Create Event Dialog Help

This dialog allows you create a new Event or modify an existing one.

It dialog contains a few tabs to allow to define parameters of the Event such as schedule, action, comment.

Depending on a database engine you can see different set of options.

The first tab-panel is named “Event” and contains main properties of the Event.

• Name - name of the event.
• Database - database, this event will be created for. Empty for server event (Valentina only).
• Schedule - select among two kinds: One-time and Repeat.

One-time kind shows At property to specify exact time when event should be executed.

Repeat shows two properties Starts and Ends, both optional to specify a timeframe, when an event can be executed.

• Interval and Unit - for repeating event means interval between event execution, for one-time - interval, which will be added to At value.
• Enabled - event will be executed at specified time.
• Preserve - if checked, executed event will not be deleted.

Additionally to manual input, special calendar popup can be used to specify timestamp values:

Details about other tabs you can read here:

• Event Dialog - Action Tab Help
• Event Dialog - Comment Tab Help
• Event Dialog - SQL Preview Tab Help