Best way to run a procedure every 3 hours

[seanh]

Hey All

Whats the best way to schedule a procedure to run say every 3 hours?
Or daily?

I’m sort of thinking Windows Task Scheduler, but I’m not sure?

Sean H

[brahn]

I had a need for similar but ended up solving it with a windows service and .net job scheduling thing https://www.hangfire.io, in fact I think I did a topic about it on here somewhere.
The Windows scheduler evaluated as too hard, not flexible or suitable to what I knew I would end up needing.
I wouldn’t rule it out of course, just depends what suits you best.

[brahn]

This one:

.NET Windows Service to complement a Clarion Desktop Application

So, I have a need for a something to run background tasks. Ideally I would like to configure Point-to-Site VNet connections for each database and centralize things in Azure somewhere (Azure functions anyone?!) but that hit against the reality and logistics of different organisations and their policies pretty quickly Windows task scheduler was considered but the idea was dropped pretty quickly. It could be made to work I suppose but setup configuration and maintenance looks like a…

[seanh]

I think I’ll try the windows scheduler for now and see how it goes.
If that proves a pain I’ll look into a service of some form