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Allow timings to specify start time

Ross Currie 14 years ago • updated by anonymous 9 years ago • 6

Identity Broker timings allows us to specify how often a particular operation runs... however (to my knowledge) it does not allow us to specify when to commence the timer for that timing. By default, timings start from the time the service starts.

For example, we can set a connector to perform a full import every 24 hours... but we cannot set the connector to import every 24 hours AT MIDNIGHT.

The ability to specify a start time for operations in Identity Broker (and also Event Broker 3) would be beneficial, as clients often ask us to schedule operations for out-of-hours.

Patrick Johannessen 14 years ago

Ross,

Is the Daily timing not appropriate for what you're doing?

https://unifysolutions.jira.com/wiki/display/IDB305/Daily+timing

Adam van Vliet 14 years ago

The other timings offer an offset, whereas the the recurring timing does not.
It would be helpful to have this offset in cases such as a timing that should run every 3 hours.
Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks.

Matthew Clark 14 years ago

I agree with Adam above, although I had forgotten about the Hourly timing that we also had

Matthew Clark 14 years ago

This would be added as follows, please suggest alternatives if the following is not suitable:

<timing name="RecurringTimespanStandardTime" StartFrom="2011-01-22T18:00:00">
<timespan value="13:00"/>
</timing>

This would mean timing would repeat every 13 hours starting on the 22/1/2011 at 6pm.

Matthew Clark 14 years ago

This has been implemented for Event Broker, and is awaiting incorporation in a future release of Identity Broker

Patrick Johannessen 13 years ago

Updated fix version.

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