Re: Concurrent Schedules

[donalson]

Thanks for the response, it is not the first (or even third) time this has
happened since this code was put into Swarm in the mid-beta time.  I have to
say that it was one of the tougher to find though. :-)

Is there an ETA on the update?

Vladimir Jojic wrote:

> Doug,
>
> Thanks for pointing this out. Problem was the way Randomized execution
> order in Schedule was implemented: ConcurrentGroups would inherit default
> order from schedules in which they are created. This way user did not have
> to go through customization of ConcurrentGroup and then setting the type
> of the concurrent group in Schedule, instead they would just call
> setDefaultOrder on the Schedule.
>
> In turn this approach prevented user from setting their own customized
> concurrent groups as concurrent group types in schedules (like you tried
> with concurrent schedule) ...
>
> This is fixed now and in fact it is required that users create customized
> ConcurrentGroups that have Randomized execution order and set them as
> Concurrent Group type in Schedules in which that they want to have
> concurrent actions performed in random order.
>
> Regards,
> Vladimir
>
> PS. The empty schedule problem that Geoffrey pointed out is also fixed.
> Thanks Geoffrey!
>
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