Legacy scheduled events

Before we discuss the details of putting events in calendars, it is helpful to explain just what we mean by an event. When we are talking about events that can appear in a calendar, we are talking about scheduled events. A scheduled event begins at a particular time. It has a duration. After a scheduled event begins and its duration has passed, the scheduled event ends.

A Scheduled Event record is used to represent a scheduled event in the IBM TRIRIGA Application Platform. To be useful, Scheduled Event records should not be created directly. Instead, they should be created indirectly by a SCHEDULE action performed on an Event record. The form for editing Event records does not have an action in its menu bar for performing a SCHEDULE action on an Event record.

At least three workflow tasks are needed for a workflow to create Scheduled Event records. The first task is a Schedule task. A Schedule task does not create Scheduled Event records. What it does is create an Event record. The Event record describes one or more scheduled events.

After the Event record is created, one or more workflow tasks are needed to set the fields in the Event record.

The last workflow task needed is a Trigger Action task to perform a SCHEDULE action on the Event record. This causes the Scheduled Event records to be created.

The Schedule workflow task is described in "Schedule workflow task".

The Event and Scheduled Events business objects are in the Mail module.

Setting the fields of the Event record is described in "Fields in legacy event records".

Trigger Action workflow tasks are described in "Trigger action task".

What happens after a SCHEDULE action is performed on an Event record is described in "Scheduled events".