Controlling the Scheduling of Alma Scheduled Jobs
The job scheduling mechanism provides flexibility in controlling the frequency and timing of scheduled Alma jobs.
Currently, the new job scheduling mechanism is available for the scheduled jobs below:
- The 'Publish bibliographic records to Primo' job of the publishing profile Publishing to Primo (Resources > Publishing > Publishing Profiles)
- Borrowing Activity Report Job (Configuration > Fulfillment > General > Fulfillment Jobs Configuration)
- Send Courtesy Notices and Handle Loan Renewals Job (Configuration > Fulfillment > General > Fulfillment Jobs Configuration)
- The 'Synchronize' Job of all integration profiles of type 'Users' (Configuration > General > General > External Systems > Integration Profiles)
In future releases, the new job scheduling mechanism will be gradually added to additional jobs.
New Job Scheduling
You can set a job to run either hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly.
The time on which the job runs is determined by the value of the Timezone customer parameter defined for the institution.
- Open the desired job where the new scheduling mechanism is available (see above), and select the Edit Scheduling button.
- A confirmation message opens that alerts you to the fact that a new scheduling mechanism is now in place. Select Confirm.
This message appears only once. It will not appear in your subsequent uses of the scheduling mechanism.
- Schedule the frequency and timing of the job as follows:
Frequency Description Display Hourly Select this option to define a job that runs every X hours: - Select the 'Hourly' frequency.
- Select the interval at which the job will run.
- Select the time at which the first run of the job will take place.
Subsequent runs will take place at intervals defined by these conditions.
Daily Select to define a job that runs every X days: - Select the 'Daily' frequency.
- Select the interval of days at which the job will run.
- Select the first day on which the job will take place.
- Select the time of day on which the first run will take place.
Subsequent runs will take place at intervals defined by these conditions.
Weekly Select to define a job that runs every X weeks, on specific days of the week: - Select the 'Weekly' frequency.
- Select the interval of weeks at which the job will run.
- Select the days on which the job will take place.
Note: You can select more than one day, only if you selected '1 week' in the previous option. If you selected more than '1 week' in the previous option, then you can indicate only one day of week on which the job will run. - Select the time of day on which the first run will take place.
Subsequent runs will take place at intervals defined by these conditions.
Monthly Select to define a job that runs every X months, on a specific day (the 30th for example), or on a specific type of day (e.g., each first Monday of the month): - Select the 'Weekly' frequency.
- Select the interval of months at which the job will run.
- Select the day on which the job will take place (only one day within a month) OR Select a specific type of day.
- Select the time of day on which the first run will take place.
Subsequent runs will take place at intervals defined by these conditions.
- Select Done. The Edit Scheduling dialog closes.
- Click Save on the main page to save the changes you have made to the job's schedule.
The job now runs according to the modified schedule. On the Monitor Jobs page (Admin > Manage Jobs and Sets > Monitor Jobs) you can see the results of the latest run of the job according to the modified schedule.