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Queueing Sites: Scheduling and AutoUpdate
(Pro version only)
Queueing is a very powerful feature for automating the operation of PageNest. Scheduling a site will download or update it at a particular time. Using AutoUpdate PageNest will visit a site at regular intervals to download the latest updates. You can set as many sites to be downloaded at one time as you like. PageNest will allocate it's downloading threads to whichever site needs them.
To set a site as Queued go into the Site Wizard (New Site or Site Properties window) for a site, check the Advanced check box and change the settings on the Schedule or Update pages.
Once you have set the options you can shut down PageNest and it will automatically start up at the scheduled date and time, perform the download and, if you've told it to, close down afterwards. There is no need to leave PageNest running (check the options below for more information).
You can see which queued operations PageNest has performed from the AutoLog page of the download status window. If the window isn't currently being shown use the menu item Downloads, Download Status Window. To see which sites are queued for download see the menu item Download, View queued sites.
Options
The Options window (menu item Options, Options, Queued sites) contains the following options for Queued sites.
If Run in background if tasks are due is checked PageNest will start automatically if tasks are due and perform downloads silently at the scheduled times. If not, any due tasks will be performed when PageNest is started.
If you are using a dial up connection there is an option to connect automatically or to ask first. Set it to connect automatically if you want PageNest to download sites during the night or early in the morning. If you're using a dial up connection it's best to set all your sites to be downloaded at the same time.
The next set of options set various timeouts. We recommend that you leave one or more timeout switched on
just in case a site causes PageNest problems. Finally there are options for what you want PageNest to
do once it has finished downloading. If you set PageNest to close the internet connection it will do this as
soon as the sites have finished downloading (and before the sites have finished being parsed.)
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