Introduction

• The Daily Plan is used to manage Orders that are executed by Workflows available with the connected Controllers. 
• The Daily Plan runs existing JS7 - Schedules and generates Orders for the resulting days and start times. This applies to Schedules that specify a single start time for an Order and to Schedules that specify cyclic starts. For each start time in a cycle an individual Order is created. Planned Orders are available for any modification of start times and variables. In a subsequent step such Orders are submitted to the respective Controllers. 
• This functionality is available for automation with the JS7 - Daily Plan Service. In addition, JOC Cockpit offers a user interface to manage the Daily Plan, to create Orders and to submit Orders to Controllers.

Schedules

Orders are created from Schedules that indicate the Workflow and variables to be used as well as the run-time specification, i.e. the rules for which days and start times Orders should be created.

Use with the Daily Plan Service:

• The checkbox "Plan Order automatically" specifies that a Schedule will be applied when running the Daily Plan Service. Orders created by this step are added with a PLANNED state by the service.
• The checkbox "Submit Order to Controller when planned" specifies that any PLANNED Orders - from the current Daily Plan run or from previous runs - will be submitted to a Controller and will result in a PENDING Order state.. Submission of an Order to a Controller includes that for any Controllers to which the respective Workflow has been deployed an Order is submitted.

Daily Plan View

Explanations:

• Calendar Panel: The calendar panel offers to navigate to a specific date to display the Daily Plan.
  • The panel shows the list of Submissions, i.e. the points in time when Orders have been created for the selected date.
• Detail Panel: The detail panel displays Orders available for the selected date.
  • Filters are available to limit the list of Orders to the given order state. In addition, late Orders can be filtered to find Orders that exceeded their start time.
  • Groupings are available to display Orders per Schedule or per Workflow.

Create Daily Plan

The functionality is offered by the Daily Plan View or

Planned Orders

The planning step includes to create Orders from Schedules and to make them available with the PLANNED state. Such Orders are visible with the Daily Plan View for the given date.

Submitted Orders

The submission step includes to forward Orders to any Controllers to which the underlying Workflow has been deployed.

Delete Submissions

Daily Plan History View

The Daily Plan holds the history of submissions, i.e. the information when Orders have been submitted to Controllers and the successful/failed result of this operation.

The history of submissions is available from the History -> Daily Plan menu.

Explanations:

• This view offers to select Submissions for a range of Daily Plan dates. 
  • Consider that the Submission date is the point in time when an Order has been submitted. The Daily Plan date is the point in time that the Order is scheduled for.
  • Filtering is available for the Submission status being successful or failed.
• For each Daily Plan date a number of Submissions can be available, for example if the Daily Plan has been re-created for the respective date.
• Each Submission includes the Orders that are affected by the underlying operation. 

Daily Plan Service

The Daily Plan Service is an unattended background service that plans and submits Orders as indicated with Schedules.

Find details from the JS7 - Daily Plan Service article.