Hello all.

I have a Visual Cron Job with a Task that executes a program. The task normally runs without any paramters. However, we have a need to run the task with paramters for special processing. Instead of having the users access the Visual Cron Client I want to create an application (DotNet C#) and use the API to run the task with the paramters. I am new at using the API. I have been able to connect, get the correct job and task, and run it. But even though I have theTask.Execute.Arguments = "arg1,arg2", the task is run without passing the paramters to the executable.

There are other ways to accomplish this but I was hoping to do it with the Visual Cron API, mostly because it will always have the correct location of the executable which changes with each new release. I thought about creating a new Job/Task and copy the values from the existing Job/Task, which will probably work, but...

So the short question is; can I use an existing Job/Task and have it pass some arguments that I set to the executable?

Thanks.
Mike

Edited by user Thursday, August 25, 2011 12:51:52 PM(UTC)  | Reason: added solved to title

Thank you Henrik for the quick response and help. One more question. Do I need to do something between the
Server.Jobs.Tasks.Update(mytask) and the
Server.Jobs.Tasks.Run(myjob,mytask,false)
?

I don't think the job/task is running. In the log file, I see the Task Update, but no Job or Task Started or completed or any errors. And no output from the exectubale.

Thanks Again
Mike

Update: Running local works just fine. It seems to be only when running remote.


WOW, that was super fast. Thank. Yes it does run when the Update is commented out. It seems that one or the other work but not both.
This is my test app.


var vClient = new Client();
var vServer = new Server();
var vConnection = new Connection();
vConnection.ConnectionType = Connection.ConnectionT.Remote;
vConnection.UserName = "topsecret";
vConnection.Port = 16444;
vConnection.Address = "phxvs57";
vConnection.UseADLogon = true;
vConnection.ClientType = ClientConnectionClass.ClientT.APIClient;
vServer = vClient.Connect(vConnection, true);

var jobs = vServer.Jobs.GetAll();

var job = jobs.Where(j => j.Name == "Test - Journaling - EU").FirstOrDefault();
if(job == null)
return;

var task = job.Tasks.Where(t => t.Name == "Test - EU - Journaling Task").FirstOrDefault();
if( task == null)
return;

task.Execute.CmdLine = task.Execute.CmdLine;
task.Execute.Arguments = @"/StartDate:2011814 /EndDate:20110818";
job.NotStartIfRunning = true;

vServer.Jobs.Tasks.Update(task);
vServer.Jobs.Tasks.Run(job,task,true);


vServer.Disconnect();

Edited by user Wednesday, August 24, 2011 6:25:25 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Please try to set the bolSynchrous flag to true in the Run method. The problem is that the remote connection method is slower. And if not a Synchrous run is being made there is a risk that you close the connection before the actual Run command is sent. I guess you are running the command from a console application or other application that just exists after this command.

Thanks for the feedback!