Scheduled task - Details

On this page, you specify the settings for a scheduled task. You can also reactivate a stopped task by saving it again or delete the scheduled task.

Note: Depending on the configured task, the Running task - Parameters field, in which the individual settings for a task are entered, changes.

For further information, see .

The following sections are displayed for all scheduled tasks. Further sections and options may be available for individual tasks.

Type of repetition

In this section, you can enter the interval at which the scheduled task should be repeated.

After selecting an interval, additional fields are displayed in which you can specify the time the scheduled task is to be repeated.

Note: The extended fields are not visible if the No / Follow up task or Batch job setting was selected.

For a detailed description of the individual settings, see Repetitions.

Option	Description
Repeat	Type of repetition for the scheduled task.
Type	Type of scheduled task Pre-defined types of scheduled tasks are available for selection. These can be used to group related tasks. The Export, Import and System maintenance types are offered by default.
Starts on	You must specify a date from which the task is valid. The default is the current date.
Ends on	Use this entry to limit the period of validity of the task.

Task to be performed

Here you configure the required scheduled task, user, server access and individual parameters of the task.

Option	Description
User	User responsible for performing the scheduled task who is informed in the event of an error during the task. The name of the user currently logged on is loaded by default.
Task	Select the task from the list. See Scheduled tasks - Available tasks for information about the individual tasks.
Parameter	The parameters to be configured depend on the selected task and are described in each task.
Server	In a system with distributed servers, you specify on which server a scheduled task should run. Most tasks only work on the database and can therefore run on any server, but some import or export tasks must store files in specific directories; in this case, these tasks can only run on a specific server. Select the server in question from the list with the setting Must be run on this server. If the entire system only runs on one server, this setting is superfluous; both options then have the same effect and the task runs as usual.
Follow up tasks	See Follow up tasks. Follow up tasks are all tasks which are No/Follow up tasks and so have no proprietary repetition configured. They appear in every task in this list. They are only carried out if they are set as follow up tasks in a task. If a follow up task is configured here, it is automatically called up and run when the previous task ends.

Status information

This field contains information on performing the scheduled task.

Option	Description
Status	Indicates whether the scheduled task is active. Waiting is the normal display for tasks waiting for the next time at which they should be run.
Last message	Last message output when performing the scheduled task
Last performed	Date and time at which the task was last run
Next performed	Date and time at which the next execution of the task is scheduled