Process Chain Adhoc schedule

Dear Experts,
I have daily schedule of Process chains . At the time of month end due to offline backup or at the time patch upgradation we need to stop the schedule for that day and next day again put in schedule.
Is there any way to define custom schedule like exclude certain days.
Regards,
Manish

Hi Manish,
1)You can make the process chain to be trigered by an event.
You do so by having the Job that start the PC start after an Event.
Then you define your set of job's (thru SM37) and make sure these jobs fire the event that starts the PC.
There is an ABAP program you can use that fires events (FM -> BP_EVENT_RAISE).
2)In the Start process of your process chain, select Direct Scheduling and then click the Change Selections icon. This will bring you to the Start Time window where you can put in the Date/Time you want to start your process chain. At the bottom of this window, click on the Periodic job box and you will notice another icon way at the bottom called Period Values. Click this to determine what frequency the job should be rescheduled (ie. daily, weekly, etc.).
3)you can do this by right-clicking on the start process, selection "Maintain Variant", choose "Direct Scheduling". Next select "Change Selections", pick your date and time, set your period values and you're done.
Hope this helps.
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Regards,
Ravikanth

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https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/business-intelligence/d-f/functional%20module%20based%20generic%20datasource%20part%20i.pdf
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