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# Create a general calendar

## Overview

*General calendars* serve as the basis for when alarms are escalated. 

We recommend, *General calendars* to set it up as generously as possible. Often a *General Calendar* is created for a whole year. 

By leaving days out, you can use the General Calendar to define when alarms should NOT be escalated, e.g. on public holidays. Bear in mind that you can have multiple General Calendars and select multiple General Calendars for each escalation.<br>

## Create calendar

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1. Click on **Engineering \[A]**
2. Click on **Escalation \[B]**
3. **Click on \[C]**

   ▷ The calendar view opens.
4. Click on **\[D]**\
   ▷ The window opens **\[D1]**
5. Give the calendar a name **\[D2]**&#x20;
6. Click on **\[D3]**, to create new dates in the calendar
7. Activate the switch **\[D4]**
8. Select under **\[D5]** the start date
9. Select under **\[D6]** the end date
10. Optional: Click again on **\[D3]** to create further entries.\
    ◈ By leaving dates out between the entries, you can deactivate escalations for a certain period of time, e.g. for public holidays.
11. Click on **Save** **\[D7]**


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