Creating a Business Process Schedule

About this task

You can schedule a business process to run or you can choose to run the business process manually. If you schedule your business process, you can take advantage of the following advanced scheduling capabilities:

Schedule your business process to run on specific days of the week – Schedule different processes to run on different days, reserving system resources and scheduling business processes around the critical events of your organization. For example, you can run the business process only on Monday through Friday, or Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. This includes the ability to schedule the system resource intensive business processes to run on weekends when network or system traffic is low.
Schedule your business process to run based on specifically selected hours – Much like the ability to run on the weekends or specific days of the week; provides further granularity in scheduling your business processes by selecting specific hours or ranges of hours range of hours to run.
Schedule exclusions – You can set exceptions within the scheduler to exclude peak days or processing hours.

To set up a business process schedule:

Procedure

From the Administration Menu, select Deployment > Schedules.
Next to Schedule a Business Process, click Go!
In the Select BP page, select the business process for which you want to set up the scheduled run time from the Business Process field, and then click Next.
In the Schedule Settings page, indicate whether to use a 24-hour clock display (that is, Military time numbers 24 hours of the day from 1 to 24, rather than repeating the cycle of 12 hours twice).
To specify how you want to schedule your business process to run, complete one of the following steps, and then click Next:
- To set a timer to for running your business process, select Run based on timer.
- To schedule your business process to run on a daily basis, select Run daily.
- To schedule your business process to run on specific weekdays, select Run based on day(s) of the week.
- To schedule your business process to run on specific days during the month, select Run based on day(s) of the month.
Based on the selections you made in step 5., complete one of the following steps:
1. If you are setting up a timer:
  1. In the Hour(s) field, type the number of hours in which the business process should run (for example, if you want the business process to run every 2 hours, type 2).
  2. In the Min(s) field, type the number of minutes in which the business process should run (for example, if you want the business process to run every 30 minutes, type 30. However, if you specified 2 in the Hour(s) field and specified 30 in the Min(s) field, the business process runs every 2.5 hours.).
2. If you are running the business process daily, based on days of the week, or days of the months, and using a timer:
  1. To specify a time interval, select Check here to select time interval.
  2. In the From and To fields, type the time to start and end the interval.
  3. In the Select Day(s) field, select the number of days in between intervals. This field is only available if you choose Run based on day(s) of the week or month.
  4. From Every, Hour(s), and Min(s) lists, select how long the interval lasts.
  5. Click add to specify the scheduled time you run the business process.
3. If you are not using a time interval:
  1. In the From field, type the time to start and end the interval.
  2. In the Select Day(s) field, select the number of days in between intervals.
  3. From Every, Hour(s), and Min(s) lists, select how long the interval lasts.
  4. Click add to specify the scheduled time you run the business process.
To run the business process at startup, next to the scheduling interval you selected in step 4, ensure that the At startup check box is selected, and then click Next.
To indicate exclusion dates that business process should not run, complete the following steps:
1. In the Months field, select the month not to run the business process.
2. In the Days field, select the day of the month in which not to run the business process.
3. Click add to specify the exclusion dates for the schedule, and then click Next.
Click Finish to add the schedule for the business process to Sterling B2B Integrator.