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Scheduler - Purpose

Window Book Scheduler - Purpose

The Window Book Scheduler and its plugins constitute a service designed to allow you to automate the data requirements of your particular Window Book Product. In addition, there are plugins that can be used for general purposes.

The following plugins are used to automate downloading and updating data for many Window Book products including Postal Package Partner™, DAT-MAIL™, Post Master™, DropShipIT™ and Tag Master™:

1. Process Manager: For Postal Package Partner, this can be used for FTP or HTTP Tracking as well as the Import Agent to help automate imports. For DAT-MAIL, this can be used to run the Daemon as a Service.

2. Drop Ship Data and Drop Ship Data on-Demand plugins: used by DAT-MAIL, Post Master, Postal Package Partner with Open and Distribute and DropShipIT for updating the daily DropShip data, including NDC, SCF, DDU and city/state data produced by the US Postal Service. The Data Plugin allows a regular daily update, with interval set by the user (for example, every 6 hours). The On-Demand Plugin allows an immediate update of the data upon opening the program and choice of a menu option. This should be set to run as often as possible; for example, once every 2 minutes.

3. Labeling List Data and Labeling List on-Demand plugins: used by DAT-MAIL and Tag Master for updating the Labeling List data, as published in the DMM by the US Postal Service. The Data Plugin allows a regular update, with interval set by the user (for example, once a week). The On-Demand Plugin allows an immediate update of the data upon opening the program and choice of a menu option. This should be set to run as often as possible; for example, once every 2 minutes.

4. Postal Data Updater Plug-In: used to download drop-ship/destination entry data and labeling list data from the Window Book web site, and puts that data into tables within the Window Book wbDB SQL Server database. The postal facility data and labeling list data is used by various .NET applications. The Postal Data Updater plug-in allows for substantial reporting of changes to the FAST and USPS data since the last update was downloaded.