Hi All,
The DNN Scheduler is not as well know as the other modules, maybe because it is not that easy to use?
Is it not possible to configure it in a way that you can enter the hour that a job must start? (I rahther run heavy jobs when there are less users working)
I know, due to the way IIS works, that you can not rely on the exact time a job was run and that you need a request before the site (and its jobs) wakes up and realy does something.
BUT: i think it must be possible to say you want a job running at 11h at night. Of course this will not happen until someone does a request to the site, and even if someone was, the chance that it is at excactely 11h will be very small.
To Solve the 'i need a request' issue you can use tools like smartping ( http://help.smartertools.com/SmarterPing/v1/Default.asp ), which periodacely pings the sites you want. (you need a server to run this on which is online 24/24) , So if you let this ping every 10 minutes, and you can configure the job to run at 11h than it will start 11.10h at the latest.
This is a very acceptable solution for most schedule applications.
So here's the real question: Is the core-team considering this enhancement? Or is is this already possible in some way (using the standard framework)
(I'll be glad to help on this topic)