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Muhanned_Maayeh
Level 4

Creating an hourly Scheduled Task.

I have an InstallScript MSI project and I had created Scheduled Tasks. One of the tasks I need to modify this to be a recurring task to run ever hour. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? As the Scheduled Task node located under the System Configuration --> Scheduled Tasks only has the daily schedule type as the minimum interval you can create.
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hidenori
Level 17

An hourly scheduled task can be configured through the Advanced settings that is available in the Windows Task Scheduler, but InstallShield currently doesn't support it. Therefore, I file the enhancement work order #IOJ-1699991 to take into consideration for a future release.

Thank you for your feedback!
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Muhanned_Maayeh
Level 4

hidenori wrote:
An hourly scheduled task can be configured through the Advanced settings that is available in the Windows Task Scheduler, but InstallShield currently doesn't support it. Therefore, I file the enhancement work order #IOJ-1699991 to take into consideration for a future release.

Thank you for you feedback!


Thank you very much for the enhancement request as this will help in the future but, how do I accomplish this now? I understand I cannot use the current nodes however, is there a method that will accomplish what I need to do?
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hidenori
Level 17

To get it workaround, you can create your own custom action that will manage your scheduled tasks. See this post as an example on how a scheduled task can be created with the Schtasks.exe command.
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Muhanned_Maayeh
Level 4

hidenori wrote:
To get it workaround, you can create your own custom action that will manage your scheduled tasks. See this post as an example on how a scheduled task can be created with the Schtasks.exe command.


Thank you very much I will check this post out.
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