Administrator’s Guide

Scheduling administrative tasks with FileMaker Server 6-3
Viewing scheduled tasks in the Schedules
list (Windows)
After you create scheduled tasks, they appear in the Schedules list.
The list shows you a summary of each defined schedule, including
the last time the task ran and the next time it will run.
To display the Schedules list, select Schedules in the Console Tree.
You can use this view of your scheduled tasks to change, duplicate,
enable, disable, and run tasks manually.
Tip To change the way items are displayed in the scheduled task list,
choose View menu and then choose a display option.
Administering scheduled tasks with the toolbar
(Windows)
Use the toolbar to work with scheduled tasks in the list. First, select
one or more schedules in the list, then click an active tool on the
toolbar.
Note The tools available on the toolbar change depending on your
selection in the FileMaker Server window. Therefore, not all tools
described below will always be visible.
Click a column
heading to sort
by this column
Click buttons on the toolbar to
administer scheduled tasks
Drag the border
to change the
column width
Console Tree
Details Pane
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 to add to
the list.
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 entry. 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 entry.