Scheduling Automation Services jobs

After an Automation Services job is created in the installed Spotfire client, you can schedule the job in the Spotfire web administration pages.

Before you begin

You must belong to the Automation Services Users group.
The Automation Services job that you want to schedule must be saved in the Spotfire library.
You must have Browse + Access permission for the library folder that contains the Automation Services job.

About this task

For general information on this feature, see Automation Services job scheduling.

Procedure

Log in to Spotfire Server and click Automation Services.
On the Scheduled jobs page, click Schedule job.
In the Select automation job from library dialog, browse the library and double-click the Automation Services job that you want to schedule.

Tip: You can also schedule jobs from the Automation Services Job Builder in the installed client. In the job builder, open the job you want to schedule, and then click Tools > Manage Job Schedule.
Optional: On the Scheduled jobs page for a new or edited job, you can edit the name of the scheduled job in the Scheduled job name field. By default, the scheduled job name is the same as the Automation Services job name.
Click Add schedule and specify start and end date, the repetition pattern and which days to repeat. If necessary, change the time zone.

Note: You can only enter a time once in the Add schedule dialog. If you want to schedule the job to run twice (or more) on the same day, add additional schedules for the job.

For example, if you want a job to run every 6 hours on Mondays and Thursdays, repeated every 2 weeks, add this schedule to the job:
Click Add schedule in the dialog.

Tip: For long running jobs, you can optionally configure timeouts per automation job. See Setting maximum execution times for Automation Services jobs for more information.
When you have finished adding schedules, click Save.

Results

The new scheduled job is shown in the Scheduled jobs list, and will run on the scheduled day at the scheduled time.

Tip: You can see information about the Next run for a scheduled job, either directly in the Scheduled jobs list, or, when you click a Show preview link. These are available in the Schedule a job dialog, as well as for each added schedule in the page where you edit a job.