Scheduling a process chain running in a specific hour

hi,
Is there any other way to schedule the process chain to run in a specific time besides using different meta chains to call the main process chain to do the loads separately.
Can we do this by using one main process chain?
for example, this is performed daily (hourly load: 4am load, 9am till 9pm load).
willie

Hi,
<b>Process Chains</b>:
From 3.x onwords to automate loads as well as process like Openhub,ababp
programs or activations or etc., We are using this process chains.
Coming to the major advantage
Like eariler infopakge groups if any pak fails we need to trigger all the loads
manully .wher as in Pchaing just correct that particular ipak and repaeat from that
particular process .it will take care abt remaing subsequent chain .
And also we can trigger parallel loads as well in this. Its much user friendly in monitoring.
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.
You can Schedule process chain in background 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 it helps.
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Thanks,
Amith

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