Configuration

The Configuration tab has the following fields.

Field

Global Var?

Description

Name

No

The name to appear as the label for the activity in the process definition.

Description

No

Short description of the activity.

Start Time

Yes

The day and time to start the process. If the process is to be run periodically, then the start time indicates the first time to run the process.

The local machine’s time zone is used to determine when the process should start. If the project is run on machines in different time zones, the time zone of the machine where the project was saved is used. Use a global variable in this field to supply start times relative to the time zone where the project is deployed.

If you supply a global variable for this field, the format of the specified time must be the following:

yyyy MMM dd HH:mm:ss z

For example, "2004 Apr 28 20:35:11 EST". The z at the end of the date format is the name of the time zone. For a list of time zone names, see Time Zone Names.

Run once

No

Indicates this process should be run only once at the day and time indicated by the Start Time field. If unchecked, the Time Interval and Interval Unit fields appear to allow you to specify the frequency of the process.

Time Interval

Yes

Integer indicating the number of units specified in the Interval Unit field. For example, if a value of 1 is specified and the Interval Unit field is specified as Hour, a new process is started every hour beginning at the time specified in the Start Time field.

If a value of 2 is specified and the Interval Unit field is specified as Month, a process is started every other month, beginning at the time specified in the Start Time field.

If the value specified is less than one second (1000 milliseconds), the timer ignores the specified interval and is triggered once every second.

Note: If you use a global variable for this field, the global variable specifies the time interval in milliseconds and the Interval Unit field is not displayed.

Interval Unit

No

Unit of time to use with the Time Interval field to determine how often to start a new process. The units can be: Millisecond, Second, Minute, Hour, Day, Week, Month, Year.