.. _cron_repeat_day_1_repeat_date:

Cron, Repeat Day 1, Repeat Date
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Attributes Cron, Repeat Day and repeat date can be used to get a suite running in real time mode.


Cron
====

The common use of :term:`cron` is to repeat "house cleaning" tasks.

Since cron gets the task requeued as soon as it completes, no trigger can be defined based on such task.
To circumvent this, a cron task typically retrieves the day and time of execution, and updates a variable
used in a trigger by an external family.

The following example shows the task :code:`/admin/times` *remembering* the execution time
(by updating variables :code:`LAST_YMD` and :code:`LAST_HMS`),
so that the task :code:`/mofc/thu/01/ref` can define a trigger, avoiding direct cron dependency.


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   .. code-block:: shell
      :caption: Admin suite definition

      node=/%SUITE%/%FAMILY%/%TASK%
      %nopp
      ecflow_client --alter change variable LAST_YMD "$(date +%Y%m%d)" $node
      ecflow_client --alter change variable LAST_HMS "$(date +%H%M%S)" $node
      %end

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Repeat Day 1
============

A **repeat day 1** attribute is used in a few suites, to progress each day.

When using this attribute, the day is incremented once all tasks are complete.
In practice, this means there must be a task with a time attribute that ensure
the suite does not loop before a given time.
This also means that an aborted task, potentially causing others families/tasks to
remain queued, prevents the entire suite from moving forward to the next day.

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   .. code-block:: shell
      :caption: repeat day 1

      suite mars
      repeat day 1
      family last
         task logfiles
            time 16:00
         task date
            complete ../stage eq complete and ../check eq complete and ../sapp eq complete and ../statistics eq complete
            edit ECF_TRIES '1'
            time 16:00
      endfamily
      # ...

Repeat Date
===========

A **repeat date** attribute is frequently used to implement day iteration.

As this repeat is incremented once **all** families/tasks below are complete,
a task with a time attribute will prevent the increment before a given time.

This is considered the most convenient to run a suite in **real-time mode** or **catchup-mode**.
When in **catchup-mode**, the **defstatus complete attribute** inhibits the time dependency.

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   .. code-block:: shell
      :caption: repeat date

      family main
      repeat date YMD 20151118 20201212 1
      family ref
         task dummy
            # defstatus complete # uncomment to shift to catchup-mode
            time 12:10
      # ...