Timer Connector

The timer waits for a specified time; then it returns from sleep and resumes an AssemblyLine, that is, it starts a new cycle. This Connector runs in Iterator mode only.

On attribute mapping, there is one attribute we can map into the work entry: a timestamp, which is of type java.util.Date. It will contain the time when it started the cycle.

Using Delta functionality with this Connector does probably not make much sense.

Configuration

This Connector needs the following parameters:

Month

Select a month to run the Timer Connector (* = any)

Day

Day of the month to run the Timer Connector on (* = any)

Weekday

Select a weekday to run the Timer Connector (* = any)

Hours

The hour(s) at which to run the Timer Connector (* = any). You can specify multiple values in a comma-separated list, but the values must be in ascending order.

Minutes

The minute(s) at which to run the Timer Connector. We can specify multiple values in a comma-separated list, but the values must be in ascending order.

Schedule

This is a UNIX crontab-style schedule parameter to set up when to run the Connector; when this parameter is specified it overrides all other timing parameters. The main use of this would be to specify more than one weekday to run; for example to specify that the Connector should be run at 03:45 every weekday, the schedule parameter could be set to "* * 2,3,4,5,6 3 45".

Detailed Log

If this field is checked, additional log messages are generated.

Comment

This parameter can hold any user comments. It is not taken into account during the operation of the Connector.