Idea - Run timers programatically

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João Melo

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Run timers programatically

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It would be goof if we could run timers via dinnamicaly via code, programatically. Something like an Action receiving a timer name as parameter.

14 Jul 2015

Elísio Simão

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Hi João,

You can do it programmatically by invoking the WakeTimer action. Every timer exposes that action. Doesn't that fullfi your purpose or were you looking for something else?

Cheers,

EMS

14 Jul 2015

João Melo

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Yes, but it's not dinamic. I want to develop a screen where I can manage every "important" timer of my app. With waketimer, I have to edit this screen every time I create a new timer.

14 Jul 2015

Nuno Rolo

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Hi João,

Still possible, you just have to get the list of timers from the entity Meta_Cyclic_Job from System.

16 Jul 2015

João Melo

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Ok, but how do I run the timer, Nuno? Like the "Run now" button in Service Center's Timers Screen.

16 Jul 2015

Nuno Rolo

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Well you have to join with cyclic_job_shared and then you set the Next_Run to the DateTime you want.

17 Jul 2015

João Melo

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Wow.. I didn't realize this!! I can't believe it. Really thank you folks.

17 Jul 2015

Daniel Martins

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As Nuno Rolo explained it's possible updating the system tables, nevertheless, would be nice to have one system action to provide that functionality.

03 Aug 2016

Pramod Jain

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There is a document about Timer which has all the information about what table\entities Timer uses . You can simply control those entities and provide a interface to insert update your job details.

Regards

-PJ-

05 Aug 2016

Pramod Jain

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There is a document about Timer which has all the information about what table\entities Timer uses . You can simply control those entities and provide a interface to insert update your job details.

Regards

-PJ-

05 Aug 2016