An Order passing a Cycle Instruction should consider all periods

Current Situation

• A Cycle Instruction includes two periods.
  • Period 1: start time at 18:00 for 1 hour with a ticking cycle of 2 minutes.
  • Period 2: start time at 19:05 for 1 hour with a ticking cycle of 2 minutes.
• An order enters the Cycle Instruction before Period 1 on the same day.
  • The cycle starts when the start time of Period 1 is reached . The order runs in cycles as configured by the Cycle Instruction.
  • The order performs its last cycle at the end of Period 1 and leaves the Cycle Instruction. The order does not wait and enter Period 2 or any later periods.
  • Similar behavior applies to any number of periods of a Cycle Instruction: the order will leave the Cycle Instruction having completed the cycles of the period at which it entered the Cycle Instruction. This is not the desired behavior.
• Find attached examples of the JOC Cockpit's pdCyclePeriods.workflow.json and the Controller's pdCyclePeriods.controller.workflow.json .

Desired Behavior

• Users expect an order to run cycles for all remaining periods of the current day in a Cycle Instruction.
• In the above example the order will be executed for Period 1 and Period 2.
• It is an option for the Cycle Instruction to make an order pass the next period only, see JS-2079.

Workaround

• Users can schedule two orders. One order with a start time earlier than the start time of Period 1 and one order with a start time later than the end of Period 1 and earlier than the start time of Period 2.