Last Schedule

Simple but powerful task scheduler for D365 CE

This solution (and any other solution using requiring workflows) has a huge limitation: you can't execute more than 15 jobs per 24 hours (approx. more than once per every 1,5 hour)

If you try to execute more often, platform will consider your job as infinite loop and will terminate job after 15 executions

Please contact me if you know how to overcome loop protection

Advantages:

• Recurrence jobs can share common schedules
• Uses Cron scheduling syntax
• Efficient processing and execution
• Easy job life cycle management

Installation

Please download latest version from release page and import solution as usual. It is recommended to use managed version for production environment

Usage

Open "FixRM Last Schedule" app after import:

Create a new schedule:

Recurrence pattern is given in Quartz.NET Cron syntax dialect. For simplicity you can use CronMaker online tool to generate pattern

When schedule is created, you can create recurrence job. Required fields are:

• Name. For reference only
• Schedule. Schedule created at previous step
• Process. Process to be executed when job runs
• (Optional) Query. FetchXML query to retrieve records for the job

If query parameter is provided, selected Process will be executed against each record returned by the query. If query parameter is not provided, selected Process will be executed against Job record itself

Process should be published background (asynchronous) workflow enabled to run on-demand and as child process

You also may want to configure that process to automatically delete completed jobs to save disk space

To activate job set it's status reason to "Published":

To deactivate process set status reason to back to "Draft" or deactivate job record

Known issues and limitations

• At the moment, job execution loop process can be executed multiple times for the same record. To avoid this do not change job status to "Activated" state too frequently. This will be fixed in next release
• Processes are currently not available in Unified Interface. As so you have to switch to Classic interface to manage processes. The same thing is with "Journal" tab on the Job form. We hope this limitation will be removed in the upcoming platform releases
• This is a MVP version so functionality is limited to basic tasks. More features are coming soon

Roadmap

Please vote for the upcoming features in the issues or open new one if something is missed here!

• Error tracking
• Check job parameters before publishing
• Non developer friendly schedule builder UI
• More options for logging/reporting of job results
• On demand job execution

Contributing

Please fill free to create issue if you find a bug or have an idea

PR's are welcomed but please open an Issue before doing them as it might be difficult to merge customizations