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Title How to prevent overlapping schedules for Command tasks
Date Updated 12/08/2005
Versions affected 4.0 and later
OS affected Not a bug
Description The Command and WindowsCommand tasks  are multi threaded to allow users to run their own programs or scripts simultaneously.  Also, many user scripts may take hours to finish.  The disadvantage of multi threaded tasks is that overlapping schedules can occur if the task takes too long to run.
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Solution 4.x and 5.x - Run the Command or Windows Command task as the only task within a Chain task. No overlapping schedules of the Chain task is possible because it is synchronized. 

6.x - Use the Scheduler - Synchronization feature and create a profile for this task to prevent overlapping schedules.
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