Zaphod,
Can you explain exactly what you're doing a little better? I don't
understand why you're not just processing the reports as they are requested.
Also, what does it mean to "process" it? Print it? Generate some sort of
file (pdf, word, excel)?
- Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:41 PM
Subject: RE: Options for scheduled task
> Create a Windows Service.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:59 AM
>> To: CF-Community
>> Subject: Options for scheduled task
>>
>> I've got a website that allows people to run custom crystal reports,
>> custom
>> being that they can filter data. When the run the report, it dumps the
>> filter data into a que and then forwards them onto a 'que view'. I've
>> currently got a scheduled task that runs once a minute that will sweep
>> the
>> que and process the first report it sees that isn't processed yet.
>>
>> The problem is you can only schedule a task to run every minute. Some of
>> these reports will run in 10 seconds, some will run for 2 minutes. I've
>> already got my template set up so that it's single threaded. I'd set it
>> up
>> to process multiple reports in a single run, but I figure that has the
>> 100%
>> chance of timing out if enough reports are queued at one time.
>>
>> schtasks.exe only supports 1 minute increments also.
>>
>> am I overlooking an option here?
>>
>>
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>>
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