At the top of most of your holiday files, there are comment lines which explain the format of the entries in the file.  You may gain valuable knowledge by studying these comments.

If there are preliminary comments in your holiday file, you may get to calendar 0 (zero) by using the Page Down key.

NEVER delete the lines that begin with an asterisk (*) since these lines distinguish among the sections of the file and are referenced internally in Medianet by the number following the asterisk.

NEVER delete the line “H SA SU.”  That line defines Saturdays and Sundays as holidays.

 All other holidays for your media center must be designated in a line that starts with “H,” followed by the date of the holiday in YY/MM/DD format.  Be careful since Americans are not used to entering dates with the year first.  Each part of the date must contain two numbers; i.e., February must be shown as “02” not “2.”

Dates must be kept in order.

You may delete dates that are older than today.

When you enter a range of dates, you must repeat the entire YY/MM/DD sequence in the second part of the date range; e.g., 01/11/22-01/11/23 or 01/12/24-02/01/02.

You may have other calendars for the school districts that you serve if you wish.  These each would have a section number following an asterisk.  This number is then entered at question 28 in Update-Client for a school.  It is not necessary to put a holiday in another section if it is already in Calendar 0, since all the holidays for Calendar 0 apply to all other calendars as well.

Some sections of your holiday file contain calendars for your delivery modes/routes.  Do not change or delete these sections without first consulting your Medianet support representative.

IMPORTANT: You must run P,DBS from "Subsystem?" to check for errors and to put the new calendar settings into effect for you. This procedure will check for calendar file errors and report them to you. If it runs to completion without error, then your new calendar settings will be in effect.

Below is part of a correctly formatted holiday file which illustrates some of the above points.

!!!======

!!!======

! Your media center's holidays

*0

H SA SU

H,01/09/03

H,01/10/19

H,01/11/22-01/11/23

H,01/12/21-02/01/02

H,02/01/21

H,02/02/18

H,02/03/29

H,02/05/27

! Monday/Thursday delivery (Route 1)

*1

H TU W F

! Tuesday/Friday delivery (Route 2 & Groveport)

*2

H M W TH

! Canal Winchester

*10

H,02/02/19

H,02/03/29-02/04/05