By the end of this chapter you will be able to:

• Set up Tasks tasks and Task Planstask plans
• Schedule Task Planstask plans

Task Plans plans allow you to set up collections of components to run at the same time – and to schedule when analysis will run on these models. In this exercise you will set up a simple Task Plan task plan to run your model, and schedule it.

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Creating Tasks and Task Plans

• In the left-hand menu bar press Image Removed - Show the list of Task Plans
• Press Image Removed
• In the Task Plan details form that pops uprepository browser find Image Added Task Plans
  
• Right click on the heading Task Plans and select Image Added Add Task Plan
• In the task plan details form:Hold down the Shift key on your keyboard, select the Stream
  • Enter the Name: Run Customer Details Model
  • Tick the flag Enabled
  • Press Image Modified - Apply
  • In the Tasks section of the form, press Image Modified
  • From the drop-down menu choose Analysis Task
  • In the Analysis Task Details form that pops up:
    • Enter the Name: Run Customer Summary by Region
    • Press Apply
    • Go to the
    tab
    • Streams
    /Alarm Generators
    • section
      
    • Open the model Introduction to Modelling
    • Find the
    Stream
    • stream Customer Summary by Region
• If this has hidden the task configuration form, bring it back up – remember to use the task bar at the bottom of the PhixFlow application to find it
• • Press Image Added - Show the list of Streams
  • Find the stream Customer Summary by Region
  on the model
  • and drag it into the list of streams to be run by the task
  • Press Image Modified
• In the main Task Plan task plan details form go to the Send Results By Email tab
• Enter the following:
  • Email from: system@PhixFlow.com
  • Subject Expression:

"Result of Run Customer Details Model at " + now()

• • Message Expression:

"Result of Run Customer Details Model at " + now() + ": Messages: " + 
_messages + "; Warnings: " + _warnings + "; Errors: " + _errors

• Go to the
User Recipients tab
• Notification section
  • Drag the user Train (the user you are currently logged in as) into the list of recipients
• In the main Task Plan task plan details form press 
• Right-click on your Task Plan task plan and select Start
• You will receive another email from the export of the customer summary, and an email with the status of the task plan run

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Scheduling Task Plans

• Double-click your new Task Plan task plan to open the details form
• In the Details tab:Tick Basic Settings section, tick the flag ScheduledGo to the
• Schedule tab that appearsASchedule section will appear
• Enter the values:
  • Seconds: 0
  • Minutes: (2 or 3 minutes from now)
  • Hours: (the current hour)
  • Day of Month: *
  • Month: *
  • Day of Week: ?
  • Year: *
• Press 
• Wait for your Task Plan task plan to start under its schedule