Issue with Running Hourly Schedule Using Odd Numbers

DarrenIsaacs — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:53:00 GMT

When creating a Schedule to run every hour. I am setting it to run every 5 hours, however, each day the scheduled time is incremented by an hour. This seems to be occurring whenever the hourly frequency is set as an odd number.

When it's set to an even number (IE every 4 hours), it runs at the same times each day>

Example:

The schedule is set to run "Every 4 hours" between 1:59 PM & 6:01 PM starting at 2 PM EACH day
The process kicks off at 2 PM & 6 PM

However when

The schedule is set to run "Every 5 hours" between 1:59 PM & 7:01 PM starting at 2 PM EACH day
The process kicks off at 2 PM & 6 PM for the current day, then 3 PM ONLY on the next day, then 4 PM ONLY the next.

There seems to be an inaccuracy when setting hourly runs using odd numbers.

We're currently using Blue Prism v6.4.2

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Darren Isaacs
Process Controller
South Africa/Cape Town
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RE: Issue with Running Hourly Schedule Using Odd Numbers

Bryant.backus — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:08:00 GMT

Hi Darren,

I was wondering if you had found a solution for this? I am facing the same problem and would like to avoid making separate schedules if possible.

I wonder if anyone knows why this happens. Doesn't really make much sense to me...

Best,
Bryant

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Bryant Backus
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