Job2 should start after Job1 but maximum 4 minutes later than Job1

[former_member354355]

Hello,

I want to run 5 Jobs sequentiell but not completely.

Usually the jobs are running <1 minutes each and so the chain could run with 5 steps with 1 job each.

Sometimes a job runs 30 minutes or longer. If this happens the next step should start after a runtime of previous step of 4 minutes.

How can I handle this?

A first draft was, to put all jobs in one step and insert after the first job 4 sleep-jobs with 4,8,12 and 16 minutes wait time and a counted lock=5 for all the jobs in this chain (5 working Jobs and 4 sleeping jobs).

It works but it isn't perfect. The chain is running 16minutes every day although the working jobs are running not even 5 minutes.

Best regards

Dana Ullrich

[gmblom · Accepted solution]

Hi Dana,

This is an interesting request and not so easy to implement. You could do it with events and all jobs in one step. Make the dependency between the jobs using events. And schedule System_RaiseClearEvent jobs in the same step, with the start time scheduling parameter set. These will raise the events when the other job was not finished yet after x minutes. The Raise Clear Event jobs must have a precondition that checks that the event was not raised already.

Regards Gerben