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Output - Schedule

Use the Output Schedule page of the View and Output Definition wizard to define when you want the Windows Client to generate reports.

Observe the following:

• The Output - Schedule node in the navigation tree is not active (cannot be selected) unless the Specific Hosts option in the View - Hosts page has been used to specify one or more specific hosts, see the section View - Hosts.
• You must define a valid login ID and password in the Host Definition dialog for the hosts you want to connect to for the schedule function.
• If selected hosts are not available or the object (component) is disabled at the time the data retrieval occurs then the system will skip the unavailable hosts and include data from available hosts only.
• If you are creating a schedule to output reports to a server on your domain you must provide a user ID and password, for the Scheduler, that has the authority to write to the server. For more information, see the section Giving the Scheduler Write Access for Publishing.

Use the Output Schedule page of the View and Output Definition wizard to define when you want the Windows Client to generate reports. You can also use this page to do the following:

• Modify schedules
• Delete schedules
• Review logged output activities
• Set a particular working time limit for the scheduled output

Observe the following:

• The Output - Schedule node in the navigation tree is not active (cannot be selected) unless the Specific Hosts option in the View - Hosts page has been used to specify one or more specific hosts, see the section View - Hosts.
• You must define a valid login ID and password in the Host Definition dialog for the hosts you want to connect to for the schedule function.
• If selected hosts are not available or the object (component) is disabled at the time the data retrieval occurs then the system will skip the unavailable hosts and include data from available hosts only.
• If you are creating a schedule to output reports to a server on your domain you must provide a user ID and password, for the Scheduler, that has the authority to write to the server. For more information, see the section Giving the Scheduler Write Access for Publishing.

To define a new schedule after one or more hosts have been specified

1. Select Schedule in the navigation tree of the View and Output Definition wizard to open the Schedule page.

Note: If there is a scheduled task running that involves a very large table and you initiate the same task manually by clicking Perform in an Output page, an error may occur. To avoid this, when you export very large tables create an MDB file and do not use the default.

1. Click Add to open the New Schedule section.
2. Click the Activate by Scheduler radio button and select a repeating interval to generate the output (for example, to generate output every day at 09:00). Select a time to generate the output using the arrows next to the At prompt field.
3. Click OK to save your schedule configuration.

The Windows Client passes information to the Scheduler. Once the Scheduler is activated it waits in the background, ready to generate the output according to the parameters that you set.

Observe the following:

• For more information about the Scheduler, see the section Windows Client Scheduler.
• For more information about the Schedule List, see the section Schedule List.
• If the Scheduler is activated then you do not need to be logged on to the Windows Client for scheduled activities to occur. However, for activities scheduled to one or more host servers, the host user ID and password must be defined in the Host Definition dialog.