Scheduling

Topics | How To | Tasks | Troubleshoot

Scheduling ensures that you can run tasks such as reports and summaries on a consistent basis. You can use the scheduling feature to send this critical organizational information to multiple users at multiple times and intervals, in the format that works best for you.

CommNet Scheduling also allows you to:

• Save the scheduled task to a specified folder and be sent as an e-mail to users and user groups.
• Run a particular schedule immediately.
• View the history of schedules with the status of each attempt performed along with the corresponding failure reason, if needed.
• View the schedules that were created by you, along with the number of schedules that you will receive.
• Determine if a schedule is enabled or disabled.
• Disable the scheduler activity for a particular schedule or the entire scheduler.
• Filter schedules on a particular report type or summary window.
• Generate files in either PDF or TSV (Tab Separated Values) format.

In order for scheduled tasks to run, you must have the following minimum requirements:

• A CommNet Browser installed on a CommNet Server
• A valid e-mail server and a senders e-mail address for the CommNet Server
• The correct user Capabilities and Permitted Actions.
• A Windows Scheduled Task Service that is up and running.  Note the following:
  • All CommNet scheduled tasks are displayed in the Windows Scheduled Tasks dialog box.
  • All tasks in the Windows Scheduled Task window are the same as the CommNet scheduled tasks in the CommNet Browser.  An update runs when the Windows Scheduled Tasks service is started, and once every hour after that.
  • All CommNet scheduled tasks are deleted from the Windows Scheduled Tasks service if the CommNet Server software is uninstalled.
  • Do not modify a scheduled task from the Windows Task Scheduler.

    If a scheduled task is modified from the Windows Task Scheduler, the software will not get updated with the new start time.  The scheduled task will start at the time specified in the Windows Task Scheduler and will be ignored at the time it is scheduled to start in the CommNet Browser.  It is recommended all scheduled tasks be modified from CommNet Browser.