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Indy
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Hi all, great program. I need some advice on how to run a job at a future time. Also, is it possible to run a step in a job at a specific time as well? For example, i have a job with 5 steps. Steps 1 to 5 all involve running an application or a winautomation exe job. I want to create a job where step one will run immediately, step 2 24 hours later, step 3 48 hours later and etc. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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D.M.Altizer
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Re: Setting a future time to run a program?

 Hello Indy,

The feature that you are obviously missing is "Triggers". If you want to specify a job to be executed at a future time, you will have to use the Schedule Trigger. In order to execute different parts of the job at different times, you basically have 2 options:

1) Use the "Wait" action to pause between the various steps of the job

2) or break the job into smaller ones.

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Re: Setting a future time to run a program?

Hi,

Where can I find Triggers in Winautomation. I have had a look at all actions and cant seem to find anything about schedule triggers.

Thanks in advance !

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Re: Setting a future time to run a program?

Hello there! Triggers (like Schedule Trigger) are associated with an entire job, not with specific actions of a job. This is why, in order to associate a job with a trigger, you will have to select the job in the WinAutomation console window, right click on it and then select the "Edit Triggers" option. 

Then you can use the "Add New Trigger" option and select the kind of trigger that you want to add.

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