Accreditation timeline — cycle start

cycle start (AccreditationTimeline.cycleStart) is a field stored on each accreditation timeline record in Chalk, the higher-education academic operations platform for curriculum, assessment, faculty, scheduling, accreditation, and budget. It holds a DateTime value and is part of the accreditation timeline record's data. The cycleStart field belongs to the accreditation timeline it is recorded on, so faculty, staff, and automations read or set cycleStart while working with that AccreditationTimeline record. Because cycleStart is part of the AccreditationTimeline record, it stays consistent with the rest of that record's data and is scoped to the tenant that owns the accreditation timeline.