| Title | Scheduling a task through windows scheduler |
| Date Updated | 02/22/2006 |
| Versions affected | Automize 5.x+ |
| OS affected | Windows 2000, XP |
| Description | User needs to schedule a task using the windows built in scheduler |
| Causes | |
| Solution |
1) In Automize front panel, select File / Task Runner feature.
Then select the task that you need to run. 2) This will give you the commandline and working directory for use in the windows scheduled tasks feature 3) From the windows control panel, locate the Scheduled Tasks feature. Create a dummy schedule for wordpad.exe using the Windows scheduled tasks feature. Set the desired scheduling properties for this dummy task and save the task. 4) Click on the task again and move to the 'Task' tab. 5) For the 'start in:' field, use the working directory provided by the task runner feature 6) For the 'Run:' field, use the commandline provided by the Task Runner feature. Please ensure that the path to the java machine is enclosed in quotes "". IMP: if the path to javaw.exe includes a space in it, then the path
needs to be enclosed in quotes. |
| Output Log | - |
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