Creating a Maintenance Schedule

Create a maintenance schedule to prevent orders being placed for part of the network for a fixed period.

To create a maintenance schedule:

  1. Click Maintenance Schedules to open the Maintenance Schedules module.
  2. Click Add to create a new maintenance schedule.
  3. Enter the following details:
    FieldDescription

    Area

    Select the part of the network for which the schedule will apply. You can select either areas or groups.

    Begin/End Date

    Enter the schedule start and end dates

    Reason

    Add an optional description of the maintenance period.

    Announcement

    Select this checkbox to generate an announcement that will be displayed to relevant customers in the Irrigator Portal.

    The announcement will show the dates of the maintenance period and the text in the Reason field. It will expire at the end of the maintenance schedule, or you can expire the announcement manually in the Customer Comms module (see Creating a Web Portal Announcement for more details).

    Note

    Ticking the Announcement checkbox automatically creates a matching Customer Comms type for the web portal announcement.

  4. Click Save to save your changes.