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| <h1>Scheduling automatic updates</h1> |
| <p>You can configure Eclipse update to search for updates to the installed features |
| on a periodic basis automatically. You can configure how these updates |
| are scheduled and performed from the <b>Install/Update > Automatic Updates</b> preference page. |
| </p> |
| <h3>Scheduling options</h3> |
| <p>Each time an Eclipse-based product starts, the update scheduler will |
| activate based on the chosen scheduling. You can choose between the following |
| update policies:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>No automatic search</li> |
| <li>On each startup (default)</li> |
| <li>Every day at a specific time (i.e. 3:00PM) *</li> |
| <li>On a scheduled day of the week at a specific time (i.e. Monday 8:00AM) *</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>* assuming the application is active. If the application is not active at a |
| scheduled time and the search is past due, it will immediately start on the next |
| startup</p> |
| <h3>Download options</h3> |
| <p>Scheduling options define when searches are performed but do not |
| define what actually happens when updates are found. Download options |
| control this behavior (this set of options is disabled if automatic search is |
| turned off). You can choose between:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Search for updates and notify when they are available (default)</li> |
| <li>Download new updates automatically and notify when ready to install them</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>In both cases, the update scheduler will execute in the background |
| when necessary based on the scheduling options. There will be no messages if no |
| updates are found. If there are updates, the behavior will depend on the |
| chosen download option.</p> |
| <h4>Search and notify</h4> |
| <p>If search only is selected, a message box will open to notify you when updates |
| are found:</p> |
| <p><font color="#0000FF">New updates have been found for this product. Do you want to |
| download them?</font></p> |
| <p><font color="#0000FF">[Yes] [No] </font></p> |
| <p>If <b>Yes</b>b> is pressed, an update wizard will show a list of detected updates. The |
| same wizard is used when you search for updates manually using |
| <a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.update.findAndInstallUpdates")'> |
| <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.png"> |
| <b>Help > Software Updates > Find and Install...</b></a>.</p> |
| <p>If <b>No</b> is pressed, the dialog closes and the updates are ignored.</p> |
| <h4>Download new updates</h4> |
| <p>If the second option has been selected (download updates automatically), the |
| search will be scheduled as before, but when new updates are found, the |
| download will commence immediately. When all the features have been successfully |
| downloaded, a different message box will show up:</p> |
| <p><font color="#0000FF">New updates have been found and downloaded. Do you want to install them?</font></p> |
| <p><font color="#0000FF">[Yes] [No] </font></p> |
| <p>If <b>No</b> is pressed, the dialog will close and no updates will occur. |
| If <b>Yes</b> is pressed, installation of the new updates will proceed.</p> |
| <p>If you choose not to install the downloaded features, but later launch the |
| <b>Help > Find and Install...</b> wizard for updating, the downloaded files will be reused, |
| unless there are newer versions on the server or you have restarted eclipse. </p> |
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| <img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.png" alt="Related tasks" ><br> |
| <a href="tasks-36.htm">Updating features with the update manager</a><br> |
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