times are unset (blank) and there is also a week day, month day, and/or month range set, the day/date range will be considered an exclusion. You are essentially telling the system, "I want no time during this day/date range to be considered a match." You can use this technique to exclude certain days/dates from a broader time period.
Excluding Time Periods Such as Holidays - After you have defined your "normal" or default time period(s) by adding one or more time ranges as described earlier, you can then add entries to exclude certain dates.
To define an excluded period, leave the time to start and time to finish BLANK. (Make no selection for times). Then, select a week day, month day, and/or month range in which you want this exclusion to apply.
Date-Specific Holidays - Holidays such as Christmas, which always fall on the same calendar date, can be set by choosing the day of the month (for both start & finish) and the month (for both start & finish).
Floating holidays - those that do not always fall on the same calendar date - require a bit more logic. You want the system to look for a specific day of the week within a possible date range. For example, Thanksgiving in the U.S. is the 4th Thursday of November. The possible dates are 11/22 through 11/28. To set an exclusion for Thanksgiving, you'd ask the system to look for a Thursday within that date range in November:
This type of logic can be applied to any "floating" date, such as "the second Tuesday of each month," for example:
Save - Click the Submit button, then click the Apply Config button.
Assigning Time Groups to Time Conditions - After you create a time group, it will become available for selection in the Time Conditions module. For more information on Time Conditions, see below
How to create a Time Condition
Go to Favourites
Go to Time Conditions
Click Add Time Condition button
In the Time Condition Name field - add a relevant name for your time condition
In the Override Code Pin field - Optional - If set dialing the feature code will require a pin to change the override state.
In the Invert BLF Hint - Optional - Set the toggle button to (Yes) If set the hint will be INUSE if the time condition is matched, and NOT_INUSE if it fails
In the Change Override field - From the drop down menu - select a state - This Time Condition can be set to Temporarily go to the 'matched' or 'unmatched' destination in which case the override will automatically reset once the current time span has elapsed. If set to Permanent it will stay overridden until manually reset. All overrides can be removed with the Reset Override option. Temporary Overrides can also be toggled with the feature code, which will also remove a Permanent Override if set but can not set a Permanent Override which must be done here or with other applications such as an XML based phone options.
In the Time Zone field - Optional - From the drop down menu - select a time zone - Specify the time zone by name if the destinations are in a different time zone than the server. Type two characters to start an auto-complete pick-list.
Important: Your selection here MUST appear in the pick-list or in the /usr/share/zoneinfo/ directory. This field is normally left to the default (USE SYSTEM TIMEZONE)
In the Time Group field - Optional - From the drop down menu - Select a Time Group created under Time Groups. Matching times will be sent to matching destination. If no group is selected, call will always go to no-match destination.
In the Destination Matches field - From the drop down menu - Select a destination
In the Destination Non Matches field - From the drop down menu - Select a destination if the time does not match.
Click on the Submit Information button at the bottom right of the page
Click on the Apply Config button at the top right of the page.
