Importing Schedules as part of release

[Anonymous]

Hi, I tried exporting pre-configured schedules into a release file and subsequently import the release file into the Application Server that we have set-up. I found that although the schedules and tasks were imported but all of them were missing the mapping in the Scheduled Sessions sections of the task, i.e. the Process to Resource mapping. Is there a way for this mapping to also be included as part of the release/export and import? This will be a pain point as this would mean the schedule manager will become a bottleneck in the deployment process.    

[JerinJose]

Not possible as the resources will be different in different environments.

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Jerin Jose
RPA Product SME
EY
Asia/Kolkata
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[robert.nicklin]

Hello Eugene,

I've provided a little more information below to supplement Jerin's response, I hope it's useful.

Prior to Blue Prism 6.6, scheduled session data was not included in a release when exporting a schedule, so importing a schedule from a release that was produced using Blue Prism 6.5 or earlier will never recreate scheduled sessions in any environment.

In Blue Prism 6.6 we changed system behaviour slightly so that scheduled session data is included in a release. There are certain conditions that have to be met in order to see a scheduled session created on import into an environment:

• the process used by the scheduled session must exist in the environment and be non-retired
• the resource used by the scheduled session must exist in the environment and be non-retired

This change was made so that users could effectively export a schedule at a point in time and have this act as a backup in case it needed to be restored to this state at a later point, not so that scheduled session data could be recreated in a different environment than the one the schedule was originally created in. This enhancement made under reference US-4097 should you wish to locate it in the release notes.

Regards,
Rob

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Robert Nicklin
Senior Product Owner
Blue Prism
Warrington, England
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