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Repeating "Schedule Source" depending on the name of the day

Hello everyone,

What I'm trying to do is I want to change the arrival times in all "Schedule Source"s in all Process Flows, depending on the day of the week. And I want to make them repeat for 52 weeks.

I'm aware that there is a number (0 to 6 for Monday to Sunday) assigned for each day of the week; at least, it shows those values under the tree view.

The current Schedule Sources would be for days 0,1,2 and 3 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Friday would have a different schedule with the same routes. The weekend has different routes and schedules, which I'll be setting up after this.

Approach 1:

So my pseudo-code thingy (sorry for the eye bleeding, this is coming from a non-coder) would be something like this:

if (Model.dateTime.dayOfWeek == "0,1,2,3")
then Schdedule (bos_uck), Schedule (uck_bos), Schedule (ksk_kon) etc happens
if (Model.dateTime.dayOfWeek == "4")
then Schdedule (bos_uck_fri), Schedule (uck_bos_fri), Schedule (ksk_kon_fri) etc happens
if (Model.dateTime.dayOfWeek == "5,6")
then Schdedule (bos_uck_we), Schedule (uck_bos_we), Schedule (ksk_kon_we) etc happens
else
Phd == "fail" :)


Approach 2:

I believe there is another very crude way of doing this, but I need help with that again. I can arrange the arrival times for each Schedule Source for a year in Excel. But I need to copy it to the "Schedule Source". I need to add them row by row in the interface, which would take quite a long time. Maybe we can set a different table for each Schedule Source and copy times from there (which I don't know how to or how to code this either)?


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You can use the Date Time Source activity and define a weekly schedule that repeats every week.

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Hi, did you check my model attached? When I implement the Date Time Source Activity for "Ferry" Process Flow it simply sends the first ferry at 07:15 and it fails to send the second ferry at 07:30. For me, it doesn't work.
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I'm not sure what you did in your model, but here's a version of your model with the BOS_UCK activity replaced with a Date Time Source activity.


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C avatar image C Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented ·

Thank you very much Matthew, I did the same thing but I must have done something wrong. However there is a problem with this approach. Ferries act wrong after around 13:00.

Without Date Time Source Activity:

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With Date Time Source Activity:

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Can you please comment on this?

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