Create Scheduled Task for AIIM

Explanation

This activity is used to create a scheduled task for AIIM, such as the export and import of an integration package and the conversion of an integration package to and from Excel. Scheduling these tasks enables the automatic start of an export, import or conversion task for AIIM at a defined time and frequency, eliminating repetition and manual effort. The task scheduler from Microsoft Windows can be used for this.

Prerequisites

• The connection details, such as the Username, Password and Connecting Server should be known.
• For the scheduling of exporting and importing integration package tasks, the required jobs should be defined along with job parameters for export or import.
• For the scheduling of the conversion of an integration package from Excel task, a plug-in package on the current job must have already been exported.
• For the scheduling of the conversion of an integration package to Excel task, an integration package of the current job that has a plug-in selected on it must have already been exported.

System Effects

• AIIM will be started, in the background, and perform actions according to command line parameters.
• The status of the operations and any errors or information with regard to the task is shown in the ScheduledTaskLog.txt file which will be within the ..\logs\.. folder.

Window

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Related Window Descriptions

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Procedure

1. Open a task scheduler program on your client PC and create a task. (Most Windows systems has a program for scheduling tasks and can be used for scheduling AIIM.)
2. Specify command line argumnets and its values. The following arguments can be used:

• username
• password
• host
• job
• task

Host is used in order to set the server name and portnumber.

Job is the same as job name in AIIM.

Task can be one of the following:

• EXPORTDATABASECORE (Export from the database.)
• IMPORTDATABASECORE (Import back to the database.)
• CONVERTTOEXCELBASIC (Converts an integration package to an Excel sheet.)
• CONVERTFROMEXCELBASIC (Converts an Excel sheet to an integration package.)

An example of a program/script path to start AIIM:

"C:\Program Files\IFS Applications\Asset Information Integration Manager\Ifs.Application.PlantDesign.Migration.Manager.exe”

An example of command line with arguments, is as follows:

"username=aiim1;password=aiim1;host=servername:58080;job=jobname;task=exportdatabasecore"

Note! Double quotation marks need to appear at the beginning and end of both the path and command line. Arguments must be separated by a “;” with no spaces in between.