diff --git a/animatediff/nodes_scheduling.py b/animatediff/nodes_scheduling.py
index 1a8d76b..fd62a5c 100644
--- a/animatediff/nodes_scheduling.py
+++ b/animatediff/nodes_scheduling.py
@@ -9,14 +9,17 @@ class PromptSchedulingLatentsNode:
             "required": {
                 "prompts": ("STRING", {"multiline": True, "default": ""}),
                 "latent": ("LATENT",),
-            }
+            },
+            "optional": {
+                "print_schedule": ("BOOLEAN", {"default": False}),
+            },
         }
     
     RETURN_TYPES = ("LATENT",)
     CATEGORY = "Animate Diff 🎭🅐🅓/scheduling"
     FUNCTION = "create_schedule"
 
-    def create_schedule(self, prompts: str, latent: dict):
+    def create_schedule(self, prompts: str, latent: dict, print_schedule=False):
         evaluate_prompt_schedule(prompts, latent["samples"].size(0))
         return (latent)
 
@@ -30,7 +33,7 @@ class ValueSchedulingLatentsNode:
                 "latent": ("LATENT",),
             },
             "optional": {
-                "print_values": ("BOOLEAN", {"default": False}),
+                "print_schedule": ("BOOLEAN", {"default": False}),
             },
         }
     
@@ -38,10 +41,10 @@ class ValueSchedulingLatentsNode:
     CATEGORY = "Animate Diff 🎭🅐🅓/scheduling"
     FUNCTION = "create_schedule"
 
-    def create_schedule(self, values: str, latent: dict, print_values=False):
+    def create_schedule(self, values: str, latent: dict, print_schedule=False):
         float_vals = evaluate_value_schedule(values, latent["samples"].size(0))
         int_vals = [round(x) for x in float_vals]
-        if print_values:
+        if print_schedule:
             for i, val in enumerate(float_vals):
                 logger.info(f"ValueScheduling: {i} = {val}")
         return (float_vals, float_vals, int_vals, int_vals)
@@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ class ValueSchedulingNode:
                 "max_length": ("INT", {"default": 0, "min": 0, "max": BIGMAX, "step": 1}),
             },
             "optional": {
-                "print_values": ("BOOLEAN", {"default": False}),
+                "print_schedule": ("BOOLEAN", {"default": False}),
             },
         }
 
@@ -64,10 +67,10 @@ class ValueSchedulingNode:
     CATEGORY = "Animate Diff 🎭🅐🅓/scheduling"
     FUNCTION = "create_schedule"
 
-    def create_schedule(self, values: str, max_length: int, print_values=False):
+    def create_schedule(self, values: str, max_length: int, print_schedule=False):
         float_vals = evaluate_value_schedule(values, max_length)
         int_vals = [round(x) for x in float_vals]
-        if print_values:
+        if print_schedule:
             for i, val in enumerate(float_vals):
                 logger.info(f"ValueScheduling: {i} = {val}")
         return (float_vals, float_vals, int_vals, int_vals)
diff --git a/animatediff/scheduling.py b/animatediff/scheduling.py
index e6bb9f0..08366e1 100644
--- a/animatediff/scheduling.py
+++ b/animatediff/scheduling.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import re
 import math
+from typing import Union
 from collections import namedtuple
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 
@@ -65,9 +66,8 @@ class RegexErrorReport:
 
 def evaluate_prompt_schedule(text: str, length: int):
     text = strip_input(text)
-    # TODO: handle case of no text provided
     if len(text) == 0:
-        pass
+        raise Exception("No text provided to Prompt Scheduling.")
     # prioritize formats based on best guess to minimize redo's
     if text.startswith('"'):
         formats = [SFormat.JSON, SFormat.PYTH]
@@ -114,8 +114,25 @@ def evaluate_prompt_schedule(text: str, length: int):
     error_msg = "\n".join(error_msg_list)
     raise Exception(error_msg)
 
+
 def parse_prompt_groups(groups: tuple, length: int):
-    pass
+    pairs: list[InputPair]
+    errors: list[ParseErrorReport]
+    # perform first parse, to get idea of indexes to handle
+    pairs, errors = handle_group_idxs(groups, length)
+    if len(errors) == 0:
+        # do next step
+        raise Exception("Looks good.")
+    if len(errors) > 0:
+        error_msg_list = []
+        issues_formatted = f"{len(errors)} issue{'s' if len(errors)> 1 else ''}"
+        error_msg_list.append(f"Found {issues_formatted} with idxs:")
+        for error in errors:
+            error_msg_list.append(f"{error.idx_str}: {error.reason}")
+        error_msg = "\n".join(error_msg_list)
+        raise Exception(error_msg)
+    final_vals = []
+    return final_vals
 
 
 def evaluate_value_schedule(text: str, length: int):
@@ -173,20 +190,6 @@ def evaluate_value_schedule(text: str, length: int):
     raise Exception(error_msg)
 
 
-@dataclass
-class InputPair:
-    idx: int
-    val: int
-    hold: bool = False
-    end: bool = False
-
-@dataclass
-class ParseErrorReport:
-    idx_str: str
-    val_str: str
-    reason: str
-
-
 def parse_value_groups(groups: tuple, length: int):
     #logger.info(groups)
     pairs: list[InputPair]
@@ -224,6 +227,20 @@ def handle_float_vals(groups: list[tuple]):
     return actual_pairs, errors
 
 
+@dataclass
+class InputPair:
+    idx: int
+    val: Union[int, str]
+    hold: bool = False
+    end: bool = False
+
+@dataclass
+class ParseErrorReport:
+    idx_str: str
+    val_str: str
+    reason: str
+
+
 def handle_group_idxs(pairs: list[InputPair], length: int):
     actual_pairs: list[InputPair] = []
     errors: list[ParseErrorReport] = []