Schedule jobs for consolidation tasks with dynamic period

[ArnoldWarhonowicz]

Is is possible to use the schedule for consolidations tasks app to release data each month for the current month? We are looking to create a recurring job that release data from universal journal on the 5th day of each month for the previous month. However, when setting the parameters we still have to set a month, see yellow marker.

What I would be looking for is a an option to say that the data should be release for the previous month. So when the job is executed in February, it should release data for Jan of the current year. Is that possible?

And what does the option highlighted in blue do?

Thanks,
Arnold

[tanja_gliege]

Hi Arnold,

There is an option to do this in the GUI version, by utilising the programmes behind each monitor task by either utilising  dynamic variables in the variant or creating "T" variables in table TVARV that allow you to set the period to what you need. 

You can then have a manual business process of changing the period in that TVARV variable or automate it by writing a short programme to determine and write the previous month's period into the TVARV table against your variable based on system date. This job is then scheduled to update the variable as you see fit.

This way you can create a job plan linking all the programmes of the tasks and executing them in sequence.

To find out what the task programmes are just execute each task in the Data or cons monitor in the background, go to sm37 and look ate the job steps.

Voila : ) I hope this helped : )

Tanja