Setting Recurring Start Conditions

Prerequisites

Steps Select Job and Set Task Properties of the Add Task Wizard are complete. For more information, see Creating a Scheduler Task .

Context

You set recurring start conditions for a job definition when you want jobs to run once at a particular date and time, and then run recurrently again at a specified regular interval until an end date.

Procedure

Choose the Recurring tab.
Specify the date and time for the execution of the first job. Proceed as follows:
- In the Start Date field, choose a date.
- In the Time field next to Start Date , enter a time.
  
  Note
  
  When you specify a time, use any of the following formats:
  
  HH:MM:SS AM or HH:MM:SS PM , for example 9:12:11 AM .
  
  HH:MM AM or HH:MM PM , for example 9:12 AM .
  
  HHMMSSAM or HHMMSSPM , for example 091211AM .
  
  HHMMAM or HHMMPM , for example 0912AM .
- In the Time Zone field, enter a time zone.
Specify the date and time for the execution of the last job.
- In the End Date field, choose a date.
- In the Time field next to End Date , enter a time.
- In the Time Zone field, enter a time zone.
In the Period in ms field, enter the regular interval over which you want jobs to run recurrently. For example, if you enter 6 0 000 , an instance of the job definition will run every 1 minute between the specified start date/time and end date/time.
Choose Add to add the recurring start conditions to the scheduler task.
Repeat the procedure to add more recurring start conditions to the scheduler task.

Results

An entry for the recurring start conditions is displayed in the Recurring Time Table .

Now, you can

Set cron start conditions for the job definition
Set simple start conditions for the job definition
Save the scheduler task by finishing the Add Task Wizard. See Creating a Scheduler Task .