Hi,

If your scheduledjob inherits from EPiServer.BaseLibrary.Scheduling.JobBase, then you are able to set ScheduledJobId guid property. EPiServer check if your job extends JobBase and use this Id.

Did you tried this?

    [ScheduledPlugIn(DisplayName = "My scheduled job")]
    public class TestScheduledJob: JobBase
    {
        public TestScheduledJob()
        {
            this.ScheduledJobId = new Guid("7A3B7C7F-BE79-45E4-BCC1-C18A2930572F");
        }

        public override string Execute()
        {
            return string.Empty;
        }
    }

Hi Grzegorz,

I have tried that and unfortunately it doesn't work. The reason is that setting ScheduledJobId for JobBase does not actually set the ID property for the ScheduledJob object. And the ID property is used when either updating or creating a new scheduled job in ScheduledJobRepository:

/// <summary>
/// Saves job information or creates a new job
/// 
/// </summary>
public virtual void Save(ScheduledJob job)
{
  if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(job.Name))
	throw new DataAbstractionException("Cannot save a job without name");
  DataSet dataSet1 = ScheduledJobRepository.DataAccess.Service().List();
  DataTable dataTable = dataSet1.Tables[0];
  DataRow row;
  if (job.ID != Guid.Empty)
  {
	row = dataTable.Select("pkID='" + job.ID.ToString() + "'")[0];
  }
  else
  {
	row = dataTable.NewRow();
	row["pkID"] = (object) Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
  }
}

In the code a newly or renamed/moved scheduled job will have ID == Guid.Empty, even though you set ScheduledJobId in ScheduledJobBase.

Hi,

You are right about uage if ScheduledJobId. It's not used.

Maybe to solve your problem you could register your own version of ScheduledJobRepository with Save method overriden. Inside you will ensure that correct Id and Type was used to store the job.

public class ExtendedScheduledJobRepository : ScheduledJobRepository
    {
        internal static Injected<ServiceAccessor<SchedulerDB>> DataAccess { get; set; }

        public override void Save(ScheduledJob job)
        {
            var type = Assembly.Load(job.AssemblyName).GetType(job.TypeName, true);
            if (type.IsSubclassOf(typeof (JobBase)))
            {
                var jobBase = (JobBase) Activator.CreateInstance(type);
                var dbJob = base.Get(jobBase.ScheduledJobId);
                if (dbJob == null || dbJob.AssemblyName != job.AssemblyName  ||
                    dbJob.MethodName != job.MethodName || dbJob.TypeName != job.TypeName)
                {
                    job.ID = jobBase.ScheduledJobId;
                    var dataSet = DataAccess.Service().List();
                    var dataTable = dataSet.Tables[0];
                    var row = dataTable.NewRow();
                    row["pkID"] = (object) Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
                    row["MethodName"] = (object) job.MethodName;
                    row["fStatic"] = (object) Converter.ToIntZero((object) (bool) (job.IsStaticMethod ? 1 : 0));
                    row["TypeName"] = (object) job.TypeName;
                    row["AssemblyName"] = (object) job.AssemblyName;

                    DataAccess.Service().Save(dataSet.GetChanges());
                }
            }

            base.Save(job);
        }
    }
}

Thanks, I suppose that could be used as a workaround until the ScheduledPlugIn attribute gets a GUID property or some other out of the box solution becomes available.