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Navigate to the jobs in your home folder (named after your current account) and find the A directory where the jobs that are in the A_Group_Windows layout. Now right click on any job. The pop up menu above will appear. As you can see, many of the operations that can be done from the layout can also be performed in the Explorer view. For this exercise, select Properties. This brings up the property page for the selected job where all job attributes are set.
The job property page contains a wealth of important features of the job including what it does, how it runs and what it does after it completes. Feel free to look at all the tabs and begin to see the many features of EnterpriseSCHEDULE jobs. Among the properties are:
General features - shows information about recent job runs including when the the job completed and how long it took.
Rescheduling - allows you to set the way a job reschedules itself. The choices include running on a named day of the week, run at an interval and run based on the marks in a calendar.
Commands - is what the job does when it run. This can be a batch file, an executable or a shortcut. All DOS commands may be included.
Notify - describes how the user can be notified when certain events occur. This can be via e-mail, pager or pop up notification.
Resources - this powerful feature lets you to base job runs on variables and other factors in order to add a higher level of control to job scheduling.
Connections - let you set the dependencies between jobs including initiates that start another job when the current job completes and prerequisites which hold up future jobs until completion