Randomized schedule
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Randomized schedule
Presently, scheduling can be fixed to a time. It would be nice to have an additional option associated with a scheduled time, which would allow for some degree of randomization of execution centered on the scheduled time--a field to enter a time "window" (in minutes +/-) for randomizing execution.
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Marcus Tettmar
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This is actually quite easy to do with a regular schedule and two simple lines of code.
Let's say you want to run a schedule at 12:00 +/- 5 mins. Here's what you can do:
1. Modify the macro by adding these lines to the top:
Random>601,randDelay
Wait>randDelay
2. Schedule the macro to start at 11:55.
Now, what will happen is that the schedule will fire at 5 minutes to 12. The macro will then randomly decide a delay of between 0 and 600 seconds. I.e. somewhere between 0 and 10 minutes. It will wait that amount and then continue to do it's stuff.
The upshot is that you have a macro which runs sometime between 11.55 and 12.05.
Let's say you want to run a schedule at 12:00 +/- 5 mins. Here's what you can do:
1. Modify the macro by adding these lines to the top:
Random>601,randDelay
Wait>randDelay
2. Schedule the macro to start at 11:55.
Now, what will happen is that the schedule will fire at 5 minutes to 12. The macro will then randomly decide a delay of between 0 and 600 seconds. I.e. somewhere between 0 and 10 minutes. It will wait that amount and then continue to do it's stuff.
The upshot is that you have a macro which runs sometime between 11.55 and 12.05.
Marcus Tettmar
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