Executing IDEAScript on a certain day every month

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dhuffman63
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Executing IDEAScript on a certain day every month

I have an IDEAScript I built that I want to have run on the 21st of every month.  Is there a way to set this up?

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Brian Element
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Joined: 07/11/2012 - 19:57

Not currently, at least not directly in IDEA.  IDEA 11.1 will have this functionality, it should be released in the next few weeks so when it does update and you can schedule scripts to run at certain times and on a recurring basis.

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Joined: 02/13/2019 - 08:41

You can try to use the Windows scheduler. I guess you can't run IDEAScripts but maybe it's possible to run a Python script and at least to connect to IDEA via win32com.client. But I haven't tested that yet. 

dhuffman63
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I'm trying to get the Task Scheduler to work but no luck yet.  Can I convert an IDEAScript to Python?  The script I built is basically a macro I recorded.

klmi
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Well it's not so hard at all. I think Brian made a YouTube video about that. You can try to search for ideascripting and python there. It's not essential to install python and pyCharm at first.

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Thanks klmi, this is the video I think you are mentioning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGntZi94Wck

Also, like I said 11.1 will have this functionality built in.  11.1 should be released in English in the next few weeks so if can wait a few weeks or a month IDEA will do it for you.

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Thank you all.  I did get the Task Scheduler to work based on the info the IDEA Help Desk provided.  Working on getting the version 11 installed and then 11.1 when available.