Schedule Update

The following pictures shows the Schedule Properties window and associate tabs. You can click on "hot spot" areas in the pictures below to get detailed information about buttons, controls and fields.

	Occurs
	Indicates if the Schedule occurs Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Specific Dates. After you select the occurs option desired, the next panel will show additional settings for Daily, Weekly and Monthly. For Specific Dates, enter the dates using the Run on these dates and Do not run on these dates fields.

Weekly

Daily, Weekly, Monthly Option

For the Daily, Weekly and Monthly Occurs options, additional information required to determine the Schedule. Enter the recurring information in these fields to obtain the desired schedule settings.

Enabled

Enabled indicates if the object will be processed by the Executive or Notification Servers. Normally all objects are Enabled (that is, checked or set to Yes). However, if you wish to configure an object and not have it processed you can clear the Enabled check box.

For example: If you configure a Schedule and clear the Enabled check box, the Executive Server will not process any of the objects that use the Schedule even if the individual objects are Enabled. If you disable an Operator, the Operator will not receive Notification messages.

Next run date/time

Displays the next run date and time associate with the object on the same line. This indicates when an object that uses this Schedule will next run. It is recalculated by the Executive Server to the next run date and time after objects using the schedule have processed. It is also recalculated when the Apply button is used on the Schedule Properties window.

Note: Only the start time is displayed for schedules with recurring times. For example, a recurring schedule that runs between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM and runs every 60 minutes, will always show 8:00 AM as the time. See the Status list view to determine the actual next time for the object.

Time

Start Time

The start time for the Schedule.

Set Time Now Button

Sets the time in the adjacent time field to the current time.

Recurring Options Button

Click this button to display the Recurring Options dialog where you can set the times within a day you want to the schedule to recur.

Run on these dates, Do not run on these dates

Enter values into this list by selecting the Add button adjacent to the drop down. The Calendar window will be display allowing you to select a date. Once a date is selected it is added to the drop down. You use the Run on these dates and Do not run on these dates capability to create a custom calendar. This can also be used in conjunction with a recurring option (Daily, Weekly or Monthly) to add additional days or exclude days.

Example 1

Set up a schedule to run daily but exclude the next Sunday:

1.Select Daily schedule.

2.Add the next Sunday's date to the Do not run on these dates drop down.

Example 2

Create a custom calendar to run only on holidays:

1.Add the holiday dates using the Add button next to the Run on these dates drop down. You must add each date one date at a time.

Add Button

Use this button to display the Calendar window. You can select a date from this window to populate a date field.

Remove Button

Remove the selected date from the list.

Note: When you Add or Modify the Schedule, the Next run date and time shows when the schedule will occurs next. This date and time is calculated based on the current date and time on the computer where the Executive Server is running. The Executive Server may be running on a different computer. Be sure to account for any difference in times between the two computers.

Day and Time

Start Date

Identifies the Start Date for the Schedule duration. Any object that has the Schedule assigned to it will not be run until the Start Date occurs. This is used in conjunction with the End Date.

End Date

Identifies the End Date for the Schedule duration. Any object that has the Schedule assigned to it will not be run on or after the End Date. This is used in conjunction with the Start Date.

Advanced

Set out-of-date objects to pending

When the Executive Server starts processing it checks the database to determine if any of the enabled Schedules are out-of-date (that is, have a date and time value older than the current date and time). If this option is selected, the Executive Server will place Operation, Steps or Jobs associated with an out-of-date Schedule into the Pending Status.

Start Pending object immediately

When the Executive Server starts processing it checks the database to determine if any of the enabled Schedules are out-of-date (that is, has a date and time value older than the current date and time). If this option is selected, the Executive Server will execute on demand Operations, Steps or Jobs associated with an out-of-date Schedule.

Remove pending objects and reschedule

When the Executive Server starts processing it checks the database to determine if any of the enabled Schedules are out-of-date (that is, have a date and time value older than the current date and time). If this option is selected, the Executive Server will reschedule Operations, Steps or Jobs associated with an out-of-date Schedule to run at their next run date and time.

Run once	Runs one time indicated by the start time.
Specific times	Runs at specific times in a day. You must select and add each time for each day of the week. This option is only available for a Weekly schedule.
Run between times	Runs between the times specified recurring every nn minutes.
Run all day	Runs all day every nn minutes. The start time is midnight and the end time is 11:59 PM.

For the Run between times and Run all day options you can indicate if you want the next recurring time to be calculated based on the Completed time of the Operation or the Starting time of the Operation. Use the Starting time if you always want to run on a specific interval (e.g., on the hour). Use Completed time if you want to wait the absolute time amount before starting the Operation again.

The following window shows the Schedule Recurring options. This dialog provides the ability to have an Operation, Step or Job run multiple times within a day.

Recurs

Run one time

The schedule runs once at the time indicated by the Start Time.

Specific times

Allows the schedule to run on multiple selected times in a day. The times entered can be different for each day of the week. The Specific Time option is available for the Weekly schedule only.

Run between times

Allows the schedule to run between the Start at and End at times specified.

Run all day

Indicates that you want to run the object all day (that is, starting at 12:00 AM and ending at 11:59 PM).

Run once (then delete)

The schedule runs one time. When the Operation, Step or Job that uses the schedule has completed the Schedule is deleted.

Recalculate next time based on

Start Time

The start time for the Schedule.

Start Time

The start time for the Schedule.

Every Minutes

Tells the Executive Server the number of minutes to wait before running the Operation, Step or Job again.

	Name
	Identifies the name of an object in the SmartBatch 2009 database. This can be up to 32 characters in any combination used to uniquely identify the object.

	Description
	The description associated with the object name. This can be up to 64 characters in any combination used to describe the object.