Auditor Help: Scheduling Jobs with Non-Auditor Tasks

This document describes creating a scheduled task within the Ecora Auditor Professional product for non-Auditor applications. This technique can be useful when a dependency between an Auditor task and a non-Auditor task is desired. Ecora Auditor Professional version 3.6 or higher is required. The following screenshots demonstrate the technique with the Windows module, but applies to all modules.

The following example creates a task within the Auditor software to launch a non-Auditor application at a specified time.

1. Open Auditor Professional.
   
2. Click on the Scheduled Tasks tab in the left pane.
3. Select an existing archiving task and click Copy....
   
4. Enter a name for the copied task and click OK.
5. With the new task selected, click the Schedule... button.
   
6. Enter the path and application to be run.
7. Enter the correct start-in path and any necessary comments.
   

This task can now be run from the Ecora Task Scheduler tab just like other jobs.

WARNING:  Use the Schedule... button to make changes and to view the task command. Do not use the Edit... button to make changes to this task - it may add command line parameters to the task whereas the Schedule... button displays the command line.

Task dependencies can be set from the Ecora Task Scheduler. In the following example, the Calculator task is the parent of the Notepad task.

1. Copy a previous task.
2. Create a task for launching Notepad.exe - do this by copying a previous task.
   
3. Make the Calculator task the parent for Notepad.
   
   

In this case, Notepad.exe is launched after the Calculator task finishes.

Note:  There is a slight delay starting the task due to the refresh time between the Ecora Task Scheduler service and the Microsoft Task Scheduler service.