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l As soon as possible: Select to have the process run continuously. Clear to enable the
Time Grid to fine-tune the schedule of the process.
l Day(s) to keep backup: Indicate the number of days to keep backups of jobs processed
by input tasks. Note that backups will only be kept for those input tasks that have the
Keep backup file option selected and that they are required to resubmit input files.
l Polling interval: Enter the frequency (in seconds)at which the process should verify if
there are new jobs to process. The polling interval also applies to scheduled tasks that
only run on certain times. For example, if your process polls every 30 seconds on a task
that's only scheduled to run one hour per week, it will capture the input 120 times during
that period. Note that the polling interval is ignored when multiple files are present in the
input and will be used only when there are no longer any files to process.
l Month: Select the month of the year when the process should be run or select All months
to have the process run all year long. This option is disabled when "As soon as
possible"is checked.
l Week of month / by date: Select the desired option for the time grid. Note that any
selection you make in this box will be interpreted based on the selection made in the
Month box. If you chose All months in the Month box and Last in the Week of month / by
date box, then the process will run on the last week of every month. If you chose January
in the Month box and First in the Week of month / by date box, then the process will run
only on the first week of January.
l Select Date to display dates on the grid’s top ruler.
l Select any of the other options to display days on the top ruler.
l Select All weeks to have the process run every week.
l Select First, Second, Third or Fourth to have the process run on the first, second,
third or fourth week.
l Select Last to have the process run only on the last week.
l Time division: Select the duration of each daily segment in the time grid. If you select
00:15, each segment will represent only 15 minutes and each day will be made up of 96
blocks (4 blocks per hour times 24 hours). If you select 24:00, each segment will
represent an entire day.
l Poll once per activity period: Select to perform this process’ initial input task no more
than once for each set of contiguous blocks (blocks that are on the top of one another).
Choosing this option overrides the polling interval option. By default since the Time Grid
blocks are divided by hours, this option will make your polling happen once every hour.
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