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My ultimate goal is to have the ability to DAISY CHAIN Automated Schedules (tasks) much like you can do via SQL (SMSS).  As far as I can tell the ability to daisy chain multiple tasks DOES NOT exist in Acumatica (within AUTOMATION SCHEDULE). 

 I have the need properly launch multiple schedules tasks that are dependent on each other.   I need to know start and end time of a given task in order to do this correctly since daisy chain is NOT an option.  How do I display FINISH time in either the AUTOMATION SCHEDULE STATUSES and AUTOMATION SCHEDULE HISTORY screens?

 

The ability to daisy chain tasks would be great for Acumatica to have, I’ll create an idea assuming that the functionality doesn’t currently exist.  Anybody got any bright ideas on how to handle?

Best answer by stephenbologna39

Hi @hmarambio and @nboini 

I would suggest looking into Business Events.  Business Events allow you set up automations triggered by an Automation Schedule, and execute multiple Subscribers (ie Tasks) in sequence.  You can also tell Acumatica not to execute the second task if there is a problem executing the first one, which is a big advantage over staggered Automation Schedules.

This only works as advertised if the data needed to perform each task is known when the Business Event is triggered.  If, for example, the data needed to complete Task 2 is not known until after Task 1 is completed, you will need to use two Business Events.

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Anyone else found a solution to attach mutiple tasks under one Automation Schedule.

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Hi @hmarambio and @nboini 

I would suggest looking into Business Events.  Business Events allow you set up automations triggered by an Automation Schedule, and execute multiple Subscribers (ie Tasks) in sequence.  You can also tell Acumatica not to execute the second task if there is a problem executing the first one, which is a big advantage over staggered Automation Schedules.

This only works as advertised if the data needed to perform each task is known when the Business Event is triggered.  If, for example, the data needed to complete Task 2 is not known until after Task 1 is completed, you will need to use two Business Events.

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Thank you for your reply, Stephen . We are looking into creating Business Events. 

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