TriggerSchedules are special-purpose schedules, providing scheduling control for either linked actions or topics of other components. Figure 343 shows a simple example of a TriggerSchedule linked to an action slot of a DiscreteTotalizerExt, which was “composited” in the parent BooleanWritable.

This schedule is configured to simply fire once at midnight on the first day of every month. The trigger at the “ResetElapsedActiveTime” slot zeroes the runtime accumulated from the previous month.

The following sections provide more TriggerSchedule details: