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• The declaration includes to specify if a variable is mandatory or if it is optional at it and makes use of a default value.
• The Schedules Schedule object view requires that mandatory variables are assigned a value. In addition, values for optional variables can be specified.
  
  

Release Schedule

Schedules are not deployed to a Controller and Agent. Instead, they are used by the JS7 - Daily Plan Service to create orders for workflow execution at the given days.

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Cyclic Orders vs. Cyclic Workflows

As an alternative to cyclic orders created by Schedules using repeat intervals the JS7 - Cycle Instruction is available for cyclic workflows.

• Execution
  • A Cycle Instruction spawning a complete workflow is an equivalent to use of cyclic orders from a Schedule.
  • In addition, a Cycle Instruction can be used to execute parts of a workflow in cycles.
• Efficiency
• Schedules create a number of order instances for each period in a cycle, Running a single workflow every 30s counts to 2880 orders per day.
• Cycle Instructions cause cyclic execution of a workflow from a single order.
• Processing of cyclic workflows is by far more efficient than use of cyclic orders.
• Error Handling
  • Failure
    • If a job in a workflow fails then this will occur for each order instance of a cyclic order individually.
    • If a job within a Cycle Instruction fails then depending on the error handling in place any cycles that would occur while an order is in a failed state are skipped..
  • Notification
    • For each failing order instance of a cyclic order a JS7 - Notification is created.
    • For the single order of a cyclic workflow a single Notification is created.
  •  Intervention
    • Any operations on cyclic orders are applied to all order instances included, for example to resume execution after failure. This results in parallel execution of orders previously scheduled for execution in intervals.
    • For cyclic workflows there is a single order that waits for user intervention.
• Logging
  • For each order instance of a cyclic order a separate entry is created in the JS7 - Order History and in the JS7 - Task History.
  • For a cyclic workflow there is a single entry in the Order History that is appended the log output of each cycle. Individual entries per job execution are added to the Task History.

Use with the Daily Plan

When configuring a Schedule then two settings can be checked that determine use with the Daily Plan:

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