How to create a scheduler

Ignition
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Hi,

Is there a way to create a scheduler in Ignition,
where a user can specify which day and time in a week an action to be executed.

Thank you.

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Yes, in your project designer navigate Scripting → Gateway Events → Scheduled

Gateway Event Scripts - Ignition User Manual 8.1 - Ignition Documentation (inductiveautomation.com)

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Cool. and Thanks.

I will explore this.

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Is there is no way to parametrize the hours? What I want to do is to create a project in which the final user can use a GUI to select the week schedule for some gates to open and close but using the scheduled events you can't bind the settings to tags or variables

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  1. How many "open" periods per day? Note that if they cross midnight you'll probably need two - one to cover up to midnight and the other to start at midnight.
  2. How will you handle holidays, etc., or one-off schedules?

I'm thinking that you would set up an array with,
Day of week INT (0 = Monday, ... 7 = Sunday)
On time DateTime or String?
Off time DateTime or String?

Then you could run a scheduled task script every minute to check if you are in any of the "open" periods and set a tag appropriately.

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