>Hi All,
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>I'm trying to access the windows task scheduler from Visual Foxpro to track various tasks setup on different stations to make sure they've run.... kind of a task monitor display program. I've managed to dump the tasks on each station into a textfile and parse the file with visual foxpro but I'm having a bit of trouble determining if a task missed parts of it's schedule.
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>Weekly Job, M-F, startsup at 8:00am, repeats every hour. If something happens during a run and the job fails the task scheduler just continues with a status of running and updates the next run date/time. Is there a way trapping when a job misses a specific time or is there some software out there that does a better job of handling tasks ?

If the issue is just that a task that doesn't run properly "hangs", IIRC there is a setting in the task scheduler that can terminate it if it runs longer than X amount of time. So, for example, if you run a job every hour, and it never takes more than 10 minutes if it runs properly, you can set the termination time to be (say) 20 minutes.

I don't know in that case if you get any sort of result code back e.g. "terminated because of running too long".

The Windows Task Scheduler is pretty general-purpose, it doesn't have any magic smarts that can tell you details about why part of a task it's running isn't working properly. For that you need some co-operation from the tasks themselves, e.g. they can write log file(s), set ERRORLEVELs in .BAT/.CMD files, etc.