Hourly scheduling

In hourly scheduling, you can specify the pattern of schedules recurring from one to every several hours. The start time and end time need to be on the same day for hourly scheduling to take effect.

Example

You want data to be collected from a point twice a day, starting at 5:00 AM. You want the operator to have enough time, 5 hours, to collect the data. Specify the collection scheduling fields for the group as follows:

• Recurrence pattern: hourly

• Starts from: 5:00:00 AM

• Ends on: 10:00:00 AM

• Every: 12 hours

With these settings, the group of tags is due for collection any time between 5:00 AM – 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM.

Scenario 1

The operator starts a tour run at 8:00 AM. The "due" icon is displayed for the group and each tag within the group, meaning data needs to be collected.

Scenario 2

The operator starts a tour outside the window, 1:00 PM, for example, then the group is not due for collection and shows the "collected" icon for the group, and the "not due" icon on the desktop and on the mobile device, for each tag.