There may be days or periods of time that you do not want new work to generate. Lucity calls these dates Exclusion Days. A PM that is set to generate a Work Order will not generate if the Work Order's Start Date will fall on an Exclusion Day. Some examples of exclusion days are:
Sundays
Holidays (Christmas days off)
Months where all manpower is focused on specific pursuits (don't generate hydrant flushing work from November to February)
Seasons where a particular type of work can't or shouldn't be done. For example, leaf blowing PMs should only generate work from October to December.
Levels of Exclusion Days
There are several tiers of exclusion days:
System Exclusion Days - These are for setting up exclusion days that apply to the entire organization. The best example of this would be to stop work from generating on Sunday or on holidays.
PM Specific Exclusion Days - These are for exclusion days that are specific to the PM, and are usually tied to the needs of a specific department, or the type of work being done.
Standard PM days are configured in the PM record's PM Exclusion Days grid.
Day of the Week - Excludes one day out of every week. This enables an organization to have work not generate Work Orders on a day that they do not work.
Date Ranges - Excludes one or more dates between a specific start and end date.
Modifications
Seasonal Dates/Date Ranges - Tells the system that a PM Specific Exclusion should be applied to future years. The seasonal exclusion dates are updated at the start of each new year. *Note that all System Exclusion Days are treated this way, while PM Specific Exclusion Days records must be marked Seasonal in order to update each year.
Work Day Overrides - Counteracts an exclusion day by telling the system that a specific date should actually generate work. This can be used to override system exclusion days that do not apply or to override a single day in a range of dates that are otherwise excluded.