Apple Remote Desktop - Getting Completed Task History; Saving a Task for Later Use; Creating and Using Task Templates

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2 Select the desired task in the Remote Desktop window.
The task status and computers involved are shown in the Remote Desktop window.
3 Click the Stop button in the top-right of the main window.
Getting Completed Task History
After a task has received feedback from all the involved client computers, or they
have experienced a communication timeout, the task is moved to the History list.
The History list is located in the left side of the Remote Desktop window, and has a
disclosure triangle to expand or hide the list. This list stays populated as long as
you’ve set in the Remote Desktop preferences. The History list can also be viewed in
a separate window with the tasks sorted by date.
To view a completed task history:
To view the history in the Remote Desktop window, open the History list by using m
the disclosure triangle and select the desired task.
To view the history in a new window, choose Window > Task History. m
The nal task status and computers involved are shown in a separate window.
Saving a Task for Later Use
You may want to save a task for later, repeated use. If you nd yourself repeating
certain tasks, you can save those tasks and the information about which computers
go with them. Observe and Control tasks cannot be saved.
Saved tasks appear in a list on the left side of the Remote Desktop main window.
To save a task for later use:
1 Open the task you want to save.
For example, if you want to save a Copy Items task, select Manage > Copy Items.
2 Congure the task as desired.
3 Before executing the task, click Save.
4 Name the saved task.
The task appears in a list on the left side of the Remote Desktop main window.
Creating and Using Task Templates
In each task conguration dialog, you can save a task’s settings to a template to reuse
for future tasks of that same type. For example, if you always use certain copy options
for a Copy Items task, you can save those settings as a template, and have them
apply to any newly created Copy Items task. Once a task template is saved, you can
select any one of the saved templates from the Templates pop-up menu. Selecting a
template automatically congures the dialog box according to the saved template.