DOCUMENT:Q153769 21-MAY-2001 [schedplus] TITLE :XCLN: How to Automatically Import Holidays into Schedule+ 7.0 PRODUCT :Microsoft Schedule+ for Windows PROD/VER:WINDOWS:7.0 OPER/SYS: KEYWORDS: ====================================================================== 7.00 WINDOWS kbusage kbhowto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in this article applies to: - Microsoft Schedule+ for Windows, version 7.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY ======= You can import Federal, National, Company, and Personal holidays into multiple user's files automatically by creating a holiday schedule file and making it available to every user by sending it to them via an attachment or a Hot Link in a mail message. MORE INFORMATION ================ To create a holiday schedule file: 1. Start Schedule+, click the File menu, click Open, and then click Archive or Project Schedule. 2. In the Open Archive or Project Schedule dialog box, type "Holidays" (without the quotation marks) in the File Name textbox and click the Open button. 3. Now create appointments covering normal working hours, and enter an accurate description, of each holiday. 4. Click the File menu, click Export, click Schedule+ Interchange, and export the information, using Holidays.sc2 as the file name. 5. Click Close on the File menu. There are two ways to make this file accessible to your users: - As an attached file: 1. Send the Holidays.sc2 file as an attachment via a Microsoft Exchange mail message. 2. In the message body, instruct them to double-click on the attachment. 3. They will be asked if they want to import the Holidays.sc2 information into their SCD file. Tell them to click the OK button to import the holiday information into their appointment book. - Using the Hot Links feature: 1. Place the Holidays.sc2 file on a shared location that everyone has access to. 2. Create a message that includes a line similar to the following: file:\\\\Holidays.sc2 replacing the server and share names with the correct location. 3. In the message body, instruct them to double-click on the attachment. 4. They will be asked if they want to import the Holidays.sc2 information into their SCD file. Tell them to click the OK button to import the holiday information into their appointment book. Additional query words: 7.00 ====================================================================== Keywords : Technology : kbOfficeSearch kbSQLServ700 kbScheduleSearch kbOffice95Search kbZNotKeyword3 Version : WINDOWS:7.0 ============================================================================= THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE MICROSOFT KNOWLEDGE BASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. MICROSOFT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT CORPORATION OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF MICROSOFT CORPORATION OR ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY. Copyright Microsoft Corporation 2001.