The tab labeled Options will let you set the ConvertITP timer to be started automatically the next time you open ConvertITP. In other words, if you run a scheduled job and then end that job and close ConvertITP, the next time you open ConvertITP, that job will be reopened and set to run automatically as though you had entered the data and clicked the Begin button. You can turn this option off by clearing the check box labeled Automatically restart the timer on program load.
In the event that a Time Based job runs longer than the time interval you allowed for the job to run, ConvertITP gives you two options for handling the circumstance.
If you select Immediately after the current job finishes, the next job will begin running immediately upon completion of the preceding run. This means that the jobs will be running continuously, back-to-back, regardless of the time interval entered. Selecting Skip this run and set the timer for the next one, causes one run of the program to be skipped but runs at the next scheduled time. Please see Table 3 for an example of this where the interval is set for every 15 minutes, but the running time of the job is 20 minutes. Effectively what happens in this case is the job will run every other time.
|
Start Time |
Next Target Time Calculated Based on Start Time |
|
Actual End Time After Running the Job |
New Updated Target Time |
|
1:00 PM |
1:15 PM |
|
1:20 PM |
1:30 PM |
|
1:30 PM |
1:45 PM |
|
1:50 PM |
2:00 PM |
|
2:00 PM |
2:15 PM |
|
2:20 PM |
2:30 PM |
|
2:30 PM |
2:45 PM |
|
2:50 PM |
3:00 PM |
Table 3. Based on a 15 minute interval, a Next Target Time is calculated. In this example the job takes 20 minutes to run, so the Next Target Time has been missed. With the ‘Skip’ option selected, the program will realize the next target time has past and will recalculate a new target time based on the interval specified by the user. The job will run at 1:00, 1:30, 2:00 etc., half as often as expected.
See Also:
Scheduler Options