Scheduling

[McKirahan]

"Thomas Parslow" <tom@almostobsolete.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a component which when a method is called has to take an action
> at a later date. This could be a few days in advance or an hour or so,
> it's quite important that the action is taken at the right time (an
> error of 5 minutes or so is ok but not much more than that).
>
> As far as I know the task scheduler can only run tasks on a daily
> basis. I think it might be possible schedule things to run once at a
> specific time but doing it that way seems to be just asking for
> trouble.
>
> What I'd really like to find is a way to have a vbs file run every 5
> minutes, it could then load up my component and let it check if
> anything needs doing, does anyone know any way of doing this?
>
> I guess one way to do it might be to have a program running constantly
> on the web server just to do scheduling, but I'd rather not do that
> unless there is no other way...
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks :)
> -Tom

The Windows Task Scheduler is configurable.

I use it (in Win98) to visit a URL each day at 3AM.

[Tom Kaminski [MVP]]

"Thomas Parslow" <tom@almostobsolete.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a component which when a method is called has to take an action
> at a later date. This could be a few days in advance or an hour or so,
> it's quite important that the action is taken at the right time (an
> error of 5 minutes or so is ok but not much more than that).
>
> As far as I know the task scheduler can only run tasks on a daily
> basis. I think it might be possible schedule things to run once at a
> specific time but doing it that way seems to be just asking for
> trouble.
>
> What I'd really like to find is a way to have a vbs file run every 5
> minutes, it could then load up my component and let it check if
> anything needs doing, does anyone know any way of doing this?
>
> I guess one way to do it might be to have a program running constantly
> on the web server just to do scheduling, but I'd rather not do that
> unless there is no other way...
>
> Any suggestions?

Have task scheduler run your vbs every five minutes ...

--
Tom Kaminski IIS MVP
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[url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
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[McKirahan]

"Tom Kaminski [MVP]" <tomk (A@T) mvps (D.O.T) org> wrote in message
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> "Thomas Parslow" <tom@almostobsolete.net> wrote in message
> news:eV9JZrQfDHA.1872@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a component which when a method is called has to take an action
> > at a later date. This could be a few days in advance or an hour or so,
> > it's quite important that the action is taken at the right time (an
> > error of 5 minutes or so is ok but not much more than that).
> >
> > As far as I know the task scheduler can only run tasks on a daily
> > basis. I think it might be possible schedule things to run once at a
> > specific time but doing it that way seems to be just asking for
> > trouble.
> >
> > What I'd really like to find is a way to have a vbs file run every 5
> > minutes, it could then load up my component and let it check if
> > anything needs doing, does anyone know any way of doing this?
> >
> > I guess one way to do it might be to have a program running constantly
> > on the web server just to do scheduling, but I'd rather not do that
> > unless there is no other way...
> >
> > Any suggestions?

>
> Have task scheduler run your vbs every five minutes ...
>
> --
> Tom Kaminski IIS MVP
> [url]http://www.iistoolshed.com/[/url] - tools, scripts, and utilities for running

IIS

> [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
> [url]http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/centers/iis/[/url]

You're right -- it wouldn't be feasible.

But anything that must be constantly running takes resources....

Could you use JavaScript's or VBScript's "setTimeout" function for your
purposes?

[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/ref[/url]
erence/methods/setTimeout.asp

[url]http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/ecmascript/quickref/win_settimeout.html[/url]

[url]http://www.pageresource.com/jscript/jtimeout.htm[/url]

[Aaron Bertrand - MVP]

> As far as I know the task scheduler can only run tasks on a daily

> basis.

No, not true. You can have a task run every minute all day long, if you
want.

[McKirahan]

"Aaron Bertrand - MVP" <aaron@TRASHaspfaq.com> wrote in message
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> > As far as I know the task scheduler can only run tasks on a daily
> > basis.

>
> No, not true. You can have a task run every minute all day long, if you
> want.

The "Advanced Schedule Options" supports "Repeat Task".

[Thomas Parslow]

Excelent, that's just what I was looking for!

Thanks very much...

-Tom

"McKirahan" <News@McKirahan.com> wrote in message
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> "Aaron Bertrand - MVP" <aaron@TRASHaspfaq.com> wrote in message
> news:uQbovmSfDHA.2248@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

> > > As far as I know the task scheduler can only run tasks on a daily
> > > basis.

> >
> > No, not true. You can have a task run every minute all day long, if you
> > want.

>
> The "Advanced Schedule Options" supports "Repeat Task".
>
>