Highlights2 Scheduler

The Highlights2 Scheduler allows you to set up scheduled monitoring sessions.  The Autodialer uses your Windows Dial-Up Networking settings to access your Internet connection, and monitor any Assistants which require monitoring.  The Scheduler allows you to create multiple scheduled monitoring sessions, which may all be configured differently.

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Schedule Settings

Options Settings

General Properties

Connect Time Properties

Repeat Properties


Schedule Settings

The Schedule tab of the Highlights2 Scheduler dialog box displays the different monitoring sessions which you have created for the Highlights Scheduler to use.

If you choose one of the sessions in the list, you may choose to remove (delete) it from the list, or change (edit) its properties.

You may add a new monitoring session to the Highlights2 Scheduler by pressing the “Add” button, and choosing the properties for the session.

If you choose “OK”, the Scheduler becomes a Taskbar icon, to continue working in the background until the next scheduled monitoring session.

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Options Settings


Options Settings

The Options tab of the Highlights2 Scheduler dialog box allows you to set two options:

The “Tray Item” option forces the Scheduler, when checked, to display as a Windows Tray Icon, rather than occupying desktop space as a dialog box.

The “Run Highlights Session at Startup” option forces the Highlights2 Scheduler to run a scheduled monitoring session at the start up of the Highlights2 application.  If you choose this option, you must specify which session (either a session previously created, or new) you would like the Scheduler to run.

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Schedule Settings


General Properties

The Connection tab of the Session Properties dialog box allows you to configure the settings the Highlights2 Scheduler will use to access the Internet to monitor Highlights2 Assistants.

Session Name:  The name you would like to associate with the session you are editing or creating.

DUN Connection Name:  The name of the Windows connection you would like to use to perform the scheduled monitoring.

UserID:  The UserID you use to access your Internet Service Provider.

Password:  The Password you use to access your Internet Service Provider.

Refresh: This option allows you to choose whether, upon establishing a scheduled Internet connection, Highlights2 refreshes all of your Assistants, or only the Assistants due to be refreshed.

Redial:  This option allows you to choose whether the Scheduler should attempt to establish an Internet connection once, or should redial and try multiple times.  If you choose to set the Scheduler to redial, you must choose the number of times to redial and how long the Scheduler should wait between redial attempts.

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Connect Time Properties

Repeat Properties


Connect Time Properties

The Date tab of the Session Properties dialog box allows you to set the start and stop times of the Highlights Scheduled session.

The Start Time is the time when you would like Highlights2 to start attempting to establish your Internet connection.

The Stop Time is the time when you would like the Highlights2 Scheduler to disconnect from the Internet.  The connection may be stopped at a specific time, upon the completion of the refresh of all Assistants, or which ever option occurs first (by choosing both options, Highlights2 Scheduler will disconnect from the Internet when one of the two options occurs - whichever occurs first.)

Pressing the Now button changes the date and time to the current date and time, so that you may then manipulate them from there.

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General Properties

Repeat Properties


Repeat Properties

The Repeat tab of the Session Properties dialog box allows you to set how often, and when the current session is repeated.

The repeat option allows you to choose never to repeat the session, which would cause Highlights2 to perform the scheduled monitoring once at the Start and Stop times set in the Date tab of the Session Properties dialog box.  You may also choose to repeat the monitoring periodically by choosing the Every option, and selecting a unit of time (days, hours or minutes) for the scheduled monitoring to occur.

The Allow Repeats on section of the dialog box allows you to choose which days of the week the scheduled monitoring should be repeated.  For example, if you are using Highlights2 at work, you would want monitoring to occur on a daily basis during the week, and not at all on Saturday and Sunday.

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General Properties

Connect Time Properties