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Gateway script type triggered at specific time.
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OBrienTimM
A new gateway script type which allows a script to be triggered at a given time(s). This is a common need for projects, but is not as straight-forward and reliable to implement manually as it seems. A built-in function would make this process more accessible to new users.
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gbogard
this would be a nice feature for us too.
Greg Bogard
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Kyle Pierce
This seems to be on old idea, but it's a good one.
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Paul Griffith
Merged in a post:
Add scheduled triggering of custom actions/events
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nick.minchin
Most other SCADA packages allow you to schedule custom actions (events) to occur periodically (after x hours, at a specific time of day, on day or days, 1st of month, specific weekdays, etc. etc.).
For example, I would like to execute a script every four hours starting at midnight, every day. I'd also like to execute a script every 1st of the month at midnight. This can be done using gateway Timer scripts that execute every minute and manually checking for the right date/time conditions, or getting your head around using java's Timer or ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor functions, but these seem more like a workaround rather than a proper solution..
It would be great if we could just create a new 'Scheduled Event' in Ignition, configure a crontab style execution plan, and add the actions we want to execute.
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Paul Griffith
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We have this on the roadmap.
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Lynn.Martineau
Not just new users - anyone who needs scheduled events (most of us). CountDown/countUp scripts and expressions carry more work load and maintenance than a cron type trigger.
Robert McKenzie
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ajdewhirst
Definitely needs adding.
lionel MAZEYRAT
Yes, script scheduled by a cron table
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Phil Turmel
I like this idea. It would be great if a timer event could have a "Cron" Delay Type, where the Delay (ms) entry field changes to a "Schedule" string.
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kyle.chase@kymerasystems.com
You can do this easily using expression tags already? You do not need timer scripts or any executors.
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