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Use the Assign Working Day Calendar button to open the Calendar selection window.
Select the calendar and then click on the Apply button - not shown in the screenshot - to return to the Set Run-time modal window which will now appear as shown below:
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Enter a Start Time - here a ' Single Start at 15:00 has been entered. Clicking the Save button now will cause the Period configuration to be added to the Order.
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Re-open the Set Run-time modal window for the Order using the Edit Calendar menu item as shown below.:
Click on the "+" symbol in the Restrictions column to add a new restriction for the Calendar as shown in the next screenshot:
In This will open the Add Frequencies modal window, . Now select the Recurring Days tab, complete the fields as shown in the next screenshot and click Add Frequency to note the configuration.
The Valid From setting is particularly important as it defines the starting point for the calculation of the recurring days.
Now repeat this procedure for 2018: change the Valid From and Valid To settings to the 1st January 2018 and 31st December 2018 respectively and then click on Add Frequency again.
In the screenshot shown below it can be seen that two Every 3rd day frequencies have been set - one for December and one for the whole of 2018.
Now click Close and the Every 3rd Day Restriction will be added to the Set Run-time configuration as shown below:
The Every 3rd Day Restriction effectively functions as a filter on the wkg_day_mo-fr-hol Calendar. It means that the Order will run on every 3rd day that has been defined as a Working Day and that all other days will simply be ignored.
As already noted above, in this article, holidays have been specified in this Calendar as excluded Working Days and not as Non- Working Days. This effectively effectively excludes a more sophisticated behavior around non-working days such as holidays, such as execution on the preceding day. See the Calendar Use Cases - Managing Working Day and Non-Working Day Calendars article for an alternative approach that allows execution to be moved.
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- With the Edit XML function in the Set Run-time modal window:
- With the Calendar View window, which is accessed using the Order's Show CalendarDaily Plan function:
The Valid From 1st Dec 2017 setting in the 2017 Every 3rd day Restriction filters out all dates from the current month (November) but provides a clear starting point for calculating execution dates in December. Similarly the Valid From 1st Jan 2018 setting in the 2018 Every 3rd day Restriction filters provides a clear starting point for calculations for that year. This also means that in the changeover from the 2017 restriction to the 2018 only one working day will be left between execution on the 28th of December and on the 2nd of January.
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