Sql Server 2008 FullText not indexing in background

Is there any way of doing an incremental population not in background? I want to create a job that will do a incremental population and when it is finished, the job will set a "end date" in a table. For now I need to have 2 jobs, one that actually stats the pop开发者_开发知识库ulation and another one that will check if the population is done every X minutes.

I guess there is no way of doing that. I just talked to a msdn guy about that. I will implement that verification in my application.