Weekly run cycle example

The weekly group GPAYW runs on Thursday. Include the negative run cycle if you want to omit the GPAYW applications on the day that the monthly GPAYM group runs.

Type = NORMAL     Period = WEEK      Offset = 4
Free-day rule = 1  Input arrival = 17.00 Deadline = 01 06.00
Description = Run Thursday or day before if Thursday is free
 
Type = NEGATIVE   Period = FIRSTTHU  Offset = 14
Free-day rule = 1  Input arrival = 17.00 Deadline = 01 06.00
Description = Exclude third Thursday of the month

The monthly group GPAYM runs on the third Thursday of the month. If you already have a monthly period with an origin date of the first of each month, you can specify a series of offsets and a negative run cycle to avoid the need for a separate period. For example, you could specify a normal run cycle MONTH with offsets 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 with a negative run cycle of WEEK with offsets 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7. The normal run cycle is selecting all days in the third week of the month, and the negative run cycle excludes all of those occurrences except the one generated for the third Thursday. This is a correct, if tedious, way of creating run cycles; however, these run cycles cannot reschedule the application to any other day because the negative run cycle always cancels the generated occurrence.