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PiotrWieczerzak
Level 3
Status: Reviewed
I have few business cases when I think will be good to improve scheduler process.

1st Case
Bot should work every 5 minutes, but only during first 5 days in the month, every month. Business days are calculated based on USA calendar. Bot is now in deployment process and first run will be in May.
2, Case - main rule is that bot should work every 1h during first 5 Business days every month, but there are some months that should work few additional dates (Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct). this is done manually , but based on Polish calendar
37140.png3rd case - again every 5 minutes within below days. USA Calendar Every month bot has two periods of work (5 days , then break , and next  4-6 days). 
January- 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 23, 24, 25
February- 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28
March- 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28
April- 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26
May- 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
June- 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27
July- 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26
August- 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28
September- 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26
October- 12, 13, 16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 26
November-13, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28
December- 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27
The only option which I am aware is to create dedicated calendar for this bot (with holiday of all not green marked days) and then schedule it every few 5 minutes/1 hours. Every year in November I am receiving expected calendars for next year. And then I am going to calendar, and adding a lot of holidays, day by date. Example of my calendar: 
37141.pngThis is very time consuming and manual work. 

Do you think about possibility to add to monthly scheduler - that bot can run within first 5 BD every 5 minutes/1 hours? or maybe via periods - first period 1-5 BDs, next period 9-12 BDs, and also every 5minutes/1hour. 
Also, would be good to manage some exceptions, that normally bot will be working first 5 BDs, but in some months more days.
After adding periods, would be good to have simulation of calendar - based on created rules (first 5BDs), country calendar (USA), press one button and will display in which days bot will be working, or will not be working,

Now I can only create on monthly schedule that bot can work ex First BD day, but just one time? Or I have create own calendar and have to exclude as holiday over 200 days.
2 Comments
chris.strong
Staff
Staff

Thank you @Piotr Wieczerzak

 

I’ve set the Idea Status to Reviewed, and left it open for the community to comment on and vote for too.

 

Extra information:

  • It looks like you have far less working days that holidays, which I’m assuming in the problematic thing for you.  In your case, I think the solution to your request is to “only run automations on these dates”, then have the ability to set the “working dates” rather than the holidays as is today.

  • Tip: Using the Blue Prism 7.2 API (or later), you can programmatically update your Calendars, so you may find is simpler to update the Calendars programmatically each November, based on your dates in a spreadsheet and an RPA process, rather than updating the calendar manually.


 

Kind regards

Chris Strong

Senior Product Manager

SS&C Blue Prism

chris.strong
Staff
Staff