Using ice transport with regular (daily) intervals

Hi,
in SAP library is written, that the ice-transport supports an automated regular transport of Content. But the service works in a very faithless way. Additional I do not find any way how to tell the portal to execute this job every day.
Is there anyone who can help me to solve this problem?
Can you give me an advice where I can find log-information on this?
Thanks
Janko

Hi,
thanks for your replies. These documentations I have already read. But nowhere is described how to create a periodic job. My problem ist that the job is running one time after creating. After this nothing will be copied.
The Pull-configuration of my delivery rule is configured like this:
x Pull
Schedule 
Start Date  07/21/2007
Stop Date  7/27/2027
Start Time  05:00:00
Duration     7 Minutes
Specific Days 
Of Week      
  x Mon    x Wed    x Fri    x Sun
  x Tue    x Thu    x Sat      
Update Interval 
At Most Every 20 Minutes
These are the configured attributes and the following log shows entries of the 1st and the 2nd run:
Info  7/22/07 5:00:06 AM  XCrawlerService  Crawler ICE Syndicator - Delta Crawler deleted 
Info  7/22/07 5:00:06 AM  ICE  Handling of ICE payload finished 
Info  7/22/07 5:00:06 AM  XCrawlerService  Crawler ICE Syndicator - Delta Crawler finished - provided 2 documents - 0 errors 
Info  7/22/07 5:00:03 AM  XCrawlerService  Crawler ICE Syndicator - Delta Crawler started (no delta) 
Info  7/22/07 5:00:01 AM  ICE  Handle ice-get-package request 
Info  7/22/07 5:00:01 AM  ICE  Handling ICE payload 
Info  7/22/07 5:00:01 AM  ICE  Handling HTTP request 
Info  7/22/07 5:00:01 AM  ICE  Handling HTTP request 
Info  7/21/07 5:00:17 AM  ICE  Handling of ICE payload finished 
Info  7/21/07 5:00:16 AM  XCrawlerService  Crawler ICE Syndicator - Crawler deleted 
Info  7/21/07 5:00:16 AM  XCrawlerService  Crawler ICE Syndicator - Crawler finished - provided 2 documents - 0 errors 
Info  7/21/07 5:00:13 AM  XCrawlerService  Crawler ICE Syndicator - Crawler started (no delta) 
Info  7/21/07 5:00:02 AM  ICE  Handle ice-get-package request 
Info  7/21/07 5:00:02 AM  ICE  Handling ICE payload 
Info  7/21/07 5:00:02 AM  ICE  Handling HTTP request 
Info  7/21/07 5:00:02 AM  ICE  Handling HTTP request 
The transport from 21st ran. But on 22nd of july (the 2nd run of periodic execution) nothing has happened. Nowhere this problem is described. The document we have to copy/reset is an xml-form. So I can't use the reports in KMs Toolbox. This copy-service manipulates the xml-document so that it won't be shown as a form any more.
Greets
Janko

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