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The Schedule gate blocks stage execution until the current date/time evaluates to the given cron expression, or the configured FlexDeploy group overrides to continue.

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Field

Description

Gate Name

The name of the gate.

Description

An optional description for the gate.

Schedule Cron Expression

The

FlexDeploy group which is responsible for approving or rejecting the task associated with this gate

Cron Expression to use for setting up the schedule.  Sample cron expressions are provided in the

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Cron Expressions entered are descriptively parsed if valid

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Starting in the 4.6 release, multiple

Multiple Cron Expressions can be specified using semicolon as a

delimeter

A new Admin Screen was added to test expressions in the Administration Menu on the Admin Operations Screen.

Schedule Override Group

The pipeline role which is allowed to continue execution prior to the gate completing on the configured schedule.  Default role members are

delimiter. For example, 

0 0 11 ? * *;0 0 12 ? * *

is equivalent to

0 0 11-12 ? * *

This allows for Cron Expressions that are scheduled to run on the 2nd and 4th Friday which is not normally possible with Quartz Cron.

A new Admin Screen was added to test expressions in the Administration Menu on the Admin Operations Screen.

For details on Cron Expression Syntax see http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-2.2.2/tutorials/crontrigger.html#crontrigger-tutorial

Schedule Override Role

The pipeline role that has privileges to override the gate if required.  Optionally, use a Groovy expression to make this field dynamic based on some contextual value (e.g. a property defined on the pipeline, and

optional overridden for each release.

specified on the release).

When using a role script you can dynamically return a key/value pair. For example return [type: 'groupName', value: 'FD Administrators']. Supported types are roleId, roleName, groupId, and groupName. You can return Map with single key/value pair or list of such single key/value maps.

If not specified, only a FlexDeploy Administrator can approve or reject the gate.

Precondition

An optional Groovy script which determines whether the gate or step is applicable during execution. The script has access to variables and methods listed in Pipeline Groovy Variables and Methods. You can find these variables and methods

using Variable Lookup help

while using the Groovy Editor.

The script must return true if the gate is applicable, or false otherwise.  If no script is provided, the default is to return true (applicable)

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