Interrupting a running task

egoiste · Post by **egoiste** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 2:21 am

Hi,is there a way how to interrupt a running task, for example if something went wrong during the task execution?Thanks, Miro

Post by **Oleg** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:24 am

Yes of course.

You may stop the task manually:
Select the runnilng task
Click on "Stop Task" button on toolbar (with red square)

In this case RoboTask will wait execution of current step and stop the task.

Also you may "kill" the task. Just click on "Stop Task" button again.

egoiste · Post by **egoiste** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:51 am

Oleg wrote:Yes of course.

You may stop the task manually:
Select the runnilng task
Click on "Stop Task" button on toolbar (with red square)

In this case RoboTask will wait execution of current step and stop the task.

Also you may "kill" the task. Just click on "Stop Task" button again.

Oleg, but what in case the RT is moving my mouse? I cant click anything while the mouse is quickly moving here and there.

Post by **Oleg** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:20 am

You may use keyboard

Alt-T,S
Alt-T calls Task menu
S calls "Stop task" command

egoiste · Post by **egoiste** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:52 am

Oleg wrote:You may use keyboard

Alt-T,S
Alt-T calls Task menu
S calls "Stop task" command

What if the RT windows is closed or does not have focus? If RT is doing something, it may be impossible to switch to its window.

Post by **Oleg** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:27 pm

What if the RT windows is closed or does not have focus? If RT is doing something, it may be impossible to switch to its window.

This is hypothetical case.
When you lock the keyboard and mouse (in fact) you always can terminate RoboTask process by task manager:
Press CtrL-Alt-Del
Select the task manager
Choose RoboTask in process list
Click "End Process" button

Also, do you know that system ignores mouse and ceyboard events in loched session? You may simply lock the console ( Win-L) and wait until the task will be completed. All mouse and keyboard actions will have no effect in this case.

ibk5150 · Post by **ibk5150** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:14 am

If you're running one task for a specific project, as I am, you can do the following: Create another task
Add > Task Commands > Stop Task.

It will ask for the name of your task. Select it on the drop down.
Now go to Triggering Events tab and put a hotkey on it. Now, whenever
my task goes awry, I just hit my hotkey and it will stop the task.

Hope this helps.