Profile Properties – Running External Programs

This profile property enables you to run a program (*.exe, *.com) or a batch file (*.bat, *.cmd) when starting and completing a profile. Consequently, you can shut down a database before creating a backup and restart it when finished. When starting the program the profile is halted until the program has completed. A return value (exit code) of -99 causes the profile to be aborted and no error message will be generated.

This profile property isn't available unless Expert Mode is activated.

Upon Profile Startup/Completion

The file path of the program to be started is shown in the box. Double quotes have to be inserted around the file name if parameters are included at the file name. Example: "C:\Start.exe" -a
Red highlighting indicates that the program couldn't be found.

The following buttons are available:

Open Folder icon
Select - Select new program
Remove - Remove program
Test - Start program

Start program for:

This option enables you to specify the operation during which the program is to be started. The following options are available:

Copy Operation
Copy Preview
Process Copy Preview
Filter Wizard
Command Line

Window Focus

This option enables you to specify the window focus of the program that is started.

Hidden
Normal
Minimized
Maximized
Normal (no focus)
Minimized (no focus)

Options

Abort profile if the program can't be launched for starting the profile

This option causes the profile to be aborted when the program couldn't be started for running the profile or the return value (error level) of the program is not equal to 0.

Do not run program upon profile completion if errors occurred during copy operation

This option causes the program specified upon profile completion not to be run if errors occurred during the copy operation.

Continue profile when the program has not completed shutdown after this number of seconds:

This option enables you to specify that the profile is to be automatically continued after the specified number of seconds has elapsed, even if the external program has not yet completed shutdown. You can also specify that the program be automatically ended by AllSync.