Set succesive task but I do not want them to run automatically

[Nemo1]

Hello everyone,

I need to set a task that leads to some changes in some documents, then I need to work some other documents based on the results of this first task.-

After that, I need load another task, which depends on the first task.

I could set it up, but I did something that I do not want to do. I did it so, that the first task loads perfectly, and then automatically the second task starts loading. I do not want that, I want to be able to chose when the second task starts. 

how do i do that? 

thanks in advance 

[steeefan · Accepted solution]

If tasks are chained to each other in the QMC, the next one will automatically be triggered once the preceding task finished succesfully (if that condition is set as such).

If you do not want to have that second task automatically fire after the first one but still want to keep them linked to each other, you could introduce a check for a flag in a file. Only if that flag is set to a specific value, then the task would actually run. This could happen in the second task itself or in a separate app itself. That could look sth. like this:

IF $(vCheckFlag) = 1
  TRACE Reload;
ELSE
  TRACE No reload;
  call ThrowException('Error: reload schedule error.');  // Fake error
END IF

vCheckFlag would be the value you read from a file where your default value would be to not run the task. In case you'd like the task to run, you set the value to the activation value, here 1, after you are done with your manual work.

[Anil_Babu_Samineni]

@Nemo1 The simplest option What i have done in the past.

You can schedule a Batch in your windows task scheduler that allows to capture the reload time of your first task application. With this, You can get the date reload time() from Task 1, and store that into Notepad or any text format so. Once you schedule a job with Task scheduler it will reload the second job with this you have always second reload based on first task.