Hi,

Is there any way to run Application Tasks at a specific time rather than every minute/hour/month/year after the application install/update date/time?

I need to have an application run a task at 5pm once every day. Actually, it would be nice to be able to set specific run date/times rather than intervals.

Also, another issue with tasks, when updating an Application, the task's last run times are reset to never. So, every time I update an application, everything is reset to the time I updated the application rather than a continuation when the Application was first installed. This to me is an annoyance rather than a bug, maybe?

Edited September 3, 20231 yr by TDBF

1 hour ago, TDBF said:

Is there any way to run Application Tasks at a specific time rather than every minute/hour/month/year after the application install/update date/time?

Not by default imo. That will require custom coding.

Here's what I would do based on the currently available functionality.

• Set the task to run every minute
• In your execute(), check if the time is 5pm
• If it is then proceed with the rest of the code
• If not, then do nothing.

 

Unless this is a distributed application, not running in CiC, just make an executable file that you run with crontab at 5:00. 

2 hours ago, Martin A. said:

Unless this is a distributed application, not running in CiC, just make an executable file that you run with crontab at 5:00. 

This is what I ended up doing.