Monitoring tasks
Some features in Infor Fashion PLM require you to execute tasks to process the planning data. Such tasks are referred to as user-initiated tasks, and are executed locally on the same computer or on a remote server.
Infor Fashion PLM manages user-initiated tasks as foreground tasks or background tasks:
- Foreground task
This task must be completed before starting another task.
- Background task
A background task is executed either in a local server or a remote server in the background without affecting other tasks that the user is executing. This task can be scheduled to run immediately or at a later date and time. A background task executed locally is not continuous and will be terminated if the machine is shut down. However, a background task scheduled on a remote server runs continuously until the task is complete.
The status of the background task is observed by launching the task monitor. A task monitor is a utility built into PAH that uses Windows services to monitor user-initiated background tasks. To launch the task monitor, select on the main menu.