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Problem
Sometimes instances of periodic orders have to be skipped, e.g. for maintenance. This recipe describes how to skip one ore or more planned executions of an order using schedules.
Configuration
Assume you have an order which should be started at 10 p.m. every day. Normally you would add a run-time like this directly to the order configuration:
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<period single_start="22:00"/> |
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<schedule substitute="every_day_at_10pm" valid_from="2013-01-01 00:00:00" valid_to="2013-01-01 01:00:00" name="manual_start"/> |
The time range is in the past, so it will have no effect at the timeIn this example the schedule substitute manual_start is effective for the first hour of the year 2013.
Solution
After preparing the configuration described above you can skip the daily run-time for a specific time range using JOC as follows:
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