Select the tab labeled Options to see the following two settings:
Automatically restart the timer on program load
It allows the CPPT timer to be started automatically the next time you run CPPT. In other words, if you run a scheduled job and then end that job and close CPPT, the next time you open CPPT, that job will be reopened and set to run automatically as though you had clicked the Begin button. This means that if you've scheduled a job that runs every second week, for example, when the timer automatically restarts the CPPT scheduler will recalculate the next run based on today's date regardless of the length of time that might have been remaining before the next run when you last closed CPPT.
HINT: You can have CPPT launched by your operating system when starts (on Windows 7 it is know as the Startup folder). That combined with this program option will allow you to easily automate conversion jobs with no effort.
In the event that a Time Based job runs longer than the time period specified, CPPT 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 conversion job 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, CPPT 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., running half as often as expected.
See also:
Scheduler Options