Schedule Tab

You can schedule a transfer activity under the Schedule tab.

Elements Description
Schedule Transfer Adds (select) or deletes (clear) schedules for the transfer. If a transfer is scheduled, it takes precedence over the Check Point/Restart option under the Transfer tab and the input under the Expiration tab.
Hold Permanent Errors Puts a scheduled transfer on hold if a permanent error occurs. If this check box is cleared, the transfer continues to be attempted even after a permanent error occurred. Examples of permanent errors can be the remote file not existing, bad user id or password, and expired license key.
Scheduled Start Indicates when you want a file transfer to execute. This parameter has three fields.
  • Start At: Specifies the date that the transfer is eligible. This defaults to the current date. This entry is mutually exclusive with the Day (day of week) field.
  • Time: Specifies a particular time that the transfer is eligible. This defaults to the current time.
  • Day: Specifies a particular day of the week that the transfer is eligible. This entry is mutually exclusive with the Start At (date) field.
Repeat Provides information relative to the future execution of the particular file transfer after it has been executed once. This parameter has the following radio buttons:
  • Don’t Repeat, Execute Once: When this option is selected, the file transfer is executed once, and then no longer attempted.
  • Indefinitely: When this option is selected, The transfer is to be executed indefinitely (or until the current user or administrator deletes the job) and in accordance with the information specified in the Start At field and in the Interval field.
  • Number of times: This option specifies the number of times the file transfer can be executed before it is removed from the queue. Valid values between 2 and 32767. Default is 2.
  • Until: This option specifies the date, time and the day of the week until when you want to execute the file transfer.
  • Interval: If you specify a Repeat option (with the exception of Don’t Repeat, Execute Once), this option is displayed. There is a drop-down list that provides the following selections: Daily 7 (Sunday to Saturday), Weekly, Bi-Weekly, Monthly, Bi-Monthly, Quarterly, Semi-Annually, Annually, Bi-Annually, and Every.

    The panel changes if the option Every is selected. The Interval parameter adds two additional fields that you can use to indicate the frequency with which you want to repeat the transfer. The first field allows you to insert a number. The second field contains a drop down list which contains seconds, minutes, hour(s), day(s), week(s), month(s) and year(s).

Note: If your scheduled transfer fails during transmission for any reason, the transfer will be executed at the next Scheduled date and time, it will NOT be executed as soon as the problem that caused the failure is resolved.