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title: "Automate SharePoint jobs with the scheduler"
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last_updated: "2026-06-01T16:54:29.762Z"
description: "Learn to automate job scheduling in SharePoint to enhance performance and prevent document locking effectively."
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# Automate job scheduling in SharePoint

The scheduler allows you to run jobs automatically at specific times daily, weekly, monthly or on a specific date. Most people choose to run their jobs during off peak hours to avoid users inadvertently locking documents that Tagging may need for processing and to avoid negatively affecting their SharePoint performance.![](@/assets/guides/document-searchability/tagging/image162.png)

To run the job on a schedule:

1. Set **How do you want to run this job?** to **On a Schedule**![](@/assets/guides/document-searchability/tagging/image163.png)

2. This is a human readable description of the schedule settings selected. It is automatically updated whenever you make a change to any of the settings described below.![](@/assets/guides/document-searchability/tagging/image164.png)

3. Choose when you want to run the job.
   1. Select a **Start** time. Either
      - type in the time directly, or
      - select the time using the drop down menus![](@/assets/guides/document-searchability/tagging/image165.png)

   2. **Daily** – Select this if you want to run the job every day or every ‘x’ number of days at the time specified above. Set the value for ‘x’ in the **Every** field.![Graphical user interface Description automatically generated with low confidence](@/assets/guides/document-searchability/tagging/image166.png)

   3. **Weekly** – Select this if you want to run the job weekly on specific days. Choose which days to run the job by checking the appropriate checkboxes under the **Every** field.![Graphical user interface, application, Word Description automatically generated](@/assets/guides/document-searchability/tagging/image167.png)

   4. **Monthly** – Choose this if you want to run the job monthly on specific dates or days of the week.![](@/assets/guides/document-searchability/tagging/image168.png)

      - Select which month(s) you want to run the job. Choose _Select all months_ to run the job each month
      - Either, select which date(s) of the selected month(s) you want to run the job
      - Or, select whether you want to run the job on the first, second, third, fourth of a particular week day of the selected month(s).![](@/assets/guides/document-searchability/tagging/image169.png)![](@/assets/guides/document-searchability/tagging/image170.png)![](@/assets/guides/document-searchability/tagging/image171.png)

   5. **One time** – select this if you want to run the job only once on a specific date and time.![Graphical user interface, text, application Description automatically generated](@/assets/guides/document-searchability/tagging/image172.png)

4. Choose whether you want to repeat running the job every ‘x’ minutes or hours after the specified date(s)/time(s) above. You can also specify until what time to repeat.![](@/assets/guides/document-searchability/tagging/image173.png)![](@/assets/guides/document-searchability/tagging/image174.png)

5. Specify whether you want the schedule to expire or not.![](@/assets/guides/document-searchability/tagging/image175.png)

6. Update this to view the next ‘x’ scheduled times (from the current time) that the job will run based on the scheduler settings specified.![](@/assets/guides/document-searchability/tagging/image176.png)

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## Related pages

- [Optimize Document Searchability with effective tagging](/guides/document-searchability/tagging/using-tagger.md)
- [Email alerts for document job statuses](/guides/document-searchability/tagging/using-tagger/alerts.md)
- [Track document tagging jobs easily with our dashboard](/guides/document-searchability/tagging/using-tagger/dashboard.md)
- [Create jobs easily using the dashboard wizard](/guides/document-searchability/tagging/using-tagger/creating-a-job.md)
- [Optimize document tagging settings for searchability](/guides/document-searchability/tagging/using-tagger/document-settings.md)
- [How to efficiently delete jobs from your dashboard](/guides/document-searchability/tagging/using-tagger/deleting-a-job.md)
- [How to edit job settings from the dashboard](/guides/document-searchability/tagging/using-tagger/editing-a-job.md)
- [Streamline SharePoint library setup with Tagging](/guides/document-searchability/tagging/using-tagger/job-settings.md)
- [Configure email server settings for alerts](/guides/document-searchability/tagging/using-tagger/email-settings.md)
- [Enhance document searchability with metadata extraction](/guides/document-searchability/tagging/using-tagger/metadata.md)
- [Efficiently run and analyze SharePoint jobs](/guides/document-searchability/tagging/using-tagger/running-a-job.md)
- [Optimizing the Tagger.config file settings](/guides/document-searchability/tagging/using-tagger/config-file.md)