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Now configure the Frequency for the National Holidays for 2017 - in this Use Case we will be using Holidays from the United Kingdom and selecting All Daysall the days.
Click on Add Frequency to note the configuration and then change the Year to 2018 and again select all the days. The modal window should now look like this:
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In addition the Show Assigned Calendars item in the Order's Additional Options menu allows the assigned calendars to be checked.
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A Period, specifying the Repeat Interval, Start Time and behavior on Non-Working days should now be configured for the Working Day Calendar. This is done in the New Period modal window which is opened by clicking on the + symbol in the Period column of the Set Run-time window (shown in several screenshots above). The configuration in the New Period window shown should be self-explanatory.
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Easter (Friday, the 30th March and Monday, the 2nd April), for example, is clearly shown as Non-Working Days.
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Using Restrictions to Configure Job/Order Starts for Every 3rd Working Day
Reopen the Set Run-time modal window fr the order_cs Order and then click on the + symbol in the Restrictions column:
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This will open the Add frequency : Recurring Days modal as shown in the next screenshot:
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After configuring a Recurring Days Frequency for December 2017 as shown in the screenshot above, repeat this procedure for Every 3rd day for 2018, valid From from the 1st January to the 31st of December. In both cases the Valid From date sets the point from which every third day is to be counted. Click on Close once both Restrictions have been set to return to the Set Run-time window, which will appear as shown in the next screenshot:
Show Daily Plan
The effects of the Every 3rd day restriction can be seen in the Daily Plan view for the order_cs Order shown below:
The regular pattern is only changed when the execution date falls on one of the holidays specified in the Non-Working days Calendar. The behavior on Non-Working days was defined for the Order in the Period modal window and described in the Period section above. For both run-times (15:00 and 21:00) the On Non-Working days setting was left at the default suppress execution.
This has the following effects:
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- 1st of January is a non-working day,
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- execution is suppressed.
- Note that this means that there is no execution between the 27th December 2017 and the 4th January 2018. This is even though the 1st of January was defined as a Valid From date for the Restriction.
- Easter (30th March and 2nd April) and Christmas (25th and 26th December) are simply ignored.
A number of behaviors can be specified for each Period in addition to the default suppress execution. These are:
- execute on preceding working day
- execute on succeeding working day
- the default suppress execution and
- ignore non-working day
To demonstrate the effects these settings can have on the execution dates open the skipped.In Show Run-timemodal window for the Order and then click on Edit Period (the pencil symbol), which will open the following window:
The effect of the remaining On Non-Working Day settings on execution dates will be described next.
Execute on preceding working day
The last execution date in 2017 is the Wednesday, 27th of December and the last Working day the 29th. The execution for the Monday, 1st January 2018 will be moved to the last working day in December, Friday the 29th as can be seen in the next two screenshots showing part of the Daily Plan for 2017 and 2018:
Execute on succeeding working day
With this setting the Order will be executed, for example, on the day after the first of January as shown in the next screenshot:
Ignore non-working day
This setting means, for example, that execution on the 1st of January 2018 will take place as can be seen in the screenshot below:
