Welcome!! To get started, use the 'Getting Started' section in the help file
IMPORTANT!! Always Backup your data after you have setup all your tasks and schedules
If you need a feature that is not supported by the software, please feel free to suggest it to us.  Almost 100% of this softwares features are user suggestions, or improvements done due to users having issues
The debug log located in the Logs menu helps to determine the cause of a task failure, i.e. user input error, system or other issue  
This sofware is a 100% java based program. The same program runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris, Unix & MacOS! However, the installation program, testing and technical support issues are very platform/OS specific
You can run the user interface in the background as an icon on your desktop by clicking on the program icon on the front panel
All task logs are automatically trimmed back to 50% once they reach the maximum allowed size.  This lowers memory requirements and improves performance for the software
You can start the software to run as an icon on your desktop on startup.  Use the 'Settings' menu, 'Configure Panel' menuitem and select 'Desktop Icon' as the 'Startup Window'
The default user interface is a Java interface called 'Metal'.  You can change the interface to 'Windows' or 'Unix' (CDE/Motif) look and feel
Exit Code = -100 is a special output for many monitoring tasks.  This value implies that your task was successfull and some indicator/monitor has changed.
If you need to move the software to another system, and need to transfer your current data, use the backup/restore feature
Use the Task Runner feature to run this programs tasks from external programs, scripts, batch files or even other schedulers
Use the email support generator feature from the help menu to quickly send us your support issue.
Use the encrypt password feature from the 'Settings' menu, 'Configure Panel' menuitem.  This prevents the ftp, email, Database, proxy and other passwords from being visible in the Task Table
The email notification feature can send notification to multiple email addresses.  Just separate each email address by a comma ,
The output,activity and debug logs have 4 old backup copies which are rotated.  These logs are available in the 'inputs' folder and can be read by any text reader
You can set multiple schedules for each task!
More scheduling options are available by hitting the 'Options' button in the schedule box
This software supports dynamic variables.  The task fields that support dynamic variables are indicated by $
You can use the Backup/Restore feature to transfer all the settings to another system
You can set task parameters from the commandline, batch file or script using the 'Set Task Parameters' feature
You can run tasks from the commandline, batch file or script using the 'Task Runners' feature
You can add, set and get dynamic variables from the commandline, batch file or script using the 'Add/Get/Set Variables' feature
You can consolidate the output, activity, and debug log into a single output log
You can set your default system browser to be the browser for the help menu's
All tasks are multithreaded which allows multiple instances of the same task to run simultaneously.  To prevent overlapping schedules, use the 'Synchronization' feature
When you stop the engine, you can set it to wait for all running tasks to finish before shutting down.  Use the Scheduler Settings menuitem
By default, when the user interface is started, it will automatically check and launch the engine if it is not running.  You can prevent this using the Scheduler Settings menuitem
More tasks and features can be added on using the Addon feature
The NT service module is available as an optional addon for windows users who wish to run the software as a NT service
The commandline module is available as an optional addon for users who need to remotely control the engine via the commandline