Frequently Asked Questions About Submit Frames

Consider the following submit frame:

Element: every minute (no time window)

Element: every hour (no time window)

Q ) What happens? Is a process using this running every minute or every hour? Does the order matter?

A ) the process would run every minute the process would be submitted for the first occurrence from the set of [1 minute or 1 hour]. As the set returned by [1 minute] is a true superset of the set returned by [1 hour], the 1 hour element can be ignored.

Consider the following submit frame:

Element: every minute (no time window)

Element: every hour during time window System_Week_Friday

Q ) What happens on Friday? Is a process using this running every minute or every hour on Friday?

A ) the process would run every minute again the [1 minute] set also contains every occurrence of [1 hour on Fridays]. The 1 hour on Fridays element can be ignored.

Consider the following submit frame:

Element: every minute (no time window)

Element: every hour during time window System_Week_Friday

Element: every 30 minutes (no time window)

Q ) What happens on Tuesday? Is a process using this running every minute or every 30 minutes?

A ) The process would run every minute the [1 minute] set contains ever occurrence of [1 hour on Fridays] and [30 minutes]. Both these elements can be ignored

Consider the following submit frame:

Element: every minute during time window System_Week_Friday

Element: every hour during time window System_Week_WorkDays

Element: every 30 minutes (no time window)

Q ) What happens on Friday? Is a process using this running every minute, every hour or every 30 minutes?

Q ) What happens on Tuesday? Is a process using this running every hour or every 30 minutes?

A ) On Fridays the process would run every minute. The every hour element is made obsolete by the 30 minute element. But on Fridays, the process would run every minute.