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There is more than one way how to do it, a number of alternative implementations are possible.

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The Cycle Instruction is an option that users apply who want to watch directories during certain business hours only.

The instruction allows to specify weekdayspecifying weekdays, month days etc. and the period during the day for which the job will be repeatedly executed.

Clicking the Cycle Instruction in the Configuration view displays the cycle in the right panel with from the property editor.

Clicking the period brings up the details of the cycle:

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• PowerShell is available for Windows servers by default.
  • Consider the shebang in the first line of the job that indicates the PowerShell version in use:
    • the string following string indicates use of powershell.exe from version 5.1:
      • @@setlocal enabledelayedexpansion & @@findstr/v "
      ^@@f
      • ^@@[fs].*&" "%~f0" | powershell.exe -
      &goto:eof
      • NonInteractive -Command - & exit !errorlevel!/b&
    • the following string indicates use of powershellpwsh.exe from version 5.1.the string 6 or 7:
      • @@setlocal enabledelayedexpansion & @@findstr/v "
      ^@@f
      • ^@@[fs].*&" "%~f0" |
      pwsh
      • powershell.exe -NonInteractive -
      &goto:eof indicates use of pwsh.exe from version 6 or 7.
      • Command - & exit !errorlevel!/b&
• PowerShell can be installed for Unix environments such as Linux and MacOS.
  
  • Consider to modify modifying the shebang in the first line of the job like this:
    • the string #!/usr/bin/env pwsh can be used assuming that pwsh is the binary of the PowerShell interpreter.
      
      

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In the Workflows view users can add an order to the Directory Watching workflow:

• The workflow's action menu offers the "Add Order" operation.
• Alternatively the icon can be used to add an order.
  
  

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When the order is added it will be displayed in the Workflows view

• from a green bullet indicting in the same row as the job that is executed.
• from the History panel the Order ID is visible that can be clicked to open the order's log view window.
  
  

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• information about the start time and the Agent used to execute the workflow,
• information about workflow variables,
• any output created by the job,
• the contents of the monitor log that holds registered events.
  
  

Adding a Schedule

If the workflow runs fine you can automate execution by adding a schedule, see JS7 - Schedules.

• Assign the newly created workflow to your schedule.
• The list of workflow variables will be displayed similarly to adding an ad hoc order.
  
  

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Using the Run-time button brings up the popup window to specify start time rules:

• Adding a schedule requires to assign a working day calendar, see JS7 - Calendars and Schedules.
• For the start time add a period with a single start at midnight of your time zone.
  • The workflow's Cycle Instruction will rule the point in time during the day when the order will start on the given days.
• Optionally add a Restriction to limit execution of the workflow to certain days, for example Mon-Fri.
  
  

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