Time dependant message collecting in a bpm

I have a bpm setup to collect messages. I want to collect messages until a specific time daily (eg. 18h00 everyday) and then send them.
I have used the BpmPatternCollectTime pattern but cannot specify a daily time. Does anyone have suggestions on how to accomplish this.
Ta.
Rodney

Hi Rodney,
We also had this same design implemented. But the BPM is not flexible enough to provide the get the current date and collect till a particular time.
One another way will be to use the design BpmPatternCollectMessage and send in a stop proxy message using a ABAP proxy message triggered from the ABAP stack at 18:00hrs every day so that the collection process will end and will send the data to the target system.
Cheers
JK
PS: Award points if this helps you

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Hi Kfir.
As I understand your requirement, you want to combine two messages into one.
If both of the messages have the same structure, then, in BPM, you can use a while loop which contains the receive step followed by the container step into which the messages will be collected. You can use "APPEND" option in the container step. After the while loop, use a transformation step and then followed by the send step.
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Hi Abhishek/ Raj
Thanks!!
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DATA: FLAG,
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'0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ`~!@#$%^&*()-_=+ ' &
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Birgit,
Some other things to consider:
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TYPES: BEGIN OF type4.
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6) Do the Master data upload to Cost center and active the master data of it always before uploading the data to cube.
7) Do the uploading to cube from Sratch.
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Anil Kumar Sharma .P
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