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How to create a Background Process

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How to create a Background Process

Background Processes are Processes that are executed without the direct action of the user. There can be set different rules to schedule when the process is executed.

This document discusses about the Openbravo infrastructure for Background Processes. How to define, schedule and monitorize Background Processes.

Defining a Background Process

Background Processes are defined in the window General Setup || Process Scheduling || Process Request. First you select in the field Process the process to execute and in the field Timing when it will be executed.

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Depending the Timing selected there is needed to define more fields to define this timing:

Run Immediately

This timing option will execute the Background Process only time at the moment the button to schedule the process is pressed. After it has been scheduled, it can be rescheduled as many times as needed.

This option is very similar to executing a process from a menu option. The difference is that when scheduling a Run Immediately Background Process, there will not be any pop-up that indicates when the execution finished and instead it will be registered its execution in the Process Monitor.

Run Later

This option is similar to the previous option. In this case the Background Process will be executed only one time in one moment in the future.

The moment when the Background Process will be executed is defined in the fields Start Date and End Date

Schedule

This is the most versatile option that allows to execute a Background Process periodically. These are the fields used to define the schedule plan of a Background Process:

Schedule and Unschedule a Background Process

After the Background Process has been completely defined it can be scheduled pressing the button Schedule Process. When a process is scheduled, it will be executed according the Timing options selected, and every execution will be registered in the Process Monitor.

To stop future executions of an Background Process just press the button Unschedule Process. After a Background Process has been unscheduled it can be scheduled again in any moment pressing the button Reschedule Process.

Monitoring executions of Background Processes

All the executions of Background Processes can be monitored in General Setup || Process Scheduling || Process Monitor.

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In this window there is one entry for each Background Process execution and the information of each execution. The most important fields are:

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