Programmatic creation of a new Batch

Tony

If during an export script I check my database and find that a record already exists I will not want to save it. I will instead want to write that document (PDF) to a different Batch job called DocumentExceptionBatch.  How do I create the Batch programmatically and move documents into it?

Any assistance is appreciated.

[Deleted User]

One solution would be to flag the documents once you find out they already exist in your destination.  Then you could have a "Spawn Batch" activity to move any flagged documents to another batch and/or process.

Tony

This just might do what I need.  I'm off to give it a try . . .

Thank you for responding.  I will let you know how it works out.

Bradley

Tony,

Here a code snippet I'm using from another activity. It's not finished(you can tell by the comments in it) but it should get you on the right path for creating one in your script.

'Created at the beginning of a class declaration

Private RepositoryId As Guid = Guid.Empty

        Public Sub New(RepositoryId As Guid)

            Me.RepositoryId = RepositoryId

        End Sub
        'some Class code follows to the end of the class

'End of class

'Use in your custom subroutine

        Dim gdb As New GrooperDb(RepositoryId)

        If (gdb.Connect(GrooperDb.ConnectOptions.ConnectOnly) = False) Then Return Nothing

        Dim root As GrooperRoot = gdb.Root

        'Dim batch As Batch = root.NewChild(GetType(Batch))

        Dim bch As Batch = root.BatchProcessing.Batches.Production.NewChild(GetType(Batch))

        'Perform your custom work here

        'Assign a batch process and starting step

            Dim bchProcess As BatchProcess = gdb.Root.BatchProcessing.Processes.Published("Name of batch process")

            Dim processStep As BatchProcessStep = bchProcess.Steps(0)

            bch.ApplyBatchProcess(bchProcess, processStep)

            bch.Status = GrooperDb.ProcessingStatus.Ready

        'Set batch status to Processing
         bch.Status = GrooperDb.ProcessingStatus.Ready

        'Save batch to database and kick off process

        gdb.SaveChanges()
'End of subroutine