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The Aptify trusted user account that runs the scheduled task on the Application Server and creates the Process Flow Runs record. This is the user that appears in the Scheduled Task's Run as: as field. The Job Account user must have a trusted user account in Aptify with the appropriate privileges to read and edit Scheduled Tasks records, read and create permissions for Process Flow Runs and its sub-type, and execute the process flow. You can specify the same user account that is running the Application Server's Aptify Asynchronous Processor or a different user account.
Note that the Job Account Name and Password are required when using the Windows Scheduler or Remote Scheduler service.
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Depending on the security model that your organization has implemented, you may want to create a new key to encrypt this field and allow only designated users access to that key. This is the recommended approach but you should use the same key to encrypt this field that you use to encrypt the Default Job Account Password field in the Application Servers entity. See About the Application Servers Form.
See the "Field Level Encryption" section in the Entity Security chapter of the the Aptify 5.5.1 Administration Guide for for information on using Field Level Encryption. In the Aptify 5.5.1 Administration Guide, see the "Scheduling Messages for Future Delivery" section of the Bulk Messaging Configuration chapter for information on Delayed Message Delivery and the "Enabling View Scheduling" section of the Administration Services chapter for information on View Scheduling.