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• The Cycle Instruction allows to repeat all jobs or a number of jobs and additional instructions in a workflow.
• The Cycle Instruction can be used
  • to spawn the complete workflow,
  • to spawn a number of jobs in a workflow,
  • in a sequential way by using a number of Cycle Instructions within the same workflow,
  • in a nested way by embedding Cycle Instructions within the same workflow.
• The Cycle Instruction offers some versatile options when to repeat execution and how often this should happen.
• Consider that a Cycle Instruction spawning a complete workflow is an alternative to using JS7 - Schedules for cyclic orders.
  • The difference being that JS7 - Schedules create cyclic orders whereas the Cycle Instruction causes cyclic execution of a workflow for a single order.
  • For each cyclic order a separate log entry is created while cyclic workflows report to the same log.
  • Processing of cyclic workflows is by far more efficient than use of cyclic workflows.

• Display feature availability
  StartingFromRelease 2.1.0

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Elements of the Cycle Instruction

The Cycle Instruction allows to specify any number of cycles that define different rule sets when to repeat job nodes and other instructions.

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• the begin of first cycle considering the workflow's time zone
• the maximum duration for which cycles are repeated, for example for 8 hours.

Cycles consider the weekday an order is scheduled for:

• if the Cycle Instruction includes a rule set for the weekday of the order's scheduled date then this is considered by the order and makes the order wait for the first cycle to start.
• if the Cycle Instruction does not includes a rule set for the weekday of the order's scheduled date then the order skips the cycle.

Periodical Execution

This cycle type allows to specify both

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