Scheduler



Agenda Scheduler

You can make agendas run at a later date or time with the built-in scheduler. Date and time options include running on a specific date, specifying which days, only on a particular day of every month, or running your agenda every hour. Scheduled events are presented in a Wizard-type interface for ease of use and convenience.

The Menus

Create, edit and Delete events - affect the currently selected event from the list below
Suspend all events - no events will run, no matter how many are scheduled.
Run highlighted event - launch AutoWinNet95, and run the selected agenda
Run AutoWinNet95 - launches Autown95.exe in the same directory as the scheduler
Explore AutoWinNet95 directory - opens the current directory for exploration using Windows' Explorer

Creating a new event

Let's make a new scheduled event that will be launched at 3:00am every morning (you'll be asleep, obviously).

  1. Press the New button from the toolbar. You're now in the event-wizard that will walk you through the necessary steps for editing.
  2. Select which agenda to run from the listbox, then press Next
  3. Check the Monday - Friday boxes, since you only want this run on weekdays, and press Next
  4. Check the Run at this time combo box, then choose 03 00 AM.
  5. Click finish

Your scheduler should now contain this line:

Now minimize the scheduler (it will hide itself into Windows' Taskbar) and you're all set.

On the Technical side (programming geeks only)

For any data processing guys and gals in AutoWinNet-land, I present the "Technical Side", which covers a variety of topics throughout the help fileà Scheduled events are stored in AWSCHED.LST, located in the same directory as the scheduler. Each line of that file contains a scheduled event (same thing you see in the listbox above, with commas separating them..

A couple of examples:

My Agenda,Once,01/01/1998,At This Time,11:20 AM
Run My Agenda only once, on this date (again, mm/dd/yyyy format) at 11:20 am

My Agenda,Every,MonWed,At This Time,11:20 AM
Run My Agenda every Monday and Wednesday at 11:20 am