Along with User Event, Client, and Mass Update scripts, Scheduled scripts are one of the most-used scripts in NetSuite. The benefit of Scheduled scripts is that you can perform actions at a larger scale than some of the other script types, and they can be scheduled to run in the background. So if there is a task that you need to perform on all transactions created in a day or in a week, a scheduled script can take care of that.
Scheduling Options
You can schedule Scheduled Scripts to run as often as every 15 minutes and as infrequently as every year. I’m not sure of any great need to have a yearly schedule, but you may have some end-of-the-year tasks that you would like to automate and then forget about. Here’s a breakdown of the scheduling options:
- One Time: Schedule a script to run at a specific date and time in the future.
- Daily: Set up a daily schedule.
- Monthly: Set to run on a specific day of the month (like the 7th of every month) or on a specific weekday (like the first Sunday of every month).
- Yearly: Set the month and the day of the month (or specific weekday in the month).
Repeat: You can set a repeat for each schedule if you need it to repeat throughout the day you scheduled it to run. For instance, you could schedule a script to run at 8:00am every Tuesday, and you can set it to repeat every 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, 6 hours, 8 hours, or 12 hours.
End By: You could schedule these scripts indefinitely, or you could schedule them to end by a specific date.
Example Uses
- Send an email to each person who failed to complete tasks due that day
- Update a field on a transaction based on the day’s work done with that transaction
- Update custom date fields to assist in tracking things like the number of days on backorder, the length of time spent on each status of a transaction, etc.
- Automate email reminders to multiple individuals
- And so much more!
Conclusion
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