Schedules¶

Running a schedule on demand¶

1. Open Orchestration → Executions and select a schedule.
2. Click Run in the details panel on the right.
3. The row moves through Queued → Running → Finished — or Failed if one of its tasks fails — updating on its own. You do not need to press Refresh.
4. The run appears in both Last 5 executions and Full History.

You can do the same from a process map: open a schedule group's task history and click Run there.

The schedule needs at least one task assigned and a schedule defined in ODQ Desktop.

How a manual run behaves¶

A disabled schedule can still be run by hand. Switching a schedule off stops it firing on its timetable; it does not stop you starting it yourself. It stays visible in the grid with its history.

Running a Continuous schedule by hand shifts its next run time. A Continuous schedule runs again once the previous run finishes, and a manual run counts as that previous run. No other frequency is affected this way.

A Continuous schedule that is already running will not start a second time. Clicking Run stops cleanly and no new run appears.

Stop is visible but greyed out while a schedule runs, with a tooltip explaining that a running schedule cannot be stopped from here.

Which environment a schedule appears under¶

Each schedule has an Execute environment, set in its ODQ Desktop editor, and appears in the Executions grid for that environment only. A Production schedule is listed under Production, not under Development and Testing.

• A schedule with no Execute environment set appears in the Production grid.
• A schedule with no schedule defined is not listed in any environment. It can never run.

Cloud: schedule groups are managed in TDP¶

On a cloud tenant, opening, creating or double-clicking a schedule group in ODQ Desktop — from the object tree, the Schedule Group list, or a recent item on the Start Page — shows:

Schedule Group management has moved to Timextender Data Platform.

with Open in TDP and Close.

These right-click actions are disabled on cloud: Rename, Delete, Move and Change System, including moving a group by dragging it.

Every user on a cloud tenant sees this. No role or permission exempts you, and there is no setting to turn it off — it is tied purely to running on cloud.

Holiday Lists are unchanged and still open and edit normally in Desktop.

Related¶

• The Schedules list
• Creating a schedule — the Schedule tab
• Adding tasks to a schedule