Launching Process
·
Steps
of Submitting a Process
o
Select
or Enter a RUN Control ID
§
Its
an Identifier that when paired with the login User ID, uniquely identifies the
runtime parameters for your process
o
Enter
Runtime Parameters (If Any)
o
Select
and Run Process
Launching Process Header Option’s
·
Server
Name
o
Select
the name of server on which you want the process to run.
·
Recurrence
o
Select
the recurring time intervals for the process to run.For example, to run a
process every weekday at 5:00 P.M., select the predefined recurrence definition
M-F at 5pm.
·
Time
Zone
o
Select
the time zone in which the process will run. For example, you might be in
Eastern Standard Time (EST) and schedule a process to run in Pacific Standard
Time (PST).
·
Run
Date
o
Select
the date on which you want the process to run.
·
Run
Time
o
Select
the time at which you want the process to run.
Output Types
·
File
o
Writes
the output to the file that you indicate in the Output Destination field.
·
Printer
o
You
can enter a custom printer location in the Output Destination field if you have
the appropriate security access. If the Output Destination field is left blank,
the printer that is defined on the Process Profile Permissions page is used. If
that printer is undefined, the default printer defined for the process
scheduler is used.
·
Email
o
Sends
the output through an email. To distribute a report to an email list, enter the
appropriate information on the Distribution Detail page by clicking the
Distribute To icon. By default, the output is sent through email to the person
running the process. This option is available for SQR, PS/nVision, and Crystal
reports.
·
Web
o
Sends
all output of the process to the report repository, including log and trace
files. The format of the report is specified by the format list.
Formats
·
Acrobat
(*.pdf)
·
Crystal
Reports (*.rpt)
·
Rich
Text Files (*.rft)
·
Text
Files (*.txt)
·
Comma
Delimited (*.csv)
·
Excel
(*.xls)
·
HTML
(*.htm)
·
Word
(*.doc)
o
Etc.
Process Status
·
Queued: Status assigned to a new process request. The
process request remains Queued until a PeopleSoft Process Scheduler Server
picks up the new request.
·
Hold: Indicates that a user has requested
the scheduling of a process request be put on hold.
·
Initiated: Indicates that a PeopleSoft Process
Scheduler Server has acknowledged the new request. At this time, PeopleSoft
Process Scheduler validates the parameters that are associated with this
request and submits the command line to start the process.
·
Processing: Indicates that PeopleSoft Process
Scheduler has successfully initiated the program. A status Processing indicates
that the program is running.
·
Success Program has successfully completed
·
Error: Indicates that the program that is
associated with the process request encountered an error while processing
transactions within the program. In this case, delivered programs are coded to
update the run status to Error before terminating.
·
No Success: Indicates
that the program encountered an error within the transaction. No Success is
different from Error because the process is marked as restartable. (Application
Engine is the only delivered process type that is restartable).
·
Posting: Files have been generated and Distribution
Agent is posting them to the repository
·
Not Posted: Indicated
Distribution Agent was not able to transfer the reports to Repository
·
Delete: A user has deleted a process
request
