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Date-Time/Manual Events

Date-Time/Manual Events let you schedule workload or trigger workload manually.

When you define a new Application in the Define perspective, CA WA Desktop Client defines a default Date-Time/Manual Event. By default, CA WA Desktop Client uses your user name as the Event prefix and your Application name as the Event name. You can use this Event to schedule the Application or to run the Application manually. You can also create additional Events in the Application.

With Date-Time/Manual Events, you use schedule criteria to define when the server triggers the Event. The schedule criteria for an Event generally includes a time and a frequency. For example, you can schedule an Event to run daily at 10 a.m.

You can also specify exceptions to the schedule criteria. For example, you can schedule an Event to run daily at 5 p.m. except on the last workday of the month.

If you do not specify schedule criteria in the Event, you must trigger the Event manually to run the Application. For example, suppose that you want to trigger a one-time Event to run the Application on a particular day. You would define the Event without schedule criteria and trigger it manually on that day.