Best approach to fire a plugin on a schedule

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Posted on by Stuie

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I have some code (in a plugin) that I'd like to use to make regular housekeeping updates to my CRM.
I'm not sure a plugin is the best approach but the functionality needs to run at 15minute intervals.
Would it be better to use a Workflow?

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Guido Preite 54,087 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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RE: Best approach to fire a plugin on a schedule

you can use Azure Functions

This post will help you with the schedule: https://nishantrana.me/2017/04/29/using-azure-functions-for-writing-scheduled-jobs-for-dynamics-crm/

and this one to do a certificate based authentication: https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/crminthefield/archive/2019/05/29/certificate-based-authentication-with-azure-functions-key-vault
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Kokulan 18,048 on at

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RE: Best approach to fire a plugin on a schedule

Hi

Plugin is not used for running scheduled tasks in CRM.

You could use Workflow or Flow or combination of both to do this.

Workflow is good in executing logic in CRM but it does not have a clean scheduling mechanism. We can get around this but creating waiting workflows. Where as Flow as a built in schedule trigger.

So you could consider the following solution which executes a workflow

community.dynamics.com/.../executing-dynamics-365-workflows-from-microsoft-flow

I you would like to stick to CRM workflows, please refer to the links below

community.dynamics.com/.../scheduling-recurring-emails-using-a-workflow

blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/.../scheduling-recurring-workflows-in-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011-online-and-on-premise

gonzaloruizcrm.blogspot.com/.../quite-often-we-have-business-process.html

You may have to move your plugin code into a Custom Workflow Activity and call the in the workflow if the logic implemented using Workflow out of the box features.
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Kalpavruksh D365 CoE 2,545 on at

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RE: Best approach to fire a plugin on a schedule

Hi,

You can use a custom workflow assembly/action within workflow to achieve the same.

1. Create workflow to wait for X duration defined in the entity for the specified date i.e. Scheduled Date.

2. Create an action to perform the logic.

3. After every x duration, update the date to date+x duration.

4. Run the workflow on Scheduled Date update.

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