Time of Day Condition

Time of Day Condition tasks test the current time and day. Using a time and day grid, you can select blocks that correspond to time and day coordinates. Various settings can be used to change time intervals, for instance, that range from 15 minutes to 24 hours. You may choose to use days or dates, and you may also select specific weeks or months.

The Time of Day Condition differs from the process schedule in the fact that you could put this condition after generating some output, and you can also run tasks when the condition itself is false, which is not the case for a process outside of schedule.

You can choose contiguous as well as separate time blocks as required. The condition is tested True every time the current time and date corresponds to a selected time block.

Task properties

General Tab
  • Month: Select All months if you want the selected time blocks to be valid every month of the year. Select a specific month if you want the selected time blocks to be valid only on that month.
  • Week of month / by date: Select Date if you want the selected time blocks to be valid only on specific dates. Select All weeks if you want the selected time blocks to be valid every week of the month. Select a specific week of the month if you want the selected time blocks to be valid only on that week (the first, second or last week of the month, for instance).
  • Time division: Select the desired time interval. Each block in the grid corresponds to the selected time interval.
  • Invert condition result: Select to toggle the result of the condition (true becomes false and vice versa).
  • Grid: Select separate or contiguous time blocks. Click a block to toggle it on or off. Click and drag to toggle multiple blocks on or off. Click date or day at the top of the grid to toggle the whole date or day on or off. Click a time interval on the left margin of the grid to toggle the whole time interval on or off.
  • Select All: Click to toggle all the time blocks on.
  • Clear: Click to toggle all the time blocks off.
On Error Tab

For a description of the options on the On Error tab see Using the On Error tab.

Miscellaneous Tab

The Miscellaneous tab is common to all tasks.

It contains a text area (Task comments) that lets you write comments about the task. These comments are saved when the dialog is closed with the OK button and are displayed in the Task Comments Pane.

Check the option Use as step description to display the text next to the icon of the plugin in the Process area.

The tab also provides an option to highlight the task in The Process area with the default color, set in the Preferences (see General appearance preferences), or the color selected or defined under Highlight color on this tab.
To revert the selected highlight color to the default color, open this tab, turn the Highlight option off and close the dialog with the OK button; then turn highlighting back on.
Highlighting can also be turned on and off via the task's contextual menu and with the Highlight button on the View ribbon.