Testing the form using the background queue

Before you assign a regular schedule to a report, you should test the form to verify that it can in fact submit tasks to the background queue and that the background queue is able to subsequently process the tasks.

To submit and test a report task on the background queue:

  1. Open a form that can submit a background task to TaskMan.
  2. Select Actions > Background.
  3. On the Background Queue form, the Daily tab, select the option Occurs > Once.
  4. Set the task for a few minutes from the current time.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Save your work and refresh the metadata cache (Ctrl+U).
  7. Using the Active Background Tasks form, verify that the task is placed on the queue, and has a status of WAITING until the specified time.
  8. Verify that the report is generated at the appointed time.