Background Jobs

(new in version 2020 R1)

Introduction

Long-running tasks are managed by a Background Jobs manager : manual dashboard exports, manual data import from files, etc
If the job fails, it is retried once.
Results are communicated through the Notifications.
This allows a better handling of simultaneous exports

*Job data is retained for 1 week. After that it becomes deleted, and you cannot download your old PDF export for example.

Jobs Overview

On each tenant, there is an administration interface to ti the Jobs.
Go to Administration > Background Jobs to view :

• Execution History
• Processing Jobs that are currently running
• Enqueued Jobs that are ready to run
• Next Executions which are upcoming
  

Hangfire dashboard

For advanced administration/debugging and support, the internal background job manager exposes a dashboard.
It is called “Hangfire”, and the dashboard is available on the web page of the Back-End website of Alpana Server.

To access it, simply use your web browser to navigate on the Back-End website of Alpana Server.

Login with your Host credentials, and use the Hangfire web page to view internals of the Background Jobs.