Lesson 3 - Running and Scheduling Processes

In Lesson 2, we learned how to create and configure a Automator process. In this lesson, we will concentrate on running processes. Processes can be run in different ways:

q  Manually

q  Via a process schedule

q  Via input file monitoring

In this lesson, we will learn how to run the process manually and via a schedule. We will also be introduced to jobs.

The input file monitoring settings enable you to set monitoring of a particular location, then trigger the running of a process when a specific input file (or any file of the specified file type) appears in that location. For the information about specifying input file monitoring settings for a process, refer to the corresponding topic in the web help.