Pharmacy Order Discontinuation
This job is automatically scheduled by setting the Pharmacy Order Discontinuation Period option on the Practice.
The fields are as follows:
| Name | The job name |
| Description | The job description |
| Active | This schedules the job to run if checked, or prevents it from being run if unchecked. |
| Batch Size | The number of invoices to process in a single batch |
| Max Records |
The maximum number of invoices to process in a single scheduled run. Should be greater or equal to the Batch Size. |
| Minutes | See Cron Expression |
| Hours | See Cron Expression |
| Day Of Month | See Cron Expression |
| Month | See Cron Expression |
| Day Of Week | See Cron Expression |
| Run As |
Specifies the user to run the job as. This user is required to have permissions to:
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| Notify | Specifies the user or user group to notify when locking has completed. Notification only occurs when at least one invoice is processed, or errors are encountered. You may want to use a 'real' user or group of real users, or you may want to create a user such as 'Jobs Message Receiver' used only for these notifications. |
The Batch Size and Max Records fields can be used to limit resource utilisation.
Cron Expression
The Minutes and Hours fields will be populated automatically when the Pharmacy Order Discontinuation Period option on the Practice is set. The job will be scheduled to run twice during specified period.
The Minutes, Hours, Day Of Month, Month, and Day Of Week fields determine when the job is run, using a simplified version of a Cron expression:
| Field | Allowed Values | Allowed Special Characters |
|---|---|---|
| Minutes | 0-59 | , - * / |
| Hours | 0-23 | , - * / |
| Day Of Month | 1-31 | , - * ? / |
| Month | 1-12 or JAN-DEC | , - * / |
| Day Of Week | 1-7 or SUN-SAT | , - * ? / |
Note that only one of Day Of Month and Day Of Week may be specified. If one is specified, the other must be set to ?.
If you change the schedule, the new schedule will take effect immediately.
Examples
| Description | Minutes | Hours | Day Of Month | Month | Day Of Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Run every 30 minutes | */30 | * | * | * | ? |
| Run every 2 hours | 0 | */2 | * | * | ? |
| Run every 15 mins between 8am and 6pm on weekdays | */15 | 8-18 | ? | * | mon-fri |
