A trigger to run an InDesign javascript at regular intervals...

I have a javascript that needs to run in Adobe InDesign CS3 for Windows at regular intervals, say every five minutes. The purpose of the script is to test the latency of our production servers - it opens a test document, places an image, formats some text, closes and saves the document. At the end of the routine, it writes the elapsed time for this process to a log file which is monitored. This allows us to track the condition of the network and i/o on the servers since all of the test docs are opened across our network from a user work station. The script itself works very nicely but I'm looking for a way to trigger it at a timed interval. I be interested to hear any ideas the group has on how this can be done. Thanks in advance, Will

In CS5, you can use idleTask to run the script using ExtendScript.
Here's a tip on one way to go about it in AppleScript:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=586719
Harbs

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