Scheduled Tasks

The scheduler functionality is available from the left menu as shown in the image below.

The scheduler requires an additional license. If you don’t have this license, the menu item is not visible.

Please contact your TECHNIA representative to figure out how to enable this feature.

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Figure 1. Scheduled Tasks

Scheduled tasks can be grouped together. If a task is not placed in a specific group, the Default group is assigned.

A scheduled task needs the following configuration properties

Property Description Required

Group

The group to place the task in

No

Name

The name of the task, must be unique

Yes

Description

The description of the task

No

Schedule

The cron expression defining when the task should be executed

Yes

Time Zone

The time zone, for which the cron expression is supposed to operate in.

Yes

Service

The service that will run the job.

Yes

Configuration

The configuration that defines what the job will do

Yes

Security Context

For jobs that will conduct REST calls against the 3DEXPERIENCE™ system, the security context is normally required. It can be set here, or in the code that executes the task

No

Agent

The agent to be used when conducting any 3DEXPERIENCE™ REST call.

Yes

Input

Optional input parameters to be passed to the job execution

No

The images below shows the different screens where the above properties are declared.

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Figure 2. Create new Task 1/5
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Figure 3. Create new Task 2/5
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Figure 4. Create new Task 3/5
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Figure 5. Create new Task 4/5
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Figure 6. Create new Task 5/5

Job Executions

To see what jobs that have been generated by a task, click on the actions menu and select 'Executions'.

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Figure 7. Job Executions