Guide to Updating Plug-ins

Scheduling administrative tasks (Windows and Mac OS) 8-5
Note The tools available on the toolbar change depending on your
selection in the FileMaker Server window. Therefore, not all tools
described below are always visible.
Tip You can place the pointer over a tool to display a description of it.
Updating Last Run and Next Run information (Windows)
Last Run and Next Run information gets updated in the Schedules list
every 15 seconds. You can update it more often, if you want.
To update the information about when a scheduled task ran last and
when it will run again, select one or more scheduled tasks and choose
Action menu > Refresh.
Viewing scheduled tasks in the Schedules
window (Mac OS)
After you create a scheduled task, it appears in the Schedules
window.
To display the Schedules window, choose Window menu > Schedules
Window.
Use this
tool To perform this action
Display the information that was previously displayed in the Details
Pane of the FileMaker Server Console. Information is displayed in
reverse historical order.
Display the information that was previously displayed in the Details
Pane of the FileMaker Server Console. This button activates after
you have used the Back button (above) to display a previous page in
the Details Pane and lets you go “forward” in historical order.
Move the selection up one level in the folder hierarchy in the Console
Tree.
Hide the Console Tree.
Delete the current selection.
Display properties for the current selection.
Update information displayed in the Details Pane of the
FileMaker Server Console (such as the last time a schedule ran).
Display procedural FileMaker Server Help.
Open the New Schedule assistant to create a new schedule.
Run the selected scheduled tasks right now, regardless of the
execution time defined by the schedule.
Enable or disable the selected scheduled tasks. If the selected tasks
are enabled to run on their defined schedule, clicking this button
disables them, removing the checkmark from their list entries. If the
selected tasks are disabled and are prevented from running on their
defined schedule, clicking this button enables them, placing a
checkmark on the left of their list entries.
Prevent all scheduled tasks from running, even if they are enabled
(checked) in the Schedules list. This option lets you turn off all
schedules at once and is convenient for performing administrative
tasks on the server computer. When you click this button,
checkmarks of enabled tasks are dimmed in the Schedules list.
Allow all scheduled and enabled tasks to run. Tasks that you have
individually disabled will not run.
Duplicate one or more selected scheduled tasks to use as a template
for creating a new scheduled task.
Display FileMaker on the Web information in the Details Pane of the
console, which gives you easy access to the official FileMaker, Inc.
web site. Click this tool again to return to the previously displayed
page in the Details Pane.
Use this
tool To perform this action