Notifications - calendar vs schedule

[rcunning]

With schedules replacing calendars, shouldn't the schedule field in cmn_notif_message reference schedules instead of calendars?

[jwawa1]

This is an old question, but I'm curious about the answer too. My understanding is that Calendars (sys_calendar) is/has been deprecated in favor of Schedules (cmn_schedule), but is that only as they pertain to SLAs or are they being obsoleted in general? In particular, Notification Preferences still refer to schedules in sys_calendar and I have a request to make more 'schedules' available there. I hesitate to get users used to seeing more Calendar-based schedules if they're going to eventually go away. So what's the official status of Calendars (sys_calendar)?

Thanks,
-Joe

[Chris D]

Almost 15 years later and I stumbled upon this oddity of an otherwise redundant table in our Washington DC instance and this explained why I never heard of it before - because nothing uses sys_calendar... except notification subscriptions???

And you know what the crazy part is, in the same Notification Preferences, you can set a schedule for your devices, separate from the notifications themselves... and that uses cmn_schedule lol

Funny enough, there's only a few ootb sys_schedule records so that notification schedule dropdown is actually very user friendly, whereas cmn_schedule has tons of records (even visible to average users) so the device schedule is horribly unfriendly to use.

[sherwinmartins]

I noticed that jobs still use Calendar (sys_calendar) , Auto Close for incident is a good use case, where business days need to be considered.

Is sys_calendar legacy? Can't seem to find any documentation indicating it is.