Job Triggers

Now that you have walked through the example in the prior sections, a little more formal introduction to job triggers may begin to clarify the various components you have available to you. As you might have already determined, the trigger defines how a given job definition will cause the JobServer to start up and begin executing a new job. A job definition may not even assign a trigger. As we will see later, you may want to be able to define a job that you may choose to run only on a manual basis. By not assigning a trigger, the JobServer will not start this type of job definition unless it is launched manually through the manager application. Otherwise, a job definition will only ever have one trigger defined for it at any one time. We will be reviewing more about triggers and the distinct types of triggers in later sections.