Automation for Actinic now allows you to use a faster approach to checking for orders on your website.
To use this approach you need to tick Only run tasks if orders have been placed on the Task to run page (after editing a task on the Scheduler page Options in Automation for Actinic).
This will now look for orders directly from your website(s) and if orders have been found then run Actinic.
There maybe times when your website can't be contacted with Automation for Actinic (directly). If a website can't be contacted during the defined time out period (and number of retries) Actinic is run to download the order information.
If this is a persistent problem then you can configure how your websites are checked for.
NOTE: You should only do this if you have a persistent problem as this can make Automation for Actinic not respond for a long time (e.g. if you set the timeout to 10 minutes rather than the default 30 seconds).
You can configure how a website is checked for and handled using the registry settings discussed below:
1 Run the registry editor (Hold the Windows key and press R. Then type regedit and press Enter).
2 Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mole End\V8\Utilities\RemoteFileCheck
NOTE: (change V8 for the version of Actinic that you are using).
3 The length of time (in seconds) to wait for before assuming that the website connection has timed out
FTPCheckWait registry value is the number of seconds to wait for before assuming that the connection to the webserver has timed out. The default value is 30 (seconds).
4 The number of times to re-try each website (if timed out)
FTPCheckWaitTries registry value is the number of tries (after timing out) before giving up checking for orders. The default value is 1.
5 Whether Actinic is called if the website is failed to be connected to
FTPActionFailure registry value is whether to run Actinic to download orders if a timeout occurs. A value of 1 means run Actinic. A value of 0 means don't run Actinic and check for orders on the next run. The default value is 1.