AnthillPro uses schedules to determine when events such as builds, cleanups, backups, etc., are automatically run by the system. Typically, schedules are created on an as-needed basis when you are configuring projects. Once a schedule has been created, it may be used by many different AnthillPro resources. For example, if you want to schedule a nightly build for a project, set up a schedule that fires once a day and then add that schedule to the project's trigger. Or, you can set up a cleanup schedule that is used by numerous projects. There are two types of schedules you can create in AnthillPro:
Interval Schedule. Regularly fires after a fixed interval of time, and is the simplest schedule. See Create Interval Schedule.
Cron Schedules. May be configured to consider more complex criteria than a simple interval. See Create Cron Schedules.
Which schedule type you use is based, in part, on the complexity of the event you are scheduling. For daily/nightly builds, the interval schedule is sufficient. However, for backups, you may want the schedule to fire the first Saturday of the month -- except on holiday weekends, etc. In this case use a Cron schedule.
| To create a schedule, you must have permissions to the System page. See Setting Up Security. |