General
JobScheduler Order and Schedule's contain the "Time Element" of the scheduling. There could be two usecases
1. Predefined Days i.e. Non Working days or Holidays
To suppress execution on predefined non-working-days or Holidays , user can create Holiday Calender for all Jobs in JobScheduler or for individual process i.e. orders/jobs , include the same in respecticve Orders/Schedules.
2. Adhoc days processing should be suppressed
In some Adhoc usecases, predefined Order/Schedule's has to be suppressed or should not execute and should resume its normal execution once "suppressed" time is passed.
There are two approaches to achieve this
JOE :Add Non Working Days to Order "Persistent Change"
IMP : Changes done using JOE are persistent changes and will remain in effect even after JobScheduler restart
1. Original Order without "holiday/Non working days" will run every day at 08:00 AM
2. Open JOE and add Non Working days/dates into order
3. Check run time and make sure "suppress execution" is selected
4. Save order IMP: Default option for Holidays "suppress execution" will not appear in XML file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<order job_chain="execute_pf" id="daily">
<run_time let_run="no">
<period single_start="08:00"/>
<holidays >
<holiday date="2014-05-17"/>
<holiday date="2014-05-18"/>
</holidays>
</run_time>
</order>
4. Deploy the updated order in JobScheduler's live folder
JOC :Add holidays to Order "Non Persistent Change"
IMP : Any change into order from JOC is non persistent and will be lost after JobScheduler restart
1. Right Click on order menu, set run time
2. Click on Run time editor
3. Click on Holidays
4. Add required dates execution should be suppressed in to Order
5. Check "supress execution" is selected
6. Save order , now Order XML should also have holidays element
7. Check start time using option show start time
Questions
1. If I enter 'Non Working Days' values, do I need to change 'When Holiday' in my 'Run Time' entry from 'ignore_holiday' to 'suppress execution'?
Yes, but since "suppress execution" when holidays is default behavior for Scheduler , you will not see the "xml" tag in order configuration.
2. I have not defined any global holidays, but are any pre-defined, and would they cause this order to also be suppressed on those days?
No , Until you do not "explicitly" include Holidays-Calendar in your order/schedule it will not have any effect.