Greetings!

We have a DNN module that is being used as a scheduled job. For some reason, when the site is starting up (or after installing the module), the DoWork() method is being hit. Is this standard behavior?

The job needs to run on Sunday @12pm. However it just ran when I installed it and went to a page on the website.

I need this DoWork() only to run at the scheduled time. Is this being loaded when the website is spinning up, and DNN is loading modules into itself? Is there any way to preclude this from happening?

Thanks!

Leopold,

That's not what the issue is so much. I don't care what time specifically it runs. Let's say that I want the job to run weekly, every monday. I set up like follows:

Friendly Name: Message Engine
Schedule Start Date/Time: 9/21/2015 12:00PM
Frequency: 1 Weeks
Retry Lapse Time: 1 Weeks

The job goes out on Monday, and going from Monday to Tuesday overnight, the application stops due to lack of website visitors. At 6AM on Tuesday morning, someone visits the site, which spins up IIS and DNN. When DNN loads, it seems to be loading the Message Engine module and invoking the DoWork() method.

What I did for now is set our message engine module to send me a text message when the job runs. I've also set Schedule Enabled to false, so the job shouldn't be run. In the past 12 hours I've received 8 text messages that the scheduled job has been run, even though disabled. The module is being executed over and over again, despite the scheduled job being disabled.

I disabled the job, not the scheduler. However, I found a couple of things out:

1.) There were other scheduled jobs that were poorly named that were invoking this MessageEngineModule. I removed those.

2.) The code was not invoking the Completed() method. I changed it to invoke this method.

Unfortunately, now I'm experiencing the job running, showing as [X] Completed in the log, but with this:

S: 9/23/2015 10:15:21 AM
E: 9/23/2015 10:15:22 AM
N: 1/1/1753 12:00:00 AM

Now the job is running every minute with the 1/1/1753 date. Curious! :)

And Leopold, thanks for your dedication to the DNN forums. Apologies for my non-expertise in the platform, I keep inheriting these sites, but haven't really done one from the ground up. Always playing the bug fix game. 

Thanks!