Cisco Cisco Process Orchestrator 3.0 User Guide

When defining a process, you can specify when the process will execute. You can execute a process 
based on a schedule. A schedule specifies one or more times of day, and is combined with a calendar that 
specifies which days the schedule should initiate the process.

The following topics include how to define a calendar, how to use calendars to define a schedule for a 
process, and how to use calendars in a condition:

Calendars are reusable for schedules within many processes. For example, you can define a calendar for 
Saturdays. When defining a process that you want to run on Saturdays, you reference the Saturday 
calendar. Other examples include a calendar that includes weekends and company holidays when IT 
might perform scheduled maintenance, or the last week of a fiscal quarter when IT might exclude 
non-essential automation or deny change requests.

The calendars feature defines the calendar to be associated with a schedule, time, or condition. This 
feature simplifies:

Reusing calendar definitions across processes

Building complex calendars from other calendars

Viewing the processes that run based on a specific calendar

Cisco Process Orchestrator ships with some pre-defined calendars for the most commonly-used 
scenarios. However, you can create your own calendar or copy and modify the pre-defined calendars 
based on your organizational requirements.