Hi Tony,

check if the task is configured with the correct domainnam in the Umbracosettings.config file (can be found in the Config folder of Umbraco). In my case. Also check if the configured url can be accessed in the browser. The scheduled task in Umbraco requires that the site is running. I usually let pingdom or any other ping servers ping my site every hour to make sure its alive

Hope that helps,.

Richard

  <scheduledTasks>
    <!-- add tasks that should be called with an interval (seconds) -->
    <!--    <task log="true" alias="test60" interval="60" url="http://localhost/umbraco/test.aspx"/>-->
    <task log="false" alias="CMSImportScheduler" interval="60" url="http://umbracov47pro.local/umbraco/plugins/CMSImport/Handlers/ScheduleTaskHandler.ashx" />
  </scheduledTasks>

OK, that was wrong. (Installed locally before being moved to the developemnt server.)  I've made the change (and restarted the site etc - overkill, I know) but still it has not run.

HI Tony,

There can be a delay (depending on the umbraco version) of a few minutes. It's depending on the internal scheduler of Umbraco. Wait a few minutes (make sure the site is running) then it should run and in production use a tool like http://www.pingdom.com/ to ping your so the site will always be up.

Thanks,

Richard

The site is running.

I've changed the shchedule to hourly.  That'll give it the best part of 30 minutes to catch up with itself.  We'll see how it looks after noon.

Great Tony,

In case that doesn't work I can create a small fix that includes a Timer that I will use for another package I'm working on. It's not tested in anger yet but I think it's more reliable than the current scheduler in Umbraco. And it's just a matter of dropping a dll (and deleting it if it doesn't work).

Please let me know the results,

Thanks,

Richard

That's now gone past two hour marks and still has not run

Strange, nothing in the Dialog? and the site was running? Anything in the Umbracolog table?

Nothing in the Umbracolog table (relvant to this).  The example you gave above, does have log set to false.

Dialog? This?

Did you rest IIS after changing the config file? It coulkd be that it's cached.

I stopped the site. And rcycled the Application Pool.  Then restarted the site.  I felt that should be thorough enough. Is there something else you would suggest I could do?

Nope that should work. If you want I can create a seperated DLL for you that contains a different timer, independed of the Umbraco one?

If that's what it's going to take, then that's what it'll need to be

I don't know normally it takes some time to execute the tasks but it will always run. But I will create the hotfix for you and let you know when it's done via this thread.

One more question.Did accessing the ashx handler directly also not execute? That is strange since that is looking for scheduled items and will process those directly.

No.  Still nothing (or previously). 

Do you think it's worth trying to reinstall?

No that would not solve anything. But did you run http://yourdomain.com/umbraco/plugins/CMSImport/Handlers/ScheduleTaskHandler.ashx That should start the import process if you have something scheduled. 

Ah there is one thing that comes to mind. Can you check the CMSImportScheduledItems table do you see a record with InProgress set to true? It could be that either you file is really big and it is still running or it could be set to true and then the Site was reset so it never finished. CMSImport will check this during because of some issues it had on clustered servers where various processes started and started emailing people.

Hope that is the issue. Sorry for not thinking about this sooner. And it reminds me to add a warning to the dialog about this.

Thanks,

Yes, I opened the handler - a couple of times

Funnily enough I was just looking in the database that table has:

47    2    2012-07-12 14:10:00    NULL    1

So, yes it sould seem to be inprogress.  This is a 500k csv with 30 lines.  I hope that's not really big,  So, should I clear this table?

Set it to false and then call the handler directly first please just to ensure that some schedule task is executed then you can test it with the normal timer.

Set to false.  Called the handler. It is now InProgress as true.  Has done for about ten minutes

How many records does the file contain?

29. If I run the process directly it takes 18 seconds

Based on something you said before, I'm going to change the file location to the URL

No difference

Thanks Tony for your patience and helping finding the bug. It's solved now and part of the 2.2.1 release(just added to our.umbraco.org).

Thanks again,

Richard

I wrote an exampel about it , check it out and maybe it will help.

https://www.metamatrix.se/aktuellt/building-an-umbraco-schedule-task/

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