Execute detour based on condition

[neilgallen]

Short question but I haven't seen a great solution anywhere in the world.

I have a workflow that runs daily with no issues. This gets manually executed daily around 9 AM EST. 

Once a month we need to execute this workflow at approximately midnight. There are portions of the workflow that do not need to be run, however and for runtime I'd like to avoid those sections.

I'm thinking a detour would be the best route for this, but I'm unsure of the mechanics to execute it based on the system clock. 

Any suggestions or reference materials are welcome.

[neilgallen]

Short question but I haven't seen a great solution anywhere in the world.

I have a workflow that runs daily with no issues. This gets manually executed daily around 9 AM EST. 

Once a month we need to execute this workflow at approximately midnight. There are portions of the workflow that do not need to be run, however and for runtime I'd like to avoid those sections.

I'm thinking a detour would be the best route for this, but I'm unsure of the mechanics to execute it based on the system clock. 

Any suggestions or reference materials are welcome.

[Jonathan-Sherman]

Hi @neilgallen,

Could you not use a filter tool with the DateTimeStart() function? Use the true output anchor as the stream to include the process and the false to exclude the process rather than using a detour tool?

If this solves your issue please mark the answer as correct, if not let me know!

Regards,

Jonathan

[neilgallen]

Could, however I want to completely avoid doing any data input if possible.

That's [one of] the most significant time consuming portions of the workflow and ideally I don't want to even waste the time inputting data that I'm not going to process.

[Jonathan-Sherman · Accepted solution]

If you used the filter tool could you not combine it with a dynamic input tool so you're only loading the data in for the true output anchor?

Regards,

Jonathan

[neilgallen]

had not considered playing this with a dynamic input...that's a winner. Will need a bit of testing but I think that's the play.