topic Execute code with a timer in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/execute-code-with-a-timer/m-p/388191#M30671 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello All,</P><P></P><P>I have written a code to download some data, run a few operations, symbolize it, and export it but I need this code to run on a timer. IE execute itself every 15 minutes.</P><P></P><P>My issue is that I can not figure out how to write the script so that it will execute the file every fifteen minutes. Once it's written I plan having it run on startup so that if the computer is up it will update my files for the operations center. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:55:48 GMT RusselKlueg 2015-01-05T17:55:48Z Execute code with a timer https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/execute-code-with-a-timer/m-p/388191#M30671 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello All,</P><P></P><P>I have written a code to download some data, run a few operations, symbolize it, and export it but I need this code to run on a timer. IE execute itself every 15 minutes.</P><P></P><P>My issue is that I can not figure out how to write the script so that it will execute the file every fifteen minutes. Once it's written I plan having it run on startup so that if the computer is up it will update my files for the operations center. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:55:48 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/execute-code-with-a-timer/m-p/388191#M30671 RusselKlueg 2015-01-05T17:55:48Z Re: Execute code with a timer https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/execute-code-with-a-timer/m-p/388192#M30672 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Russel,</P><P></P><P>If your code is just a python file (.py) you can just set up a windows scheduled task to run it:</P><P></P><P><A href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/schedule-task#1TC=windows-7" title="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/schedule-task#1TC=windows-7">Scheduling a task - Windows Help</A> </P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Jan 2015 19:56:01 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/execute-code-with-a-timer/m-p/388192#M30672 AnthonyGiles 2015-01-05T19:56:01Z