Calendar package

What is This?

The Calendar package is a model that implements classes, making aggregation (for statistics, for example) easy.

It follows a common pattern with dimensions from data analysis. By prepopulating the database with days, months, years, weeks, etc, you can easily (and efficiently) find data to present in a diagram or table.

This model is cross-linked between all entities making the "conversion" between different calendar objects easy.

This package also contains views for creating, viewing, and maintaining the model content.

Download it here: CalendarPackage.modlr

Notes on Usage

1. The Calendar "main class" is a Singleton. Use Calendar.SO as a short way to access the singleton object.
   • For example in OCL: Calendar.SO.Today will return a Day object for today.
2. Use the methods in Calendar to quickly find the Day for a given date when you link new or existing data to the structure.
3. There are also several helper functions to find the next/previous day, week, or month or calculate the time between them.
   • For example in OCL: Day.GetDayForDate() returns a Day object by building a dictionary first for quick lookups.
4. Integers called Ordinals are used to have a stable way to calculate how far apart objects are in time.

Starting Up

• To create the data structure, start by using an action to create the years you want.
• Then with that, call FixupCalendar to create months and days of the calendar. You can call FixupCalendar many times without losing any data. It will simply update or correct problems.
• Weeks are a bit special. Week definitions vary in different parts of the world. Therefore, the WeekDefinition class sets the first day of the week, and weeks are then generated based on that.
• You can also define Saturday and Sunday (for example) as the "days off" every week.
• Use the country setting to define the default week definition for your users.