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awbradley
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Does anybody know if there is a way to schedule a report to run on the first Monday of every month? I can only find where you can specify the day of the month or the last day of the month.
 
Posts: 26 | Location: Little Rock, AR | Registered: October 29, 2004Report This Post
k.lane
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Not that I know of, however, you can schedule your job to run for the first 7 days of the month so that you can catch each unique occurence of the day and then in your logic, check to see if it's a Monday.

If it's not Monday, skip to a label at the end of the report so that the job does not continue.

We use something similar to this on another level. We have a front end where users can manage their jobs and they can set the status to active or inactive. In my reportcaster jobs, I just check to see if the status is active. If not, I skip over the logic and the job ends with no report distributed.

Ken
 
Posts: 177 | Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Registered: April 25, 2005Report This Post
TexasStingray
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k.lane is close you could schedule you report as is to run on the first 7 days of the month. Then have a pre-execution procedure that check to see if it is monday of not set the KILL_RPC variable to Y.
 
Posts: 865 | Registered: May 24, 2004Report This Post
susannah
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k.lane, help me understand your method, would you? how do you check the status?
Are you checking some flag or field in a file other than the Botsched file?
AW, i agree that you could check the date, something like this:
-SET &THISDAY = DOWK(&YYMD,'A3');
-SET &&KILL_RPC=IF &THISDAY NE 'MON' THEN 'Y' ELSE 'N';
..and that should kill this job's execution.
..careful with &&KILL_RPC..its a powerful variable. Its set to N by default, and a setting of Y will kill the caster job for this execution.
 
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