How about a "PAUSE ALL SCHEDULES" option ?

[f_richey]

Is there a way to pause all schedules at once? If not, it seems useful to be able to click one button and pause ALL activity. Very useful while working on devices, fixing lights, sprinklers, installing switches, etc. when you don't want anything turned on by accident. It will be a safety feature.

[Michel Kohanim]

f_richey,

 

It's an excellent idea. There's a workaround though: put an invalid condition in My Programs and thus all the programs/folders below are disabled.

 

With kind regards,

Michel

 

Is there a way to pause all schedules at once? If not, it seems useful to be able to click one button and pause ALL activity. Very useful while working on devices, fixing lights, sprinklers, installing switches, etc. when you don't want anything turned on by accident. It will be a safety feature.

[JasonWPB]

An alternative solution that you can use now is to disable all programs. Select them all and then simply right click and choose disable.

[f_richey]

I guess I was dreaming about a simple, quick, single "PAUSE" button on the screen. It would disable the scheduler from starting any programs. No other changes required.

 

I'm not fond of the idea of selecting all and changing to disable, because the reverse procedure may enable all, which is not what you always want. So, you have to remember which ones to enable and which to not.

 

I'm hoping enough customers agree that a single on/off PAUSE button to the entire scheduler would be very clean and obvious. Perhaps with a RED/GREEN color change to the button. This would not require the user to do any workarounds.

 

Might be a good future enhancement! ?

[MikeB]

IMO I'd like to see something that would pause/temporarily disable all programs within any folder of your choice. This would be more flexible - you could use this function on the "My Programs" folder to disable every program, or use the function on any other folder within your hierarchy if you want a quick way to pause a subset of your programs.

 

Maybe right-click a folder and check off a "PAUSE" option or something similar. I would imagine the folder icon would have an X through it or something similar.

 

But, as stated in the post above, I think it's important that the function does not go and manually disable each program - it should be able to easily revert programs back to their previous states.

 

I think Michel's suggestion is a perfect workaround for now.

[Sub-Routine]

While I agree a button may have some use it is possible, as Michel suggested, to modify the My Programs folder to prevent all programs from running. Simply select a Schedule condition and do not select any days for the schedule to execute on.

 

On Never:

Folder Conditions for 'My Programs'
Add conditions to limit when programs in this folder are allowed to run.



If
       On Never
       Time is  7:05:00PM on 2008/08/28

Then
  Allow the programs in this folder to run.

 

 

Rand