Execute a batch with different user than submitting user

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Hi,

I want to execute a batch with different user than it schedule, basically I want to run all the batches using a service account rather individual users who scheduled the job. Also this job has to run in server

I have modified the runsImpersonated as below but this is not executing the job by specified account while I check in batch job history. Is there any way I can achieve the same

public boolean runsImpersonated()

{

RunAsPermission perm;

UserId runAsUser;

SysUserInfo userInfo;

;

runAsUser = 'xxx’;

perm = new RunAsPermission(runAsUser);

perm.assert();

runas(runAsUser,classnum(XXXX),'run');

return true;

}

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Tim Schofield on at

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Re: Execute a batch with different user than submitting user

Or you could just create a user like 'AXBATCH' and use it to create and run all your batch jobs.

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Re: Execute a batch with different user than submitting user

Creating AXBATCH is fine , however I don't want to give this particualr use for RDP access.

Basically I have to login in X user and rns the batch by Y user

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jaestevan 1,719 on at

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Re: Execute a batch with different user than submitting user

This doesn't work because this method is not intended to do that. This method is only usefull to return true or false for the Batch to be executed at server or client layer. No more.

And this is this way because the batch is not executed in that method, so you can't impersonate from there. If you want to impersonate from code (if you don't have any better solution) you have to impersonate the execution of the batch itself, that happens in the BatchRun class.

Use the debugger to put a breakpoint in this class and look at the call stack to choose the better place to put your code.

Hope this helps.

Regards.

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