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Wed May 09, 2012 4:22 pm
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nsheldon
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Exactly. I opted for creating an Action Group instead of a Schedule (timed action) because many energy companies have variable billing cycles (some cycles with 29 days, some with 30, some with 31, all depending on the month and the customer's billing group). So you'd need to create your own schedule, then just execute the "eTrack - Reset" Action Group as the action taken by the scheduled task.
Just to be clear, running the "eTrack - Reset" Action Group or the "eTrack - Reset All" Action Group doesn't recalculate anything, it just changes all the values to zero. If costs change (e.g. your cost per kWh or cost per Therm) in the middle of the billing cycle (also a common situation), simply change the corresponding eTrack variable (eTrackCostPerKWH or eTrackCostPerTherm) to the new rate. It won't recalculate existing values, but will calculate all new energy usage with the new rates, adding them to the respective Grand Total variables.