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Launching Tasks at a Future Date and Time

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In this exercise, we will launch several tasks at a single future date and time (a couple minutes from now). For this exercise, we will use the SQL tasks we created before.

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Create a Temporary Trigger

  1. From the navigation pane, select Triggers > Temporary Triggers and click New.
  2. In the Trigger Name field, type Launch SQL Tasks.
  3. In the Tasks field, click the Lock. In the Search field (with the magnifying glass), type SQL. The four SQL tasks you created pop up. Select the first one, then repeat the process for the other three
  4. In the Date field, leave the default set to the current date.
  5. In the Time field, enter a time a couple of minutes in the future, using 24-hour time.
  6. In the Time Zone field, select your timezone.
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  8. Right-click the down-arrow and select Save.
  9. Enable the trigger.

View the Activity Screen

Navigate to the Activity screen. At the designated time, the four tasks are loaded and run.


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