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Best approach to fire a plugin on a schedule

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Posted on by Stuie 255

Hi

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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    Kalpavruksh D365 CoE Profile Picture
    Kalpavruksh D365 CoE 2,545 on at

    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.

    If found useful, please mark this answer as verified.

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    Kokulan Profile Picture
    Kokulan 18,054 on at

    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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    Guido Preite Profile Picture
    Guido Preite 54,086 Moderator on at

    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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