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Managing Triggers
Triggers work together with time conditions for activating scheduled tasks. This topic describes how you can manage triggers in the Server Console as an administrator.
You can bind triggers when creating scheduled tasks, and then the administrator determines whether the condition is ready and fires the triggers to start running the scheduled tasks waiting on the triggers at any time.
Administrators manage triggers in the Triggers page of the Server Console. To access the page, point to Administration on the system toolbar, and then select Other > Triggers from the drop-down menu.
You can manage the triggers as follows:
- Creating a trigger
- Select New Trigger on the task bar. Server displays the New Trigger dialog box.
- In the Trigger Name text box, type a unique name for the trigger. Select Conflict Check to check whether the name has been used.
- In the Description text box, type a brief description to introduce the trigger.
- Select OK to create the trigger.
Server adds the new trigger in the trigger table and enables it by default. The trigger table contains the following columns:
Column Description Name The names of the triggers. Is Enabled Show whether the triggers are enabled. Referenced The times when the triggers are referenced. Last Fired The time when you fired the triggers last time. Description The descriptions of the triggers. You can select triggers in the trigger table by selecting the check boxes ahead of them. To select all the triggers, select the check box on the column header.
- Select New Trigger on the task bar. Server displays the New Trigger dialog box.
- Firing triggers
When a trigger is enabled, you can fire it to enable scheduled tasks that are bound with the trigger. To fire a trigger, select it in the trigger table by selecting the check box ahead of it, and then select Fire on the task bar. Server records the firing time in the Last Fired column. You can fire multiple triggers at a time. - Disabling triggers
To disable the enabled triggers, select them in the trigger table and then select Disable. - Enabling triggers
To enable the disabled triggers, select them in the trigger table and then select Enable. - Deleting triggers
You can delete triggers that no scheduled tasks have referenced. To delete a trigger, select it in the trigger table and then select Delete. You can delete multiple triggers at a time.