Timers

The paragraph describes creation and management of timers in the administration view.

Reference	Attribute	Description

Reference	Attribute	Description
1	Timers	The Timers panel will display all timers running with the pre-selected columns to show valuable information such as Webservice name, method and Parameter, Last execution or Start time. The displayed columns can be modified. Clicking on a timer will open the detailed view.
2	Start timer	Click on the 'Play' button to start the timer. If the timer is running click on the 'Pause' button to stop the timer.
3	Create timer	In order to add a timer to the timer panel click on the 'Create timer' button.

4 Detailed View
The detailed view of the timer displays the attributes a timer needs in order to function as intended.

Attribute	Description

Attribute	Description
Timer name	Name that can be assigned to a timer individually. Usually describes the purpose of the timer.
Webservice name	Mandatory field. Name of the webservice being used.
Webservice method	Mandatory field. Name of the method of the webservice being used.
Parameter	Depending on the timer, parameters can vary and be mandatory. The specific attributes for each timer can be found here: Timer
Time to start	The time to start can be set here.
Starting time	The date and time can be defined in order to set a specific condition for running the timer the first time.
Max. runs	The amount of times that a timer should run. To set the timer to run infinite times, set the value to ´-1´.
Status	If an error occurs during the run time of the timer, the error massage will be displayed in this field.
Executing user	The user that executes the timer run. Usually sys.timer
Interval	The timespan between each timer run.
Runs	The count of all timer runs.
Last execution	Date and time of the latest timer run.

Reference	Attribute	Description

Reference	Attribute	Description
5	Start timer	Click on the 'Play' button to start the timer. If the timer is running click on the 'Pause' button to stop the timer.
6	Delete	In order to remove the timer from the timer panel click the 'Delete' button. Once deleted a timer can not be restored from the front-end.
7	Save	All changes made in the detailed view take effect once the 'Save' button is clicked.

Reference	Attribute	Description

Reference	Attribute	Description
8	Timer name	Mandatory field. Name that can be assigned to a timer individually. Usually describes the purpose of the timer.
9	Webservice name	Mandatory field. Name of the webservice being used.
10	Webservice method	Mandatory field. Name of the method of the webservice being used.
11	Parameter	Depending on the timer the parameters can vary and be mandatory. The specific attributes for each timer can be found here: Timer
12	Time to start	The time to start can be set.
13	Interval	The timespan between each timer run.
14	Starting time	The date and time can be defined in order to set a specific condition for running the timer the first time.
15	Max. runs	Mandatory field. The amount of times a timer should run. To set the timer to run infinite times set the value to '-1'.
16	Create timer	Click the 'Create timer' button in order to add the timer to the timer panel.