How To Execute a Scheduled Job In Azure Portal

Login with your Microsoft account credentials.

Select the App Services options in the menu available in Azure portal.



The “App Services” is the place, where the Web Application is deployed and hosted in Azure Services.

If you have any scheduler that has to be related to the Web Application, it can select the “Web Jobs” of that particular app Service.



Select the particular app service, click on the settings and you will get the option to see the Web Jobs portal.

In the settings panel, scroll down and find the “Web Jobs” options.



Add Web Job

There will be the option to Add Web Jobs. If you wish to edit any of the Web Jobs, you can click on the any of the Web Jobs, which are already available and all the available jobs will be displayed in the grid panel in the Web Jobs option board.



In the Add Web Job, we can find some options and their details are given below.

• Name
• File Upload
• Type
• Scale

Name

This is the name for the Web Jobs. The unique, meaningful and valid names will be shown with the “green light” image in the name text box.



File upload

This is the option to upload your files. You can either upload executable files or various sets of files like executable files with configurations and any other related files -- all those can be added to a folder and zipped and then uploaded to the Azure.

Note: Only the .Zip files can be uploaded to the web jobs.

Type of Job

This option is used to select the job execution. You can execute it continuously or based on some time or event based triggers.

Say for example, some Application has to copy the data from the file, whenever the user uploads a file, which is a continuous process. If the report has to be mailed daily at 5 PM, it can be a triggered process, based on time.



Trigger Options

As we discussed, triggered options need some time of execution and this trigger will have the option to specify the time values of an execution.



The values of time to be triggered are defined by using the “CRON” expression.

CRON Expression

NCrontab is a NuGet package, in which the CRON Expression is implemented.

CRON expression has 6 fields

• {second}
• {minute}
• {hour}
• {day}
• {month}
• {day of the week}

In the following order:

• {second} {minute} {hour} {day} {month} {day of the week}

Special operators are also supported,

• , - * /

Each value represents a point in time, say for a sample trigger event:

"8 * * * * *" - means on the 8th second of every minutes as 00:00:00, 00:01:08, 00:02:08,

Samples

0 0 14 * * * - 2PM of the day [Daily Task].
0 30 10 * * * - 10:30 AM every day.

Scale

This is to state how many instances the jobs have to be executed as “Single” or “Multi”, based on the user requirement. This can be selected.



Save the web jobs Options

On a click, the Web Jobs will be saved and will be executed on the triggered time.



Manual Execution of Web Jobs

Yes, manually you can execute any Web Jobs in Azure portal.

In the Web Jobs portal, select any of the jobs and click on the “Run” option, so the jobs are executed and also the status will be displayed as “Running” or “Completed” with the duration details.

Other information can also be retrieved from the log option available.



Conclusion

Hope this article provided a clear view on Web Jobs in Azure portal.