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Creating Exception Groups
You can create an exception group and add exceptions to it. This creates a new exception with its own
schedule that is followed by all exceptions within the group. Exception groups enable you to configure
at one time a set of common individual exceptions that share the same schedule.
The changes you make to the exception group are applied globally to all the exceptions within that
group. For example, if you change the priority of an exception group, all events in the schedules of the
exceptions within the group are updated with the new priority value. Also, if you add, delete, or
modify the event schedule of an exception that is a member of an exception group, the event schedules
for all the exceptions within the group are updated accordingly. For example, if you have a “Holiday”
exception group that includes Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving
exceptions, and you change the time of a CLOSED event in the Memorial Day event schedule, that
CLOSED event is automatically updated to the same time in the Fourth of July, Labor Day, and
Thanksgiving event schedule.
Note: When you add an exception to an exception group, the exception’s existing schedule is cleared
and updated with the schedule of the exception group. Therefore, create an exception group before
creating the event schedule of an exception that is to be added to the group.
To create an exception group, follow these steps:
1. Right-click an exception date or an empty space in the calendar, point to Add Exceptions, and
then click New Exception Group on the shortcut menu.
2. The New Exception Group dialog opens. All the exceptions in the exception schedule are listed
in order of creation.