Task Scheduler

Use the Task Scheduler screen to schedule frequently performed tasks and reports to run automatically. For more information on Task Scheduler screens, see Screens in the Scheduled Task wizard.

The tasks that you can schedule include:

• Reports—Distributes information about specific data via the selected delivery method. 
• Generate Rooms Forecast—Generates forecast for rooms, arrivals, departures, and guests for transient market segments.
• Generate Revenue Center Forecast—Generate a forecast for your revenue centers. 
• Generate Projected Hours—Generate a forecast for the number of hours required to meet projected business volumes.
• Generate Standard Hours—This calculates how many hours of labor each job should have used to meet actual business volumes.
• Generate Schedules—LMS generates a schedule based on labor requirement, regular schedules you may have created, each employee's required and preferred time off, and all jobs that an employee is trained to work.
• Import Forecast KBI Data—LMS has the capability of importing forecast information from external systems such as a PMS to populate forecast KBI data.
• Calculate Attendance—Runs the Employee Points Work Rules. Gives employees points when the employees' punches are outside of the established parameters. This is to record and report attendance infractions such as absenteeism, tardiness, early arrival, late departure, long breaks, and meals.
• Project Accruals—Projects benefit accruals based on the Benefit Accrual work rules for the current pay period.
• Reconcile Employees—Reconciles UniFocus employee information with information from an external system and updates accordingly. 
• Export Employee to Telliris—Runs export of employee information to third party telephonic time clock vendor. 
• Poll Telliris Time Clocks—Polls third party telephonic time clock vendor to retrieve punch data. 
• Populate Revenue Data—Generates revenue data information in the system.
• Change Reporting Week—Closes the current Reporting Week and opens the next Reporting Week.
• Open New Planning Period—Closes last week's forecast period and rolls the date forward to begin forecasting the upcoming week.
• Calculate Forecast Accuracy—Runs algorithms to calculate both system and manager revenue center forecast accuracy.

Tasks performed from this screen:

• Adding a scheduled task.
• Editing a scheduled task.
• Deleting a scheduled task.
• Running a scheduled task now.

Task Scheduler screen

This table describes the fields and controls found for this screen.