Time conditions are a set of rules for hours, dates, or days of the week. A condition has two call targets each time. Calls sent to a time condition will be sent to one target if the time of the call matches one of the conditions, or to the other target if none of the conditions match. Each time condition can have multiple time definitions (known as time groups). Time conditions are often used to control how a phone system responds to callers inside and outside of business hours, and during holidays.
Before we can set up a time condition call target, we need to define a set of time groups. Time groups are a list of rules against which incoming calls are checked. The rules specify a specific date or time, and a call can be routed differently if the time it comes in matches with one of the rules in a time group. Each time group can have an unlimited number of rules defined. It is useful to group similar sets of time rules together. For example, there may be one-time group for business hours in which the time that the business will be open will be defined. Another popular time group is for holidays, in which each holiday that falls on a business day is defined.
General
- Description*, used to identify the time group, when selecting it during the setup of a time condition. This value is not parsed by vPBX.
Schedules Section
- Time to Start, time, in hours and minutes, that the time group should start.
- Weekday Start, day of the week that the time group should start.
- Month Day Start, day of the month that the time group should start.
- Month Start, month of the year that the time group should start.
- Time to finish, time, in hours and minutes, that the time group should end.
- Weekday Finish, day of the week that the time group should end.
- Month Day Finish, day of the month that the time group should end.
- Month Finish, month of the year that the time group should end.