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Scheduler task: Start Process

This task starts a process for Process Management. You can use this task to automatically start a process at a specific point in time, including recurring schedules (such as to automatically start a monthly process).

This task can be used to start a generic process definition or a plan file process definition.

Item	Description
Process to start	The process definition to start. Click the Browse button to select the process definition file. You can select any process definition that you have access to within the Process Definition Library or within a file group Process Definitions folder. If the Scheduler job is stored in a file group Utilities folder, then you can optionally navigate to the process definition file through the Current File Group node at the top of the file groups list. When you do this, the path to the file is stored relative to the current file group, which means that it will automatically update when the file group is cloned. This is the recommended method of referencing the process definition file when the Scheduler job belongs to a file group.
Restart process if it is already running	Specifies whether the Scheduler task will restart the process if it is already running, or if the process will be left as is. Select this option if you want to start the target process regardless of whether it is already running. The current process instance will be aborted and a new process instance will start over at step 1. This option is selected by default. Clear this option if you want to leave the existing process instance running. In this case, the Scheduler task will take no action if the target process is already running.

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Description

Process to start

The process definition to start. Click the Browse button to select the process definition file. You can select any process definition that you have access to within the Process Definition Library or within a file group Process Definitions folder.

If the Scheduler job is stored in a file group Utilities folder, then you can optionally navigate to the process definition file through the Current File Group node at the top of the file groups list. When you do this, the path to the file is stored relative to the current file group, which means that it will automatically update when the file group is cloned. This is the recommended method of referencing the process definition file when the Scheduler job belongs to a file group.

Restart process if it is already running

Specifies whether the Scheduler task will restart the process if it is already running, or if the process will be left as is.

Select this option if you want to start the target process regardless of whether it is already running. The current process instance will be aborted and a new process instance will start over at step 1. This option is selected by default.
Clear this option if you want to leave the existing process instance running. In this case, the Scheduler task will take no action if the target process is already running.