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CONFIGURING TASKS
The automated Task Management allows a better control on your application. It allows controlling and running
supervision actions without human interaction, in pre-determined time and conditions.
To create and configure a task, proceed as described below:
1. Open the CONFIGURE window, pressing the button
on the upper tool bar.
2. Double clock on the icon TASKS. The window CONFIGURE TASKS will be displayed.
3. Press the button NEW and the window TASK PROPERTIES will be displayed. Examples of these windows are
shown below.
4. In TASK PROPERTIES, attribute a name to the Task. The name will be used to identify the Task in the application.
5. Define an action to be executed when the chosen trigger is activated.
6. Define how the trigger shall be activated, the following types can be chosen:
- Date/Time: You can define a day of the week in a certain time for the task to occur. When selecting this option, the
task will occur always on the same day of the week and in the specified time. You can also define only one day and
time for the task to occur. When selecting this option, the task will occur only once, on the specified day and in the
specified time.
- Conditional: When the set up tag is equal to, higher or lower than (according to the condition chosen), the task will
be executed. The condition check is defined by the Rate of updating.
7. Rate of updating: Indicates the interval in milliseconds, the conditions defined in the other fields are examined in. It
can be defined by a number or a tag.
8. Disable task: it disables the task, you can enable it through the task Object Tag. For further information, see
CHANGING TAGS PROPERTIES. This option is useful when you want to run a task only once.
9. After setting up all parameters, click on the OK button, and check whether the new task has been included in the list
of the CONFIGURE TASKS window.
10. To change the information of an already existing task, select the task from the list of the CONFIGURE TASKS
window and click the button CHANGE.