While calendars and resource schedules look the same, they are used for different purposes.

Court sessions are blocks of time that define the nature of court business to be used for scheduling events. The setup for a court session defines when the session takes place, which case categories and hearing types can be heard during that time, how the hearings proceed, and the capacity limit for the session (e.g., number of hearings). It is associated with specific resources (e.g., specific location, court officials).

The resources associated with a calendar are automatically added to any court sessions on that calendar. Resources are associated with the calendar's code. Calendar codes are maintained by your system administrator.

Resources can also be assigned to sessions when the court session is created or modified. That resource may be required before the session can take place.

Use Preferences (ALT+P) to choose how you want your calendar displayed each time you access it. Calendar (ALT+C) is used to view a different calendar during your current Odyssey session without changing your preferences.

If there are overlapping sessions on a calendar, a "Multiple Sessions" box is displayed in the time slots. Click it to view the scheduled times and other information for the different sessions. Clicking one of the sessions in the pop-up takes you to the session view.

If you selected to view multiple dates from the calendar, the dates are displayed in the order you selected them. For example, if you held down CTRL and clicked May 5, 10, 7, and 17, the dates are displayed in that order.

An unavailable resource can be set up to block out holidays and other system-wide unavailability. This unavailability is reflected on all calendars in the system. Users with appropriate rights can override this unavailability locally and add court sessions during the unavailable time.

These fields are disabled because of the following reasons:

To change the date of a single court session instance, use the Date field on the Modify Court Session dialog box.

Additional recurring session occurrences can be added (e.g., End after: n occurrences). However, the number of occurrences may not be decreased. Odyssey has no way of knowing which sessions the user would like to eliminate. Additionally, Odyssey does not allow court sessions to be eliminated if hearings are scheduled in the court sessions. This includes if hearings have been rescheduled because the scheduling history must be kept.

After you have added a resource type to the Select Court Session Resources dialog box, right-click a row containing a resource type that was added to the session and select Delete. You cannot delete the resource types added from the hearing type.

Interpreters are not considered resources on a court session. They are codes in Odyssey that are maintained by your system administrator.

Interpreters are assigned to individual hearing and not to a court session. Specific hearing types can require an interpreter, but they cannot be assigned as a resource to a court session.

Remove unavailable time from a resource schedule by right-clicking the unavailable time and selecting Delete Unavailable Time.

If the Volumes to be Moved list contains a case file that should not be moved, right-click that row and select Delete. The case file is removed from the list.

A case can only be added to the list if it has a case file history, meaning at least one case file location is added using the case Detail tab.

If a location has not been set for a case, it cannot be moved from the Move Multiple Case Files page.

Hearings, settings, and sessions are all used in scheduling. A hearing consists of one or more settings, and each setting is scheduled within a court session on a calendar.

A hearing is a calendared event that includes proceedings in which arguments, witnesses, or evidence is heard by a judicial officer or administrative body including court events, such as trials and motion hearings. Hearings also include conferences aimed at pre-trial settlement or quasi-judicial events involving alternate dispute resolution.

A setting is a part of the hearing and is usually individual days or scheduled meetings for the hearing. A hearing can have multiple settings.

A court session is a block of time defining the nature of court business to be used for scheduling hearings and events. Each court session belongs to a calendar and can have one or more hearing settings. Each calendar can have many court sessions.

There are several reasons why may not be displayed on the Select Time dialog box.

With the appropriate rights, schedule a setting at the same time as another one or enter a setting that makes the session go over capacity. In some cases, such as when the settings start at the same time and the limit for the session is based on duration or multiple settings are allowed in an interval, the session lets you schedule several settings for the same time.

When you enter a secure note, you are the only person who has access to those notes. Notes are different for each user who accesses the hearing.

Comments entered are available to anyone who accesses the hearing and are displayed in the Events & Hearings section of the case Summary tab.

You cannot cancel a setting if there is only one setting on the hearing. To cancel the setting, reschedule the setting or delete the hearing. You can also click to add another setting. After there is more than one setting, click to cancel a setting.

You also cannot cancel a setting if courtroom minutes have been entered for that setting. If there are results on the setting, you can delete the results, and then cancel the setting.

The green minutes icon denotes that courtroom minutes results have already been entered on this hearing setting. Click to display the courtroom minutes entered for the setting.

If the minutes for a setting contain at least one journal entry is marked as non-viewable, a green is displayed for the setting on the Modify Hearings dialog box. The blue is displayed beside a setting where at least one journal entry is marked as non-viewable and is flagged for follow-up.

You have the option to cancel or reschedule hearing settings:

Canceling a setting removes just that individual setting instead of the whole hearing. Deleting a hearing cancels all of the settings for that hearing.

When a judgment has been successfully validated, the proofed date appears on the judgment component.