Schedule for the fifth instance of a week date

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
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    • You can select a date that computes to the fifth instance of a weekday for a date near the end of a month for a repeating monthly schedule,

    About this task

    Three options are available for handling months that do not have a matching Fifth instance of the selected day.
    • Last: Selects the last instance of the weekday in the month.
    • Next: Selects the first instance of the weekday in the next month.
    • Strict: Skips any month without a matching Fifth instance and selects only months that have a matching Fifth instance.
    Use the glide.schedules.fifth system property to control how a schedule entry that selects the fifth occurrence of a weekday behaves in months containing only four occurrences of that day.
    • Use of this property is only valid when the glide.schedules.repeat_nth property is set to Day.
    • The following example illustrates computing what day of the month a schedule repeats on when the schedule starts on the Fifth instance of a weekday in the month.

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to sys_properties.list.
    2. Open the glide.schedules.fifth property.
    3. Verify that the Value is set to last.
    4. Navigate to System Scheduler > Schedules > Schedules, define a new schedule, and click Submit.
    5. Open the new schedule and in the Schedule Entries related list, create a new entry with the following parameters:
      • When: November 29, 2012 at 10:00 to November 29, 2012 at 11:00
      • Repeats: Monthly
      • Monthly type: Day of the Week
      • Starting: November 29
        Note:
        In this example, November 29 is the fifth Thursday in the month.
    6. Click Submit.
    7. Open the same schedule entry.
      Note:
      The message Every month on the Fifth Thu appears on the form.
      The schedule for the first three months is computed as:
      • November 29, 2012 (Fifth Thursday of the month)
      • December 27, 2012 (Last Thursday of the month)
      • January 31, 2013 (Fifth Thursday of the month)
    8. If you set the Value on the glide.schedules.fifth property to next instead of last in step 3, the schedule for the first three months is computed as:
      • November 29, 2012 (Fifth Thursday of the month)
      • January 3, 2012 (First Thursday of the next month since December 2012 does not have five Thursdays)
      • January 31, 2013 (Fifth Thursday of the month)
    9. If the Value on the glide.schedules.fifth property is set to strict instead of last in step 3, the schedule for the first three months is computed as:
      • November 29, 2012 (Fifth Thursday of the month)
      • No meeting (December 2012 skipped because it does not have five Thursdays)
      • January 31, 2013 (Fifth Thursday of the month)