One of the most popular ways of scheduling background processes in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is by using the Job Queue. In this guide, you will understand how it works and how you can use it. Also, you will learn about error handling along with some general tips.
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: How to run Job Queue via AL (Debug Job Queue in Sandbox???)
Today I would like to talk about how to run Job Queue via AL.
A job queue is basically an abstraction that uses the task scheduler from the platform to enable end users to view, create, or modify jobs that are set to run in the background. These jobs can be set to run on a recurring schedule.
Part 2: How to Implement a Command Queue in pure AL
In my last blogpost I wrote about how we can implement a Command Queue in AL. In the second part I will go a little bit in detail about the Solution. First of all you have to understand the differenences between valuetypes and referencetypes. If you already know you skip to the next paragraph.
How to Implement a Command Queue in pure AL
In this article I show how to implement the command pattern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_pattern) and include it in a queue.
How to get failed job queues directly on your mail?
When I was working for the end customer, one of the daily jobs for one of the consultants, was to check if all job queues in all databases and all companies were not stopped by some error.
I thought, why cannot we get the notification whenever the Job Queue is stopped? That would save us a lot of time.
Queuing Background Tasks
I recently faced an interesting problem. The customer had production terminal at the end of a line, were the operator proceed the output. When he marked the production order as completed he clicked the button on the terminal and the request to post the output was sent to Business Central. For that I created the custom API. Nothing special.
Impossible to debug the Job Queue in NAV 2016?
I guess I am not the only one that has installed NAV 2016 running the Job Queue. If the Job Queue is running a job that causes error you are likely to start the debugger on the service tier running the Job Queue and start with a Debug Next.