Task Log screen

The Task Log screen displays the history of all scheduled tasks.

Fields on the Task Log screen

# Field Description Notes

Tool bar

1

Success / Failure filter

Filter the screen by the following status options:

  • All—All tasks.

  • Success—Only tasks that have run successfully.

  • Failure—Only tasks that have failed to run.

Default: All.

2

Task Type filter

Filter the screen by notifications with the selected notification type. Options include:

  • Calculate Attendance—Runs the Employee Points work rules and gives employees points when the employees' punches are outside of the established parameters. The purpose of this task is to record and report attendance infractions such as absenteeism, tardiness, early arrival, late departure, long breaks, and meals.

  • Calculate Forecast Accuracy—Runs algorithms to calculate both system and manager revenue center forecast accuracy.

  • Generate Projected Hours—Generates a forecast for the number of hours required to meet projected business volumes.

  • Generate Revenue Center Forecast—Generates a business volume forecast for your revenue centers.

  • Generate Rooms Forecast—Generates a forecast for rooms, arrivals, departures, and guests for transient market segments.

  • Generate Schedules—Generates a schedule based on labor requirement, regular schedules you might have created, each employee's required and preferred time off, and all jobs that an employee is trained to work.

  • Generate Standard Hours—Calculates how many hours of labor each job should have used to meet actual business volumes.

  • Import Forecast KBI Data—Imports forecast information from external, third-party systems such as a property management system (PMS) to populate forecast KBI data.

  • Open New Planning Period—Closes last week's forecast period and rolls the date forward to begin forecasting for the upcoming week.

  • Populate Revenue Data—Generates revenue data information in RMS.

  • Pre-Shift Screening Notifications—Sends notifications to employees who have an active survey on a specified number of minutes before their shift. The number of minutes is defined in an Employee Alerts work rule.

  • Project Accruals—Projects benefit accruals based on the Benefit Accrual work rules for the current pay period.

  • Reconcile Employees—Reconciles RMS employee information with information from an external, third-party system and updates accordingly. 

  • Reports—Schedules reports to run automatically. Reports can also be scheduled from Reporter.

  • Update Pre-Shift Screening Schedules—Enables surveys for employees based on their schedules for the next 24 hours.

Default: All.

3

Created by

Filter the list by task creator. Options include:

  • All

  • All usernames of users who created tasks.

Default: All.

4

Search

Enter a task name in the field and select the search (  ) button. The table updates based on your entry.



Task table

5

Task details

This text includes the following information about the task:

  • Task type—Name of the task type.

  • Task Competed—Date and time when the task was completed.

  • Run by—User name of the user who ran the task.

  • Created By—User name of the user who created the task.

  • Last Edited By—User name of the most recent user to edit the task.

  • Recipients—Number of recipients.

A green check mark (  ) indicates that the last running of the task was successful.

Read-only.

6

View Details

Opens the Task Details pane, which contains read-only information about the selected task.


7

Go To Setup

Opens the Task Setup screen with the selected task highlighted.

This button is unavailable for tasks that have been deleted on the Task Setup screen.

8 Showing ___ out of ___ items Text that describes the number of displayed tasks out of the total number of created tasks. Read-only.
9

Page navigation controls

The central buttons indicate the number of pages. The highlighted button indicates which page you are viewing. Either select a page number button or use the previous and next buttons to navigate through the pages. If there is only one page of tasks, the previous and next buttons are unavailable.

Task Details pane

10

General details

Displays general details for the selected task.

Read-only.

Task details vary depending on the selected task.

11

Recipients

Displays the following information for recipients:

  • User name—User name of the recipient.

  • Email Address—Email address of the recipient.

  • Copy (  ) button—Copies the user name, which you can paste into other fields.

This section appears only if you configured the task to send notifications to recipients.

12

Process Details

Displays detailed information about the process for the scheduled task.

To copy this information, select Copy Details (  ). You can then paste this information into text files, documents, or email messages.

Tip: The Copy Details feature is especially helpful for capturing information for tasks that failed. You can quickly copy-and-paste this information and share it with the appropriate users.



Quick Reference Video

The following video shows you how to work with the Task Log screen.