Modifying Task Properties in an Active Schedule

As long as a Schedule is active, you can modify some of the properties of its tasks from the Schedule monitor. Changes to task properties affect only the current execution of the Schedule. Changes done to the Schedule and its tasks are recorded in the Reports.

To Modify the Editable Properties of a Task in an Active Schedule

Click the Modify button in the toolbar to activate the edit mode.
Select the task you want to modify.
You can modify the following settings directly from the list of tasks:
- Active
  
  This checkbox is activated by default. This means that this task will be executed according to the settings you are about to define.
  
  If you deactivate it, the task remains as part of the schedule object but will not be executed with it. Its status is ENDED_INACTIVE.
- Start Time
  
  The time at which this task will be executed. The default value is the time defined in thePeriod Turnaround Time field on the schedule's Attributes page.
  
  To change the start time, select and overwrite it. You can specify a different start time for every task in the Schedule here. Take into account that the task start time must always be after the period turnaround time.
  
  Effects of modifying the start time:
  - Set start time forward
    
    For tasks that are waiting for their start time.
    
    Result: The task starts at the new start time
  - Set start time backward
    
    For tasks that are waiting for start time.
    
    Result: The task starts at the new start time. If the new start time lies ahead of the current time, the task status is "ENDED_TIMEOUT - Start time exceeded".
  - Reset start time backward or forward
    
    For tasks that are already finished (any end status).
    
    Result: The task will only start at the new time after the period turnaround.
- Start Offset (days)
  
  You use this field in combination with the period duration and turnaround time. Enter here the number of days that should elapse between the beginning of a period and the activation of the selected task.
To modify other parameters, click the Properties button on the toolbar. This opens a pane at the bottom half of the window. It is divided in several tabs containing the task settings. You can only change the properties in the Runtime tab, the rest serve for information purposes only.

On the Runtime Page of the Schedule object definition, you define the parameters to calculate the maximum and minimum runtimes of tasks. This pane allows you to override these definitions for this task's executions within the schedule object.

When monitoring the task runtime, you can react quickly to runtimes that exceed the maximum defined by canceling or ending the task or executing another one. Likewise, when the execution has ended, you can check whether it was processed in at least the minimum runtime defined and, if not, you can react accordingly.
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