So if I have Job A that is scheduled to run at 3PM and Job B that is scheduled to run at 5PM. Lets say Job A is still running at 5PM but Job B needs Job A to be finished before running.

How do I make sure Job B does not start and waits for job A to finish then kick off?

The preferable approach would be to run B when A has completed. EIther through VisualCron Trigger in B or Job/Task control in A. Alternatively, but more error prone, you could create a Trigger dependency with Time Trigger in B and a VisualCron Trigger in B (on Job a completion).

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What if we have ten jobs that all have one time trigger. Each job is set to run MTWTF but at a different hour. So for example, Job 1 is setup to run MTWTF at 7AM and job 2 is set to run at 8AM and job 3 is set to run at 9AM and so on. We want these jobs to wait on each other if one is still running when another is scheduled to start. So Job 1 is still running at 8AM when job 2 is scheduled to start. We want job 2 to wait and start as soon as job 1 has completed and so on.

How would this be possible?

Can anyone help?

Perhaps you could use a variable as a semaphore?

Perhaps you could use a variable as a semaphore?

Can you provide an example of how? We are newbies with VisualCron.

Do you know how to use Variables in Visual Cron?

Do you know how to use Variables in Visual Cron?

No. I haven't learned about variables yet. Is there a good place to start?

http://www.visualcron.com/doc/HTML/variables.html 

Look at the video tutorials as well for Variables: http://www.visualcron.com/tutorials.aspx 

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I read the documentation and watched the videos. I could still use a little help. How would you use variables to accomplish the scenarios in post 3 and is that BEST way to set it up?

Can anyone provide a quick example that I could setup on our test server?

I think you should test the Trigger depedency first on two Jobs.

So you have Job A.
Then on Job B you create two Triggers:
- VisualCron Trigger type to watch for completion of Job A
- Time Trigger at the time you want to run

Select both Triggers and create a dependency.

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