Send Jobs in 2-hour Intervals?

[wwstudios]

Hi all,

what would be a good way to send jobs in 2 hour intervals?

I'm trying to collect as many jobs as possible before imposing them with Griffin Auto, but I have to keep them working in the shop, so I'd like to send them at 10am, noon, 2pm and 4pm.

My first attempt was using Hold Jobs and setting a Time of Day window on the outgoing connection.

So I had 4 connections with Hold Job elements, and each one had a different time of day window set to release the jobs.

I thought this was working, until I realized that the jobs were being duplicated 4 times, as there were 4 connections.

So the same job was sitting there waiting for the next release window, at which point it would send again. Not going to work.

Then I tried just having the one Hold Job element, and I set the outgoing connection to Space Jobs Apart with 2 hour delay.

Then I set an Inject Job element to trigger at 8am, thus setting the next release time to 10am.

However, I then realized that this still will not work. Just because I set the delay does not mean there will be jobs waiting at 10am. The next job could come at 10:47am, which would push my Space Jobs Apart to delay until 12:47pm, throwing off my intervals.

Does anyone have a solid method of releasing jobs on a schedule? Thanks for any help.

[magnussandstrom]

You should be able to do this with one Hold Job element with several outgoing connections, and use "Time-of-day window" on the outgoing connections. Set the first connection to 09:59-10:00, second to 11:59-12:00 and so on. No need to use Inject Job.

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[wwstudios]

You should be able to do this with one Hold Job element with several outgoing connections, and use "Time-of-day window" on the outgoing connections. Set the first connection to 09:59-10:00, second to 11:59-12:00 and so on. No need to use Inject Job.

It works! I had the connections coming out of the folder instead of the Hold Job element, so that must be why they were quadrupling on me.

Thanks much, this is a very simple solution.