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Schedule Process to stop after 23.45 hours

Alex__Faulkner — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 14:08:00 GMT

Hi,

I have a daily 24 hour process, which is scheduled to start running at 09:00 each morning. As is best practice, the process should stop and restart at least once in this period.

I would like to stop the process at 08:45 each morning, then the scheduler will kick it off again at 09:00.

I've looked at adding the "Stop After Time" session variable to the Stop decision, but can't find a way that would work. Example below.

I have a session variable of 08:45 to stop the process from the previous day. The scheduler kicks off at 09:00, but that would then be after 08:45, so would stop the process.

Is there any way around this? Could I use the Hourly/Minutely schedule option and start at 09:00 and stop at 08:45?

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Alex

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Alex Faulkner
RPA Lead
Babylon Health
Europe/London
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RE: Schedule Process to stop after 23.45 hours

dmma — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 14:21:00 GMT

Hi Alex,
You can try and add a check of time in the process before start and work on Next Item, if Local Time >=23.45.

If that will be true, just complete the process. Otherwise continue.

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Kind regards,

Dmitrij Mamajev
RPA Developer
Volvo Cars
Gothenburg - Sweden
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RE: Schedule Process to stop after 23.45 hours

JeroenOosterhol — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 14:45:00 GMT

What if you calculate the stop datetime at the very start of your process and use that to compare it to the current datetime in the Stop decision?
I.e. calculate a date time using Today +1 day and 08:45, then compare it to Now in the stop stage.

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Jeroen Oosterholt
Automation Designer
DHL
Maastricht
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RE: Schedule Process to stop after 23.45 hours

sutirtha.gupta — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 06:06:00 GMT

Hi Alex,

Your requirement is to stop the process next day 8.45 am if that start at today 9 am.

Keep the start day in a variable and check if the end date time greater or equal to

Start Day +1 8:45 am or not.

I guess it will resolve your problem.

Regards

Sutirtha Gupta

TCS, Kolkata

------Original Message------

Hi,

I have a daily 24 hour process, which is scheduled to start running at 09:00 each morning. As is best practice, the process should stop and restart at least once in this period.

I would like to stop the process at 08:45 each morning, then the scheduler will kick it off again at 09:00.

I've looked at adding the "Stop After Time" session variable to the Stop decision, but can't find a way that would work. Example below.

I have a session variable of 08:45 to stop the process from the previous day. The scheduler kicks off at 09:00, but that would then be after 08:45, so would stop the process.

Is there any way around this? Could I use the Hourly/Minutely schedule option and start at 09:00 and stop at 08:45?

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Alex

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Alex Faulkner
RPA Lead
Babylon Health
Europe/London
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RE: Schedule Process to stop after 23.45 hours

Alex__Faulkner — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 09:45:00 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for your replies.

I figured it out... I got the start date, then used the following calculation..

IsStopRequested()
OR
([S_time_Stop_After_Time] < LocalTime()
AND
Today() > [G_date_Start_Date])

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Alex Faulkner
RPA Lead
Babylon Health
Europe/London
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RE: Schedule Process to stop after 23.45 hours

MarcoMatuttis1 — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:29:00 GMT

If you use the standard blue prism process u have a data Item Stop After Time on the mainpage.

And in the Stop? Stage you have the following code:

IsStopRequested() OR LocalTime()>[Stop After Time]

If you set the data item to initial value 08:45:00 it should work.

The Process stops at 8:45. I guess it will log off the machine. And at 09:00 you can start the process from the control room again.

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Marco Matuttis
Robot Process Automation Developer
INTER Krankenversicherung AG
Mannheim
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