Schedule a Script to Run

Required security profile permissions: Script Schedules Create

Script scheduling allows administrators and users who write scripts to schedule the execution of a script by the time of day, the day of week, and so forth. Scripts also maintain persistence data so administrators can handle "reawakened" scripts. This protects the system in the event that someone creates thousands of instances of the same script running all at the same time.

1. Click Routing → Script Schedules.
2. Click Create New.
3. Type the Name for the schedule.
4. Select a Script Name from the drop-down list of scripts in your system.
5. Select a Schedule Type from the available choices: One Time, Continuous, or Recurring. The Continuous option is disabled if the Script Name value is not a system script. A system script cannot contain media-specific actions that enable it to run continually. If media actions are required, the system script can SPAWN another script that accomplishes those tasks.
6. Select a Skill from the drop-down lists of skills in your system.

7. Configure the Duration based on the value you selected for Schedule Type:

   One Time

   1. Type a date in the Starts On field, or use the date selector (indicated by a calendar icon) to configure a date.
   2. Select a time from the drop-down list.
   Continuous

   1. Type a date in the Starts On field, or use the date selector (indicated by a calendar icon) to configure a date.
   2. Select a time from the drop-down list.
   3. Select a value for when the schedule Ends. You can choose Never or configure a date and time in the same way you configured Starts On.
   Recurring

   1. Type a date in the Starts On field, or use the date selector (indicated by a calendar icon) to configure a date.
   2. Select a time from the drop-down list.
   3. Select a value for when the schedule Recurs. You can choose Daily, Weekly, or Monthly from the drop-down list, or type a custom value if you want the schedule to recur Every (so many) Days.
   4. Select a value for when the schedule Ends. You can choose Never, configure a date and time in the same way you configured Starts On, or type a custom numeric value if you want the schedule to end after (so many) occurrence(s).
8. Click Next.
9. (OPTIONAL) Type custom script parameters.
10. Click Save.
11. Click Activate.