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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 26, 2024

Allow for wildcards on time arguments in conman commands (or more commands)

Our company uses conman commands regularly in our automation to perform many tasks that we would otherwise do manually.  As often as possible, we use variables or wild cards so that hard-coding isn't needed.  In some cases, that is now allowed.  One example is for the (hhmm) argument in the "cancel sched" command.  With the (hhmm [date]) argument, we are able to use $UNISON_SCHED_DATE to get today's date, but we cannot find a way to use a variable for the time.  Specifically if we don't care what time the schedtime really is.  We would love to fill that portion in with (* $UNISION_SCHED_DATE).  This would allow for us to cancel all streams that fit our listed parameters for the current date, regardless of when it is scheduled, but leave all older streams available.

Our specific use case withstanding, it would be nice to be able to use a wildcard or variable in the TIME slot of this argument.

Idea priority Low