How to cancel an import

[Joey Wan Kenobi]

I'm running a pre import script and testing a condition at the end to determine whether or not to proceed with the import. The wiki is telling me to use

cancel = true;

as a means to stop the import. However, the import is still occurring. Am i missing something? The variable answer is logging correctly (true when between 8am and 5pm, false otherwise)

//Determine if the job should be run

var answer = false;

//Get the day of week. 1=Monday, 7=Sunday

var now = new GlideDateTime();

now.addSeconds(now.getTZOffset() / 1000);

var dow = now.getDayOfWeekLocalTime();

//Run only on weekdays

if(dow < 6 ){

  var dayStart = new GlideDateTime(now.getDate() + " 08:00:00");

  var dayEnd = new GlideDateTime(now.getDate() + " 17:00:00");

  //Running this job at 10, only during business hours and scheduling every 3 hours will only cause the job to run at 10am, 1pm and 4 pm

  if (now.compareTo(dayStart) == 1 && now.compareTo(dayEnd) == -1) {

                  answer = true;

    }

}

gs.log("Answer = " + answer + ". Day start: " + dayStart + " - Now: " + now + " - " + "dayEnd: " + dayEnd,"jc");

//if answer is still false, cancel the import... it is not the time of day that we want to import

if (!answer) {

      gs.log("Cancelling this import","jc");

      cancel = true;

}

[Harish Murikina]

ignore = true;

Can you try once by giving ignore true .

[Joey Wan Kenobi]

Harish, this in a pre import script on a scheduled import. it's not an onStart script.  

Nevertheless, i was curious so i tried it. I modified the dayEnd to 9am and tried running it at 9:25am using "ignore = true;"

Unfortunately, it did not work.

[Harish Murikina]

ok . Lets see either some one having solution to this.

[Joey Wan Kenobi]

Nevermind, while the import set was showing in the list of import sets, it actually wasnt doing the import. it truly was being cancelled by the script. i feel silly.