Managing special days

From the Special Days UI, AIDA administrator can define special days in the prediction model.

Before you begin

Special days are days on which a KPI trend is affected by seasonality factors such as national holidays, vacation, business cycles, recurring events. To avoid false positive alerts, the special days are included in AIDA prediction model with a higher tolerance level than the standard days.

Adding special days

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Use the Special Days UI to define special days in the KPIs trend. From AIDA left hand sidebar, select Special Days.

The Special Days UI landing page contains a table with all the special days defined in AIDA. For each special day, the following information is displayed:

Name
The name of the special day (or interval between two dates).
Date
A single day (or interval).
Repeat
For recurring special days, define how often you want the special day (or interval) to repeat. It can be:
  • None
  • Every day
  • Every week
  • Every month
  • Every year
  • Custom
End Repeat
Define when you want to stop repeating
Description
A description of the special day (or interval).
Status
The status of the special day (or interval). Can be Active or Draft.
The table shows the row action icons available for each special day:
Edit
Click this action icon to edit the special day.
Delete
Click this action icon to delete the special day. By deleting a special day, the day will be considered as a standard day.

To define a new special day in AIDA, click the Add Special Day button.

In the Type drop-down menu you can select one of the following types of special days.
  • Country specific holidays
  • Custom date
AIDA prediction model is automatically retrained every 24 hours. However, when you change or add special days, to immediately activate their effect on prediction, you can retrain the prediction model upon request. Run the following steps:
  1. Click the Retrain all KPIs button and confirm the request. A notification appears on the page header, informing that the retraining process is in progress. The number of KPIs involved is displayed.
  2. Click See details to view details about the retraining of each single KPI.
  3. A page notification informs you about the retraining process completion.

Adding country specific holidays

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You can add your country specific holidays. Run the following steps:
  1. On the Add Special Day panel, in the Type drop-down menu, select Country specific holidays.
  2. In the Country drop-down menu, select your country. The list of all your country specific holidays is displayed.
  3. Click the Add Special Day button.

Adding a custom date

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You can add a custom special day (or interval between two dates) like, for example, the monthly financial closing dates. Run the following steps:
  1. On the Add Special Day panel, in the Type drop-down menu, select Custom date.
  2. In the Name field, provide the name of the special day or interval.
  3. Select a day in the Start Date calendar.
  4. If you are defining a special interval, check the Add End Date check-box and select a day in the End Date calendar .
  5. Select the frequency in the Repeat drop-down list. To customize the frequency, select Custom. In the Frequency drop-down menu, select one of the following options:
    Daily
    Specify Every n days
    Weekly
    Specify Every n weeks, and select the days of the week
    Monthly
    Specify Every n months, and select the days of the month.
    Yearly
    Specify Every n years, and select the months of the year.
  6. Specify the End Repeat date (default value is Never).
  7. Add a description in the Description field.
  8. Set Status toggle to Active.
  9. Click the Add Special Day button.