Managing Your Batch and Scheduled Apex Processes with Relax
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The document discusses the 'Relax' tool developed by Zach McElrath, which simplifies the management of scheduled and batch apex processes in Salesforce. It allows users to activate, deactivate, and mass edit scheduled apex jobs quickly, and run sequences of batch apex jobs without extensive coding. 'Relax' is available as a free and open-source tool that can be installed from the AppExchange.
Managing Your Batch and Scheduled Apex Processes with Relax
- 1. Relax Effortlessly manage your Batch and Scheduled Apex processes Zach McElrath, Skuid, Lead Developer @zachelrath
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- 3. Testing the waters Have you ever… ▪ Written Scheduled Apex? • Tried to deploy Scheduled Apex between orgs, and had to manually delete each Scheduled Job, 1-by-1, then recreate them, 1-by-1? ▪ Written Batch Apex? • Tried to run a sequence of Batch Apex jobs one after the other? • Wished you could run a sequence of Batch Apex jobs every 15 minutes, every day --- without recoding the “sequence keep-alive” logic in the finish() method of every Batch Apex class?
- 4. Relax lets you… 1. Manage your individually-Scheduled Apex jobs ▪ Activate/deactivate en masse, deploy via data loader, mass edit 2. Run scheduled sequences of Batch Apex jobs, as often as every 5 minutes, every day, without writing any additional code 3. Easily reuse common Batch Apex code
- 5. DEMO 1: Mass-schedule, deactivate, and activate a group of Scheduled Apex Jobs with Relax
- 6. Standard method for scheduling an Apex job: 1 by 1
- 7. Standard method for managing jobs: 1 by 1
- 8. Hassles with standard scheduled job management 1. Jobs have to be created 1-by-1 2. Jobs have to be unscheduled 1-by-1 in order to: 1. Make changes to any code that is referenced by a job’s Apex Class 2. Deploy changes to code that referenced by a job’s Apex Class 3. Change the Apex Class associated with a job
- 9. The Relax alternative: mass-management of jobs
- 10. Individually-scheduling an Apex Class with Relax 1. Enter Job Name 2. Pick an Apex Class that implements the Schedulable interface 3. Enter Cron Schedule
- 11. DEMO 2: Create an ordered sequence of Relax Jobs that Relax will run every minute
- 12. Batchable Apex class that Relax can schedule
- 13. (another) Batchable Apex class that Relax can schedule
- 14. Batch Apex, scheduled with Relax
- 15. DEMO 3: Use Relax Job parameters to rapidly create scheduled, batch Mass Update jobs
- 16. Leveraging Relax Job Parameters: Mass Update
- 17. How do I get my hands on this??? Relax is free and open-source! 1. Install from AppExchange (bit.ly/install-relax) 2. Contribute / enhance via Github (bit.ly/about-relax) ▪ Disclaimer: I have a full-time job at Skuid. And, hopefully, a life.