>>I'd need something that will let users add stuff to the scheduled tasks. Anyone ever written an interface in VFP for the thing or have any suggestions?
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>>Thanks!
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>Victor,
>What I did was to create a timer based task runner, running background invisibly. When its timer fires it reads the jobs from a table and executes them. The table holds things like jobId, machineToExecuteOn, lastRanTime, nextRunTime, parameters.
>Main application have an interface to create scheduling per task and it creates the entries in job table.
>IOW it's completely VFP based scheduled tasks runner, coupled closely with the appication (using many shared routines to do its jobs).
>Cetin

That sounds exactly like something I wrote a few years ago for a client in Texas. I'd love to re-use the source code I did for them, but in this case the client owns that souce code so I can't. It took me a coupla weeks to write it back then so I was hoping to avoid having to do all that and just find a way to use the MS scheduler...