Creating a job run queue without using scheduling
I have a project that contains a set of procedures that if ran during the day with other user activity it will almost certainly bring down the resource its using. I want the users to be able to submit their job but I don't want the job to run till 6pm-6am EST (off hours). How could I do this without requiring the users to schedule their own jobs resulting in a massive amount of 1 time scheduled jobs. I want the users to be able to submit their job and EFlow will automatically manage when those jobs run based on rules that I implement based on the procedure/project and the time of day. Is it possible?
One way to achieve this would be to add a property based precondition on the first step in the procedure. Job will start but step will wait till that precondtion is met.
You can create a schedule which runs every day evening (or whenever the system load is less) and updates the property value such that precondtion is satisfied. This schedule can run again at mid night and reset the property value for jobs to be blocked the following day.
The issue with that approach is that it will "free" all the queued jobs at once.
I think @nitinp idea is valid but you may want to add some "semaphore/gate" to restrict the run to only X instances at once (there is an existing question on how to accomplish that with EC-Admin if I'm not mistaken)
