Scheduling Jobs with Windows Scheduler
Immediately after creating a new job, ePublisher AutoMap starts the Windows Scheduler to allow you to schedule your job. ePublisher AutoMap uses the Windows Scheduler built into the Microsoft Windows operating system. The Windows Scheduler allows you to schedule a job to run at pre-determined times and repeating intervals. If you do not want to schedule the job, click Cancel. You can schedule the job at a later time, and you can modify an existing schedule.
When you schedule a job and then click OK, Windows prompts you for your Windows user name and password. For more information about using the Windows Scheduler, see the Windows operating system online help. To open the Windows online help, click Help and Support on the Start menu.
You schedule a composition job the same way, and a scheduled composition is often what keeps a federated site current: each team's publishing job deploys its own manual on its own schedule, and a composition scheduled to follow them assembles whatever is there into the site. For more information, see Creating a Composition Job.
To schedule a job or change the schedule for an existing job
Start ePublisher AutoMap.
Select the job to schedule or reschedule in the ePublisher AutoMap main window.
On the Job menu, click Schedule Job.
Specify the appropriate values, and be sure to add a Trigger that designates what schedule the Job will run, and then click OK.
If you select the Run whether user is logged on or not option, you will need to specify your Windows user name and password, and then click OK. Since you are scheduling a task in Windows Scheduler, you must provide your Windows user name and password to add the task. If you are part of a Windows domain, include the domain name, such as
<Domain>\<User>.
How a Scheduled Job Reports Its Result
A scheduled job reports its outcome to the Windows Task Scheduler, so the Last Run Result column tells you whether the run succeeded without opening the log:
0x0
The job completed and reported no errors.
0x1
The job ran but reported errors. Open the job log to see what failed. For more information, see Viewing a Job Log File.
Windows Scheduler starts a job through a version-independent launcher, so a scheduled task keeps working after you upgrade ePublisher without your having to re-create it. While a job runs, that launcher appears in the Windows Task Manager as WebWorks ePublisher AutoMap Launcher. Use this name when you monitor for running jobs or configure process-based alerting.
Note: Selecting text in the console window of a running job no longer stops the run. In earlier releases, selecting text put the console into selection mode, which blocked the job's output and could leave the window open indefinitely with no result reported to the Windows Task Scheduler.