Introduction

• User Users might be interested in automatically receiving reports about the JS7 - Daily Plan which state states what workflows are scheduled at which date and time.
  • Such reports include similar information to that which is available in the JOC Cockpit's Daily Plan view.
  • The reports are provided as Excel® files similar to those which are available for export from the JOC Cockpit Daily Plan view.
• These reports can be scheduled, for example on a daily basis, to provide ongoing information about completed orders and timed orders for workflow execution.

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• Line 1: The job is executed with a Windows Agent and uses the PowerShell shebang for Windows, as explained above.
• Line 3-4: The required PowerShell modules are imported. They could be installed at any location in the file system
• Line 6-7: The Connect-JS7 cmdlet is used to authenticate with the JS7 REST Web Service API. The required arguments for -Url , -Credentials and -Id can specified in a number of ways:
  • As described in the JS7 - How to connect to JOC Cockpit using the PowerShell Module article.
  • Using JS7 - Job Resources which inject environment variables to the PowerShell job.
  • Using a PowerShell profile.
• Line 10: For better readability of the report the start types of jobs are mapped to a textual representation (single start, cyclic start etc.).
• Line 13: The Get-JS7DailyPlanOrder cmdlet is invoked
  • with the -Timezone parameter to specify which time zone date values in the report should be converted to. The -Timezone (Get-Timezone) parameter value specifies that the time zone of the Agent's server is used. Otherwise specify the desired time zone can be specified, for example like this: -Timezone (Get-Timezone -Id 'GMT Standard Time').
  • When this parameter is not specified then any date values will be stored in the report as UTC dates.
  • optionally with additional parameters, for example to specify the date or date range which the report is being created for. A value -RelativeDateTo +7d specifies that the report should cover the next 7 days (until midnight). Keep in mind that dates have to be specified for the UTC time zone. Without this parameter the report will be created for the next day.
  • see the Get-JS7DailyPlanOrder cmdlet for a full parameter reference.
• Line 14-26: From the output of the Get-JS7DailyPlanOrder cmdlet a number of properties are selected and and are specified for the sequence in which they should occur in the report. 
  • To add more appropriate column headers the property names are mapped to a more readable textual representation.
  • Note the handling of date formats in line 21-25. Use of the Get-Date cmdlet converts the output format of dates (not the time zone) to the default format that is in place on the Agent's server. Without using the Get-Date cmdlet any date values will be stored to the report in ISO format, e.g. 2020-12-31 10:11:12+02:00 for a date in the European central time zone that is UTC+1 in winter time and UTC+2 in summer time.
  • Lines 23, 26 introduce a new property, a calculated duration. The difference in seconds between the start time and end time values of a planned start and optionally of a past start is calculated and forwarded to the report.
• Line 27: The list of properties per Daily Plan item is piped to the Export-Excel cmdlet which is available with the ImportExcel PowerShell Module. The report file name is specified and optionally the worksheet. For a full list of parameters see the ImportExcel PowerShell Module.

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