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Miscellaneous

Property

Description

.Timer

Definition of the time or the repetition interval for an action to be performed

The following variants are allowed in syntax:

  • HH:MM: single time (e.g., 12:00)

  • N[s|m|h]: repeated execution every N time units with one of the following units:

    • s: seconds (default value) (e.g., 30s)

    • m: minutes

    • h: hours

  • N[s|m|h],HH:MM-HH:MM: repeated execution within a certain period of time (e.g., 30s,08:00-20:00)

  • ...,WW,WW,...: restriction of a time specification to certain weekdays (mo, tu, we, th, fr, sa, su, e.g., 12:00,sa,su)

  • ...,WW-WW: restriction of a time specification to a range of weekdays (e.g.; 12:00,mo-fr)

  • ...,[start|end]: definition determining whether for repetition intervals the next repetition is calculated from the start time or from the end time (default value) of the previous execution of an action

Multiple times can be combined in the above syntax using the pipe character (|), e.g., 08:00|12:00|16:00).

.***Period

Definition of a time span

The following variants are allowed in syntax:

  • HH:MM-HH:MM: time span (e.g., 08:00-12:00)

  • ...,WW,WW,...: restriction of the time span to certain weekdays (mo, tu, we, th, fr, sa, su, e.g., 08:00-12:00,sa,su)

  • ...,WW-WW: restriction of the time span to a range of weekdays (e.g., 08:00-12:00,mo-fr)

Multiple time spans can be combined in the above syntax using pipe characters (|, e.g., 08:00-12:00|16:00-20:00).

.***Age

.***Delay

Definition of the (minimum) age of an object or a waiting period

The value consists of a number, optionally followed by a time unit (e.g., 30m for 30 minutes).

  • d: days

  • h: hours

  • m: minutes

  • s: seconds (default value)

.***Encoding

Definition of a character encoding used or to be used for input data or output data:

  • Ascii

  • Ansi

  • Utf8

  • Utf16

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