Job Queue Start Time Issue in Business Central

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Posted on by Jose.D.Cardenas

I've noticed that jobs that run for longer than 1 minute in the Job Queue are having their next start time set to later than the Start Time assigned to the Job. for example if the job is set to run everyday with a start time of 1:00 PM and the job takes 1 hour to run, the next time the job runs will be tomorrow at 2:00 PM and then the next time it runs will be the following day at 3:00 PM (assuming it takes an hour to complete every time it runs). Attached are pics of the current job setups as well as the log entries for the last few days.

Is there any setting combination that will result in the job always running at the specified start time and not slowly creeping later and later in the day?

Thanks,

Jose

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Jose.D.Cardenas 5 on at

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RE: Job Queue Start Time Issue in Business Central

Hi Inge,

This resolved my issue. Thank you so much for your help!

Best,

Jose
Jose.D.Cardenas 5 on at

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RE: Job Queue Start Time Issue in Business Central

Hi Amit,

Thank you for the information, but neither link provided a solution.

Best,

Jose
Jose.D.Cardenas 5 on at

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RE: Job Queue Start Time Issue in Business Central

Hi Inge,

I will try this...thanks for the suggestion!

Best,

Jose
Amit Baru 3,029 on at

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RE: Job Queue Start Time Issue in Business Central

Hi,

Adding info-:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/admin-job-queues-schedule-tasks

Regards

Amit Sharma

www.erpconsultors.com
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Inge M. Bruvik 1,023 Moderator on at

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RE: Job Queue Start Time Issue in Business Central

What happens if you put 1D in the next run date formula? Instead of using minutes between runs?
Jose.D.Cardenas 5 on at

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RE: Job Queue Start Time Issue in Business Central

Hi there,

Attached are the current settings for this job as well as a pic of the log entries. You'll see on the log entries that the Start Time of the job creeps later and later every time the job is run and starts exactly the amount of time it took to run the job the last time instead of the defined start time.

Best,

Jose
Amit Baru 3,029 on at

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RE: Job Queue Start Time Issue in Business Central

Hi,

Adding info:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-job-queue

Regards

Amit Sharma

www.erpconsultors.com
Chris BCH 20 on at

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RE: Job Queue Start Time Issue in Business Central

Having similar issue, the earliest start time is falling into the past and the job never gets triggered, happening more and more often
YUN ZHU 81,912 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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RE: Job Queue Start Time Issue in Business Central

Hi, It looks like you are missing the attachment.

In addition, the recurrence settings of the Job queue are controlled by the fields in the following.

Maybe you have set up some kind of calculation in Next Run Date Formula?

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

ZHU
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Inge M. Bruvik 1,023 Moderator on at

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RE: Job Queue Start Time Issue in Business Central

Can you please share screenshots of how you have configured your job?