Creating a scheduled refresh task

Rational ProjectConsole Designer Help

You can create scheduled refresh task to have Rational ProjectConsole update all report nodes on the main Web site. To include a report node in the scheduled refresh task run, three conditions must be met:

Note: The User ID field must contain some value, even if a user ID is not required to generate the report.

Because a refresh task may take a long time to finish running, you should schedule the task to run during off hours.

To create a scheduled refresh task:

  1. On the main Rational ProjectConsole Web site, check the Edit Node form for each of the report nodes that you want Rational ProjectConsole to refresh automatically to see that the above requirements for inclusion in the refresh task are met.
  2. On the Designer File menu, point to New, and then click Scheduled Task.
  3. In the Task window, on the General page, in the Task Information area, perform the following actions:
    1. In the Name field, type a name for the task.
    2. Next to the Hostname field, click Select.
    3. In the Select Hostname window, from the Hostnames list, select the name of the machine that you want to run the task.
    4. Click OK.
  4. In the Type of Task area, perform the following actions:
    1. Click Other.
    2. Click Task Type.
    3. In the Select Agent window, from the Agents list, select PortalGenerationAgent.
    4. Click OK.
    5. Schedule the date and time for the task to run. For information about scheduling a task, see Scheduling a task to run automatically.

For information about editing the properties of a report node in the Rational ProjectConsole navigation tree, see Editing a node in the navigation tree in the Rational ProjectConsole Help.