Use the Recurring A/P Posting function to set up your recurring postings to run right away, or to schedule them to run at a later date and time. This function uses the Phantom Scheduler screen, but fills in some of the information from the recurring A/P entry template that you have selected to run. For more information, see Scheduling Phantom Processes.
To run or schedule a recurring A/P posting:
From the A/P > Recurring A/P Entry menu, select Recurring A/P Posting to display the Recurring A/P Posting window.
Note: If prompted, log on to the character-based system.
At the Journal Entry Recurring prompt, indicate if you want include journal entries in the postings.
Select Run Scheduler to display the Phantom Scheduler window.
The Title, Start Time, and Start Date fields fill in with the name of the event, the current time, and the current date.
To update the time and date, update the time and date in the Start Time and Start Date fields.
In the Expire Date field, do one of the following:
To rescheduled the procedure indefinitely, leave this field blank.
To end the procedure on a specific date, enter that date.
In the Reschedule area, type an asterisk (*) next to the timing you want your reschedule to have. For example, you can select Monthly to have the recurring posting occur on a monthly basis.
You can select any or all of the days of the week, Monday through Sunday, or you can chose one of the frequencies in the right column: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, Calendar Month End, or Quarterly.
In the Repeat Every __ Minutes field, if you want the procedure to run more than one time a day, enter the number of minutes between runs. For example, to have the posting occur every two hours, enter 120.
In the Until field, if you want the procedure to not run later than a specified time during the day, enter that time. For example, if you want the postings to stop at 5:00 pm, enter 17, for 17 hundred hours, military time.
Press Esc to save the information and exit the screen.
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