One of the biggest surprises of working with OnBase was when
I couldn’t find a way to run a scheduled job to execute a script. As simple as
it sounds, there’s way out of the box way to run a script when you want.
So here’s what I did to work around this:
First Solution: scheduling a scan queue sweep to fire off a VB script
Steps
- Put an empty file in a shared directory
- Set up a scan queue to sweep in the file
- Hooked the VB script to run on commit of the scanned batch which was configured to go through automatically
- Scheduled the scanning to run every 10 minutes
Outcome:
This worked ok, but was a kludge.
Second Solution: create a looping lifecycle with one doc in it that went in circles
Steps:
- Create a lifecycle with a work queue and a timer
- Add a Unity script to the timer’s action
- Add a doc to the workflow to trigger the timer and script execution
Outcome:
So far, so good
Hope this helps those of you who are stumped like me why this is not built into the product.
