Stopping a Scheduled Process at a Certain Time

Question

I am working on a process model and it needs to stop at a certain time (For example 2PM CST) 
 However, I don't see any option to do it. I've tried working on the advance options but it seems like that doesn't satisfy it as well. 
 This was the condition that I put in Advance Options 
 now() < local(fn!todate(today()), timezoneid()) + 30/24

Any suggestion is welcome.

Peter Lewis · Answer

I don't think the advanced options are going to help you in this case. For context, the expression in that condition gets evaluated once: it doesn't keep evaluating until the current date and time is greater than what you provided. 
 Instead, I'd suggest just putting that condition into the scheduled delay section: 
 
 Also keep in mind that there isn't really a "stop" option in a process, so you would likely create a parallel flow that goes to this timer. Then, when the timer is triggered, it should go straight to a terminate end node to stop the process.

Dave Lewis · Answer

It seems like a terrible idea to stop a process before it's complete. However, if that's what you intend to do, you could set up a second start node to activate a set amount of time after the first start node is scheduled to go off. For instance, start 1 scheduled to go off at 1 PM, start 2 scheduled to go off at 2 PM. Then you can have the secondary process flow go through whatever tasks you want before winding up on a Terminate End node. That will kill the process in the middle of whatever it was doing. 
 You could also start the process normally then first node it hits is an AND gateway. Have the secondary flow from that AND gateway stop at a Timer event. You can set the Timer event to run for an Hour, exactly 55 minutes, whatever you want, then send that end of the flow to a Terminate. It will kill whatever was going on with the other thread. 
 Again, highly recommended that is NOT how you do this, but if you really want to know that's how I would do it.

Dave Lewis · Answer

Oh! When do processes start? You could literally just create a list of times that the process would start including every half hour interval in which you would like the process to start. 
 Or you could do if (now() < 2 PM, if now() minutes = 30, run, don't run, don't run)

Dave Lewis · Answer

Every half hour, check to see if your time is before 2 PM and after whatever time the processes start in the morning, only run if the condition you check every half hour returns true.

Stopping a Scheduled Process at a Certain Time

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