DailyTrigger object

Scripting object that represents a trigger that starts a task based on a daily schedule.

Members

The DailyTrigger object has these types of members:

The DailyTrigger object has these properties.

Property	Access type	Description
DaysInterval	Read/write	Gets or sets the interval between the days in the schedule.
Enabled	Read/write	Inherited from the Trigger object. Gets or sets a Boolean value that indicates whether the trigger is enabled.
EndBoundary	Read/write	Inherited from the Trigger object. Gets or sets the date and time when the trigger is deactivated. The trigger cannot start the task after it is deactivated.
ExecutionTimeLimit	Read/write	Inherited from the Trigger object. Gets or sets the maximum amount of time that the task launched by the trigger is allowed to run.
Id	Read/write	Inherited from the Trigger object. Gets or sets the identifier for the trigger.
RandomDelay	Read/write	Gets or sets a delay time that is randomly added to the start time of the trigger.
Repetition	Read/write	Inherited from the Trigger object. Gets or sets how often the task is run and how long the repetition pattern is repeated after the task is started.
StartBoundary	Read/write	Inherited from the Trigger object. Gets or sets the date and time when the trigger is activated.
Type	Read-only	Inherited from the Trigger object. Gets the type of the trigger.

The time of day that the task is started is set by the StartBoundary property.

An interval of 1 produces a daily schedule. An interval of 2 produces an every other day schedule and so on.

When reading or writing your own XML for a task, a daily trigger is specified using the ScheduleByDay element of the Task Scheduler schema.

For more information and a code example for this scripting object, see Daily Trigger Example (Scripting).

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows Vista [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2008 [desktop apps only]
Type library	Taskschd.tlb
DLL	Taskschd.dll