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Schedule Parameters

This section describes the parameters that you can use to specify when to execute a project. For instructions on creating a schedule, see Scheduling Jobs.

Schedule entries in the system work like UNIX/Linux cron jobs, allowing you to use a series of fields to specify when a project executes.

Field

Description

Range

Minutes

The number of minutes.

0-59

Hours

The hour in the day.

0-23

Dates (Day of Month)

The day of the month.

1-31

Months

The month of the year.

1-12

Days (Weekday)

The day of the week (Sunday = 0).

0-6

The numeric values you enter in the fields may be represented as follows:

The project schedule is constructed from the values specified for the fields. In general, the project runs at the time or times that match all the fields as shown in the following examples:

Values

Desired schedule

Minutes

Hours

Dates

Months

Days

Run project daily, at 5 p.m.

0

17

*

*

*

Run project weekly, every Monday at 4:30 p.m.

30

16

*

*

1

Run project every half hour on every week day, skip weekends

*/30

*

*

*

1-5

Run project at 12:30 a.m., every other day

30

0

*/2

*

*

However, if the dates and days fields are both non-asterisk values, then the project runs when either of them occurs:

Values

Desired schedule

Minutes

Hours

Dates

Months

Days

Run project at 1:01 a.m. on the first day of each month

1

1

1

*

*

Run project at 1:01 a.m. on every Monday in the month

1

1

*

*

1

Run project at 1:01 a.m. on every Monday in the month and on the first day of the month regardless of whether that day is a Monday

1

1

1

*

1